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New York State Wants You To Vote Safely

To The Reader’s Forum: As I write, there are only two and a half months before the November 3 general election. Let me emphasize it is not too early to prepare to vote! If you live in Chautauqua County, N.Y., start with the Board of Elections (BOE) office in Mayville. With a computer or smartphone, visit the BOE website, make a call or send an email. The BOE is also listed in a phone book. First, make sure you’re a registered voter! Second, the BOE is allowing any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot because of the potential adverse impact of coronavirus, which is ...

Readers’ Forum

Ready Or Not, The Election Is Coming To The Reader’s Forum: Ready or not the election of 2020 is coming and it promises to be rough, tough and fascinating. Neither side agrees with the other about much of anything. Both are firmly convinced they’re in the right. Whenever that happens, where you have two very different ideologies, passions and rhetoric tend to flare. This is nothing new in American politics. In 1828, publications by John Quincy Adams supporters called Andrew Jackson “a cockfighter, drunkard, thief, liar and husband of a very fat wife.” In 1864, Democrat ...

Be More Tolerant Of Other Viewpoints

Be More Tolerant Of Other Viewpoints To The Reader’s Forum: I am writing this note to serve as a warning to all readers of The Jamestown Post-Journal, and to all free citizens for that matter, of recent calls for censorship of free speech as requested by some uninformed persons. Michelle Malkin is a respected and thorough investigator and reporter, whose style of reporting may disturb a few thin-skinned and delicate personae, but her column is necessary for a balance of opinions which The Post-Journal admirably displays (save for the AP articles). We are indeed fortunate to have ...

First Amendment Is Under Fire

To The Reader’s Forum: The cancel culture is at it again! Obviously the First Amendment is under fire. If what is said or written does not agree with your viewpoint, you don’t want it allowed to be in print or said. It is funny how the left accuses the right of fascist or Nazi behavior when they are so willing to employ it themselves. I read the beloved Connie Schultz’s column (with whom I seldom agree) because I like to have information from both sides of an idea. Our country was founded on the idea that we are able to express our opinion. Hopefully those who want to ...

Slashing Funding For Addiction Service Is Not ‘New York Loving’

To The Reader’s Forum: Slashing funding for addiction services by twenty percent amid a surge in overdose deaths is not ‘New York Smart’ or ‘New York Loving’ or ‘New York United’, instead it is ‘New York Shortsighted’, ‘New York Heartless’, and ‘New York Divided’. Predictably, here’s what’s already starting to happen – programs are developing plans to down-size or close services, frontline essential workers are losing their jobs, and preventable deaths of despair like overdose and suicide are getting worse. A 20% cut to NYS Office of Addiction and ...

Absolute Power In The Hands Of One Is A Threat To Democracy

To The Reader’s Forum: In just a couple of weeks children will be returning to school in New York state for in-person instruction. Restaurants have reopened and people are shopping in stores and malls. Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association are playing games on a daily basis throughout New York. The NFL season will begin in less than a month in Buffalo. In just over two months millions of New Yorkers will be going to the polls to vote in the Presidential election. New infection rates for COVID-19 are at or near a minuscule 1% on a daily basis. Does any of ...