Breaking News

In Our Opinion

City’s Homeless State Of Emergency Declaration Is Warranted

The question of how best to help Jamestown’s homeless population has been open for far too long. What we’ve done over the past three years best qualifies as stop-gap measures. Paying to put people in hotels isn’t helping homeless attain self-sufficiency. Local churches and charitable organizations have admirably tried to fill the gap, but in many cases if there isn’t mental health treatment to go along with then the help only fills part of the need. Temporary warming shelters a couple of years ago kept the homeless sheltered from the cold, but the strain was too much on the ...

City’s Homeless State Of Emergency Declaration Is Warranted

The question of how best to help Jamestown’s homeless population has been open for far too long. What we’ve done over the past three years best qualifies as stop-gap measures. Paying to put people in hotels isn’t helping homeless attain self-sufficiency. Local churches and charitable organizations have admirably tried to fill the gap, but in many cases if there isn’t mental health treatment to go along with then the help only fills part of the need. Temporary warming shelters a couple of years ago kept the homeless sheltered from the cold, but the strain was too much on the ...

Medicare Needs To Offer Explanation

At the time when Congress launched the Medicare Advantage program concept several decades ago, the theory in place was insurers would make Medicare more efficient, have an incentive to keep patients healthier and probably save money for the government in the process. Those at the forefront of promoting the concept at that time probably never in their wildest dreams anticipated that one day a major, well-respected national newspaper would have on its front page the headline “Medicare paid $50 billion to insurers for untreated ills.” Yet that was the headline in the July 9 edition ...

Latest PFAS Report Provides A Measure Of Good News

It was disturbing, though not surprising, when members of the Chautauqua-Conewango Watershed Consortium reported finding PFAS in the Chadakoin River and areas of the river near Chautauqua Lake. The PFAS are less than the limits allowed by EPA rules, but their presence is still troubling because drinking water with too much PFAS can decrease fertility or lead to increased high blood pressure in pregnant women; lead to developmental effects or delays in children, including low birth weight, accelerated puberty, bone variations, or behavioral changes; increase the risk of some cancers, ...

With All The Bad News Swirling Around Us, We Need A Laugh

Thursday kicks off the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, four days of comedy and celebration of Lucille Ball. This year’s festival couldn’t come at a better time. Our national politics are depressing, particularly with the violence of an attempted assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump and the ensuing announcement that President Joe Biden won’t run for re-election. Locally it has been a rough couple of months, particularly with the recent state of emergency declared over Jamestown’s burgeoning homeless population The national economy is making things hard for ...

Food Pantry Struggles Require Help From Above

We regularly see rosy economic news locally. Orders are coming in quickly for New Flyer. Cummins is investing hundred of millions of dollars to install a new line to make new engines. Electrovaya is working to open a new lithium ion battery plant in West Ellicott. Hiring signs are hung outside businesses throughout the Jamestown area. But things aren’t all roses for many in our midst. Food pantries can’t keep supplies on the shelves because the need is so high. Eight separate providers of emergency food told The Post-Journal late last week they need help. We usually hear about ...