To The Reader’s Forum: Several recent Post-Journal articles have drawn attention to the rise in homelessness in Jamestown. I’m here to tell you that homelessness is indeed on the rise — and it may be much more common than you realize. In the past year, the Chautauqua County Homeless ...
To The Reader’s Forum: Telling everyone not to pre-judge Dr. Ford, the left pre-judged guilt on Judge Kavanaugh. Like Dr. Everett Piper of Oklahoma Wesleyan University in the Washington Times wrote, “If a man is accused of being a witch, then he’s a witch. Salem (otherwise known as the ...
To The Reader’s Forum: The most important role of local government is to provide public safety services for its residents. These services are generally administered by each individual city’s police and fire departments. I was pleased to read in this week’s papers that Chautauqua County ...
To The Reader’s Forum: On Sept. 24 The Post-Journal reported that the Chautauqua County jail is holding 39 women and 229 men, even though the Chautauqua County population is approximately 50 percent male and 50 percent female. Many recent reports call attention to the fact that American ...
To The Reader’s Forum: Within many cities and communities all over the country, the rather nebulous topic of good corporate/business citizenship, has been central to any serious community planning. This should have long been so for decades. Essential new business growth and expansion is ...
To The Reader’s Forum: The Jamestown Schools PROMISE Fund and the JPS’s Music Department cannot thank the Community enough for the wonderful response to the first ever Music Instrument Drive which was held on Saturday, Sept. 8. Seventy instruments and over $1,000 in donations were ...