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Letters To The Editor

Doctor Thanks Loyal Patients In Retirement

To The Reader’s Forum: I will be formally retiring, effective Dec. 20, 2018. It has been my extreme honor and privilege to serve you, your children and your children’s children as your chiropractor. While Lori and I move toward new adventures, the office will continue to provide ...

A Shining City To Servicemen And Servicewomen

To The Reader’s Forum: I was mystified to read Mr. Norman P. Carlson’s Reader’s Forum contribution on Dec. 1, 2018 regarding the designation of “The Pearl City” often associated with Jamestown. In my own Reader’s Forum submission of Nov.27, 2018, I had quoted a website that ...

Reader Asks For Whom The President Works

To the Reader’s Forum: These are the words of Mr. Trump explaining, when he was the presumptive nominee for president, why he was dealing with Russian officials while lying about it to the American people: “I was campaigning. There was a good chance that I wouldn’t have won, in which ...

In Support Of The Lake And Gary Peters Sr.

To The Reader’s Forum: I have lived in Chautauqua County for almost 70 years. In the 1960s and 1970s we sprayed the lake for weeds and have never seen fish killed by the herbicide. Now that we only spray small areas of the lake weeds prosper in those that don’t. Some suggestions: ...

Local History Can Be Filled With Nonsense

To The Reader’s Forum: Jamestown was first called The Pearl City in the 1880’s, decades after the ash trade was over. I’ve asked the city to take that accursed error off their web site. Chautauqua does not mean bag tied in the middle. George Washington never came closer than 15 miles ...

Consider The Benefits Of Capitalism

To The Reader’s Forum: There are very few heroes in economics but for me the best of the best was Nikolai Kondratieff, who was shot by firing squad on the orders of Stalin in 1938. His execution was ordered because his academic work propounded that the capitalist system would survive the ...