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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 ...

County Takes Quiet, But Important Step, For Chautauqua Lake

Two steps taken last week by the Chautauqua County Legislature could benefit Chautauqua Lake for years to come. Approval of ARPA funding to study sewers around the east side of Chautauqua Lake. Studies have shown that a majority of the phosphorus that enters Chautauqua Lake is from internal loading, groundwater sources and point sources, but septic systems are a significant contributor to phosphorus loading in Chautauqua Lake. That’s particularly true on the lake’s north basin. Even more important, however, is approval of $600,000 from the county’s reserve fund to pay the ...

Kindt’s Escape From Dutchess County Should Boost Borrello Bill

Imagine the shock of Cattaraugus County residents earlier this week when convicted murderer Edward Kindt fled his halfway house in Dutchess County and made his way back to Cattaraugus County. State Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, said it is the second time Kindt has violated his parole since being released by the Parole Board last year, while Kindt also violated an order of the Seneca Nation of Indians banning him from their nation for at least one year. Perhaps the worst part is that the state Parole Division didn’t notify the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office of Kindt’s ...