New York state spends $26,581 a year to educate a child in public school. If that gives you sticker shock, consider this: Jamestown Community College makes the state’s public school spending per pupil look like a yard sale bargain. Jamestown Community College officials keep citing its need ...

We have editorialized repeatedly — and will continue to editorialize, likely repeatedly — that our federal government needs to take spending deficits and the $33 trillion national debt seriously. A recently revealed failure by the Small Business Administration and the White House ...

The writing has been on the wall for the state’s Regents examinations for a couple of years now, so Monday’s release of 12 recommendations by the state’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Graduation Measures shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. But the commission didn’t answer a key ...

Most of us who drive around Jamestown, if the street is empty, have tried to slalom around sunken manhole covers in an attempt to save their car’s suspension systems from certain ruin. Drilling one of those metal covers, sunken to some 6 to 8 inches below the road’s surface after ...

Once again, voter turnout in an off-year election was pathetic. It’s not that we thought turnout for Tuesday’s local elections would reach presidential election levels. We didn’t. Frankly low voter turnout is the expected norm these days, and Tuesday’s voter turnout met that low bar. ...

On Thursday, roughly seven months after his arrest and subsequent charging with 35 separate crimes, including 17 felonies, Michael Burham pleaded guilty to the six of the charges against him in Warren County Court. Burham is still the prime suspect in the May murder of Kala Hodgkin of ...