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Business Community Calls On Legislature To Keep Tax Rate Flat

To The Reader’s Forum: County government has made an effort to move the needle on the tax rate in Chautauqua County over the past several years. In 2015, the tax rate was $9.149 per thousand and moved down to a rate of $8.375 per thousand in 2019. We commend our county leaders and department heads for their efforts to lower the rate. The Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers Association believe that lowering property taxes encourages private investment and economic growth. We call on the legislature to approve a final 2020 budget that keeps the tax rate flat. Reducing the tax ...

What Qualifies A ‘Thing Of Value’?

To The Reader’s Forum: Under Section 30121 of Title 52 of the U.S. Code, it is unlawful for a “person to solicit (from a foreign national a thing of value) . . . in connection with a Federal . . . election.” Whether President Trump violated this election law by imploring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a phone call to investigate presidential hopeful Joe Biden, and his son, for alleged wrongdoing in 2015 may turn on three little words: a ”thing of value.” In its review of the call, the Justice Department concluded that the solicited information could not be ...

Reader Feels ‘Truth Is Not A Value Of The Left’

To The Reader’s Forum: The left cozies up to post-modernism on all fronts ranging from religion to science and all things in between. It smears, uproots and destroys practically everything associated with and founded upon western civilization, theism and the Bible. Nothing more than a social construct of white-privilege, western civilization (America included), according to post-modernists, must be deconstructed. Deconstructionism (a fancy philosophical term trendy in higher education) essentially means destruction as rabid as the violence of Antifa or as subtle as ...

Committee Expresses Sincere ‘Thank You’

To The Reader’s Forum: On behalf of the Journey to Active Aging Workshop & Luncheon committee a sincere thank you for making our 11th annual event a huge success. We enjoyed a delicious lunch compliments of Meals on Wheels, received many door prizes from our valued vendors and gathered with friends. During our program, Dr. Christopher Hayes educated us about what we should be asking our doctors and telling our doctors, a wealth of amazing adventures awaits in one of the many classes at Jamestown Community College, Alzheimer’s disease – caregiver support: you are not ...

You Can’t Fix Stupid

To The Reader’s Forum: If anyone still needs evidence that the current group of morons calling themselves Republicans are living in a delusional, make-believe world it is a recent poll that revealed that only 4 in 10 of these ‘stable geniuses’ think Trump mentioned getting dirt on the Bidens in the infamous call with the Ukrainian president. The survey, released on October 1st by Monmouth University, found that 40 percent of Republican respondents said Trump “probably did” raise the idea of an investigation into Biden and Biden’s son over untrue allegations of corruption ...

Reader Disagrees With Cuomo’s Hiring Standards

To The Reader’s Forum: Governor Cuomo is making it illegal to refuse to hire or promote anyone because an employer doesn’t like the way he looks or doesn’t like anything else about him. How can you run a business effectively if your employees aren’t people you want or at least are comfortable with and can talk to naturally? And just why is the State telling anyone who they can hire in the first place? Why can’t an owner hire all men, all women, all black, all white, all Presbyterians or all Catholics, all young or all old, all Democrats or all Republicans, all Yankee ...