As if there were any real question, yes, Democrats and Republicans can waste your money equally well. Look no further than public information officers hired in Chautauqua County. Governments that just a few years were crying poverty now are finding money to pay full time wages for a position ...
There is one claim made pretty regularly regarding the use of herbicides on Chautauqua Lake — made by scientists, mind you — that we wish had actually decided either true or false by scientists rather than being bandied about as a working hypothesis as if it were fact. We speak about the ...
Another year has quickly passed, and we’ve arrived at the beginning of high school graduation season. Graduation is typically accompanied by mixed emotions for students, parents and families throughout the region. There will be tears of joy and sadness — joy of reaching a milestone and ...
There will be times over the next four years when we will be inconvenienced by a $78 million reconstruction of the Chautauqua County Veterans Memorial Bridge over Chautauqua Lake. The alternatives, however, are worse than inconvenience. Not maintaining bridges inevitably leads to ...
No one can argue the wisdom of having an automated external defibrillator at the site of youth camps and youth sports league practices and games. A recent American Heart Association study reports cardiac arrest victims who received a shock from a publicly-available AED had far greater ...
There have been some questions why it took a group of concerned residents so long to publicly call for denunciation of two blackface costumes at a Halloween party last year. The fact it took this long for a somewhat apolitical group of area residents and clergy to speak publicly lends it ...