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Reader Questions Leniency To Manafort

To The Reader’s Forum: Much concern has been expressed by the decision reached by Virginia Judge T.S. Ellis regarding Paul Manafort’s sentence on charges of bank fraud, filing false tax returns, hiding tens of millions of dollars in income and failure to report foreign assets. The United States Sentencing Commission recommends guidelines for sentencing to judges. In Paul Manafort’s case, they recommended from 19.5 to 24 years of jail time. Judge Ellis decided to sentence Manafort to 47 months minus time already served. Even though Judge Ellis does have the right to make that ...

Reader Questions The Legalization Of Pot

To The Reader’s Forum: I’m sure most people have strong feelings about the legalization of cannabis in New York state. Perhaps someone can clear up my questions? It is very effective as a medical treatment for epilepsy, along with other conditions, and should be controlled legally? A majority believe it to be the gateway drug to heroin and most other addictive drugs. This has led to the present successful opioid treatment but (also an epidemic), because of its misuse and overuse which has resulted in the death of so many of our young people? I have talked to young men who ...

County Needs To Table Water District Vote

To The Reader’s Forum: The County Legislature needs to table for at least a month its vote on the expansion of the North County Water District while it shares more information. Let me be kind and say the communications regarding this meeting have been inappropriate. I have been supportive of the efforts to improve North County, and all county, water supplies, but the hearing scheduled for March 27 is a problem for everyone. The “Notice of Public Hearing” sent as post cards to some affected tax payers is inadequate or misleading. The Notice does not provide any information ...

Will Accusers Apologize To President Trump?

To The Reader’s Forum: Does any one of us believe that making things up about someone to ruin them is new? Quite possibly it’s been happening since the begin of civilization. Remember “you too, Brutus?” Is it smart to accuse someone of something that will take a long time to prove or disprove? Meanwhile it’s in people’s heads that the accused is guilty. What a grand political strategy. Even if you are proven innocent, the damage is already done. Such as a prosecutor in an important trial that states an incriminating allegation (not necessarily true) about a defendant, ...

Harvesting Weeds In Lake Is Ineffective

To The Reader’s Forum: I wish to commend Chautauqua County Executive George Borrello for his efforts in bringing about a cohesive comprehensive plan for the immediate and long-term health and welfare of Chautauqua Lake. As a lake resident, I find the Chautauqua Lake Association’s position, as stated in The Post-Journal on March 5, most discerning. It is obvious that Mr. Stage and Mr. Conroe, as the leadership of the CLA, are more interested in doing the bidding for the Chautauqua Institution than the welfare of our lake. Their requests to the NYSDEC are a replication of the two ...

The Elite Status Of The Supreme Court

To The Reader’s Forum: I am writing to express my opinion about the way the United States Supreme Court exists. The fact that its members are chosen rather than elected, to me, gives them an exclusive elite status, something which deems them superior to those in the executive and legislative branches of government. If potential justices were candidates available to the general population, there would most likely be a better chance of getting the best person for the court. I think that the present system says, in effect, that most people are too stupid and ignorant to make vital ...