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A Lesson From The COVID-19 Pandemic

To The Reader’s Forum: As Gov. Cuomo stated, based on the same criteria as medical experts, it will be individual behavior, at least until a proven effective vaccine is created, that determines how successful America is in controlling the impact of Covid-19. The question that follows is “will the government and business support Americans in their efforts to control the spread of Coronavirus?” Regardless of how government and business responds, it will still be how individuals respond that determines when and how society returns to “normalcy”, whatever that will be. If ...

New Renewable Siting Law Passed To Fix A Broken Process

To The Reader’s Forum: Readers of your May 12 article “Legislators Opposed to Fast Tracking Energy Projects” were undoubtedly left with the impression that the new renewable energy siting law cuts out local government input, which simply isn’t the case. The new law is designed to improve a siting process that was expensive, took years to navigate, and was costly and often frustrating to both developers and local governments. It does not exclude local governments from the process, as Senator Borrello and Assemblyman Goodell contend. It requires draft permits to be provided ...

Cuomo’s Energy Policy Is At The Expense Of New York Citizens

To The Reader’s Forum: Governor Cuomo says the state is broke, yet he intends to tax New Yorkers $33 Billion to address ‘global warming’. The NRG power plant in Dunkirk produced 635 MW of electricity — was set to convert to gas turbines by 2020 with the potential to nearly double that electricity output, reliably 24/7. Compare that with perhaps 30 to 50 MW that might be produced intermittently at great expense by the three combined wind projects for Chautauqua County with 100 industrial wind turbines impacting tens of thousands of acres and rural residents’ quality of ...

Let’s Fully Open Chautauqua County

To The Reader’s Forum: In order to re-open New York, “every region in the state has the same opening template,” stated Cuomo. He added that “emotions can’t drive our re-opening process.” All regions “must follow these guidelines as part of the re-opening plan.” Regarding the guidelines, which Cuomo calls “factual data points,” who created them? It turns out that the New York Forward Re-Opening Advisory Board did the creating. The “board” is composed of 100 “business, community and civic leaders from industries across the state.” Not a single virology ...

Americans Should Prepare For Future Financial Emergencies

To The Reader’s Forum: Coronavirus/COVID-19 is changing the U.S. and the world every day. The good side is the general cooperation among nations, the search for treatments and, most importantly, recognition of essential workers and the courage of our first responders, who we regularly take for granted. The bad side is, obviously, the non-stop deaths from, and confirmed cases of COVID-19 along with the negative side effects of a damaged economy. Clearly, the world and the U.S. were not prepared for this pandemic. Surely, school closures, “lockdowns”, “stay-at-home orders”, ...

Congress Needs To Do More To Support Families

To The Reader’s Forum: Our organizations are working to help families put food on the table. However, we cannot do this work alone. The only way to ensure no one goes hungry during, and after, the coronavirus crisis is through stronger government investment in our federal nutrition programs, namely the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). While organizations like FeedMore WNY, Food Bank of the Southern Tier and Foodlink are doing what we do best — feeding people in crisis — we are struggling to keep up due to a “perfect storm” of complications: a rapid rise ...