Town Board Pulls A Fast One For Big Wind

August 21, 2019

To the Reader’s Forum: New rules, new rules: At its August 14 meeting, the Villenova Town Board came up with a new law called “Abolishment of the Planning Board of the Town of Villenova.” Acting board chairwoman Yvonne Park refused to hear public comment before or after the decision. The town board is faced with a Chautauqua County Supreme Court ruling and an Article 78 lawsuit that says “the responsibility of the planning board is to make recommendations to the town board - a duty that cannot be fulfilled, either ethically or legally, by only two board members.” (Observer, ...

Trump Has Gone Too Far Regarding Monarchs

August 20, 2019

To The Reader’s Forum: After raising monarch butterflies for several years, finding the eggs, waiting for the caterpillar to become a beautiful creature capable of flying all the way to Mexico, I think the Trump administration has gone too far in limiting the protection of this endangered species. Can’t Donald Trump think of something else to pick on? Maybe a disabled reporter, a Blue Star family or a family fleeing from persecution. What about the people of Baltimore, the S..Hole countries of Africa or the members of Congress that happen to be female and women of color? I ...

Supply-Side Economics In Real Terms

August 17, 2019

To The Reader’s Forum: What do a “strong economy” and “low unemployment rate” really mean when there are a million more troubled borrowers today than there were in 2010 during the Great Recession? It means that the metrics used to measure the health of our national economy do not adequately measure the personal economies of our people. Statistics “in a vacuum” lie. The economic impact of our national, socioeconomic policies on the lives of real people do not. About 41 million Americans, that is, about one in eight Americans live in poverty. Another 4 in 10 ...

Reader Says To Act On All Fronts To End Gun Violence

August 11, 2019

To The Reader’s Forum: The P-J opinion from Wednesday, Aug. 7 has a good heading, but is generally devoid of substance. If you want to make a “commitment” to end “violence”, presumably gun violence, studying why mass murderers kill has always been elusive as a means of prevention. First, the murders have already occurred - we can’t stop victims from harm. Second, health and education professionals, including government entities, have studied cause and effect for years - listen to them. Third, you already acknowledge we may never learn “answers to those questions”; ...

Pop Culture, Sports And Contradictions

August 9, 2019

To The Reader’s Forum: A curious quote about God says, “God is too big to fit one religion.” Sounding like it popped out of a pitiful intellectual puddle of pop culture, the quote sure enough is traceable to a rapper in 2006. The quote assumes that God can be shrunk into a natural container. The Infinite God cannot be contained. JB Phillips wrote a book in the previous century called “Your God is Too Small.” You make God too small to shrink him into a mere container of any kind. I Kings 8: 27 says, “Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain [God].” ...

Leftists Have A Right To Speak Their Minds

August 6, 2019

To the Reader’s Forum: Many of our national leaders, most of whom I very much respect, are taking a tack which I do not agree with. I am certainly with them when they say that the leftists are despicable, but I don’t think they should be told to leave our country. As long as they don’t do or advocate anything which could be construed as treasonous they should have the right to stay here and promote their political beliefs. Norman Anderson Falconer