Gov. Kathy Hochul did the right thing last week by pulling a proposed New York Power Authority rate increase for hydropower. The authority was asking to triple its hydropower rates from $12.88 per megawatt-hours to $33.05 per megawatt hour over four years as well as make some other changes ...

Discussions over a local preservation ordinance in Jamestown will continue next week. We’re sure the debate will continue over some of the points we’ve raised in this space over the past week. Taking a step away from what is, in our opinion, a poorly worded, overly punitive, rather ...

Voters won earlier this week when a bill was removed that would have delayed holding a special election to fill a vacant seat in the U.S. House of Representatives until November. The bill was pulled from consideration - a rare move given that it was given a message of necessity that would ...

An interesting set of statistics was tucked inside Mayor Kim Ecklund’s State of the City address, a voluminous document The Post-Journal has been unpacking over the past several days. City police officers responded to 10.7% fewer calls in 2024 than they did in 2023, with call volume ...

We don’t disagree with Crystal Surdyk, city development director, that a local preservation ordinance is needed in Jamestown. We wholeheartedly disagree that the ordinance currently under discussion is needed. The reasoning is simple - it’s hard enough to redevelop derelict old ...

Some sort of repair to East Second Street in Jamestown can’t wait any longer. We understand the state is planning a major project for East Second Street starting this year and lasting into 2026, but the road is unusable now. It’s not as if Second Street’s potholes just popped up this ...