Solar Makes No Sense, But It Makes Money

February 9, 2021

To The Reader’s Forum: Utility scale solar installations make no sense in Western New York. The energy industry standard of energy efficiency is called “Energy Returned on Energy Invested “ (ERoEI). Consider the energy expended to manufacture, transport, install and decommission utility scale solar compared to the amount of electricity New York solar can produce. As Documented by Forbes Magazine, industrial solar at this latitude falls below the “economically viable threshold”. Industrial solar is rated at four compared to nuclear at 75 on a Forbes ERoEI graph showing ...

Catholic Charities Thanks Its Supporters

February 3, 2021

To The Reader’s Forum: Over the past year, 14,522 neighbors in need of all ages throughout Chautauqua County were served by the seven programs Catholic Charities offers here. We provided basic emergency assistance, including support for food and resources for housing. Our licensed counselors offered counseling services for all ages. We worked with more than 60 domestic violence offenders for systemic social change in a coordinated community response. WIC, which aims to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants and children up to age 5 who are at nutrition risk, served ...

Readers’ Forum

January 30, 2021

We Should Cherish, Embrace Free Press To The Reader’s Forum: For two of the years while working as a university professor I had as my work-study student, a young man who was majoring in journalism. He was far and away the best student worker I ever had. I often read his papers and he read mine. I treated him as a junior colleague. One thing I remember about him was his propensity to check every fact in his stories, combing over every detail, making sure it was correct before turning a paper in for a grade. There are rules against making stuff up. A real journalist can get in a ...

Readers’ Forum

January 29, 2021

Please Thank Caring Funeral Directors To The Reader’s Forum: I want to commend The Post-Journal for drawing our attention to the important service that funeral homes are providing in midst of this pandemic (in this past Sunday edition, “A Somber Result”). We are collectively grieving numerous material and immaterial losses this year during this global pandemic—especially those families who have lost a loved one. In the midst of this loss, it is easy to neglect our frontline caretakers. We have cheered on medical professionals and others who have tended to us. ...

Unacceptable Behavior For Snowmobilers

January 27, 2021

To the Readers Forum: Recently my two girlfriends and I set out for an afternoon cross county ski on a trail shared with cross country skiers, hikers, and snowmobilers. The snow conditions were good and the trail was well groomed and very wide. As the trails were busy with snowmobilers, we stayed to the right occupying one third of the trail. During our ski we encountered many snowmobilers who were courteous, slowed down, formed a single line and waved as they passed us. However, there was one group of about 10 snowmobilers whose actions were deplorable. This group came up behind ...

Kicking The Public Out For Voting Is Unacceptable

January 23, 2021

Once again, the NCC and The Gebbie Foundation have shown their disdain for the people of Jamestown. According to the agreement with the DOT, when the train station was restored for the use by the people of Jamestown, it stipulated the public shall not be kept out of the train station lobby anytime the lobby is open. Look at the language the NCC uses towards the people of Jamestown — “(the NCC) will insist that you find an alternate location in the future as it is a hardship going forward. It is not open for discussion...” Are they kidding us? This is rich considering the NCC ...