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Looking For A Difference Choice In Presidential Election

To The Reader’s Forum: A little over two weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Donald Trump when challenging a decision made by a lower court that would have left him off the presidential ballot in the state of Colorado. Several other states were waiting on the results of that challenge in order to decide whether or not they would rule to leave him off the ballot in their states as well. The Supreme Court basically said that one state, such as Colorado, should not be allowed to decide the presidency for the rest of the country. Everyone should get to vote. But, as I watched ...

Don’t Be Deceived Again By Trump

To The Reader’s Forum: Trump is unfit to serve as President first because he is subject to 91 felonies and is doing everything he can to avoid prosecution, that is he’s trying to run away from the law - now Part 2. Trump was determined to be guilty of “sexual assault” of E. Jean Carroll by a civil jury which awarded Carroll $88 million for the assault and defamation. He was also determined to practice “fraudulent” business practices against the people of NYS in another lawsuit, which awarded $355 million to $454 million. Even though Trump intends to file appeals, to do so ...

Immigration Reform Is Needed

To the Reader’s Forum: The Bipartisan Policy Center releases a report in December titled: Changing Border Policies and Apprehensions: What’s the Relationship? It reviews the various immigration policies of the Trump and Biden administrations and their effect on border apprehensions. It provides good background information on the hodgepodge approach both administration have attempted to ‘secure the border’, which has become necessary because of a lack of political will by Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform. The conclusion is instructive. “In recent ...

The Need Of Bike Lanes And Public Art

To The Reader’s Forum: The shortsightedness of city and county governments is evident again in the denial of plans for bike lanes and public art—both measures that could improve the quality of life and economies of the city and region. The County Legislature recently let a proposal to add murals and giant chairs to the area’s public art offerings die on the vine. This work would have been funded from the county’s 3% occupancy tax reserve, money which can only be used for tourism-related projects of this sort. Meanwhile, the Jamestown City Council rejected a plan to add ...

Trump Is Unfit To Serve As President

To The Reader’s Forum: This is February 2024, but before you know it November 2024 will be here, and election season will be upon us. No doubt, 2024 is a strange year as far as the presidential election is concerned. While we don’t know for sure who the major party candidates will be, the front runners, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, are “old” and only 3 years apart. In other words, what’s age got to do with it? There are many factors in Biden’s favor! The biggest is that Biden is unindicted - as opposed to 91 charges in 2 federal and 2 state indictments for Trump. I ...

Time To Face The Truth

To The Reader’s Forum: It is time to face the truth. AMERICA IS DOOMED. Why the fear and foreboding over the coming apocalypse? Why the dread and alarm that the Constitution of the United States will soon be ripped from its inert glass enclosure and consigned to the bonfire of history? In the fifties, my generation was told we must fear the awesome might of the Russian military. Given the demonstrated ineptitude of the Russian army in Ukraine, I no longer fear the Russians. In the nineties and ought’s’, we were told to fear the awesome might and power of the growing Chinese ...