While growing up on the farm, my father always stressed the importance of neatness in the way things were done. He didn’t make a lot of money in dairy farming, but he also never spared spending when it came to keeping the barn painted, maintaining the farm equipment, or mowing the lawn. To ...

I have sat in rooms heavy with the haze of indifference—spaces where dissent is unwelcome and truth is inconvenient. To witness the unraveling of a republic and be met with little more than patronizing dismissal is a profoundly disorienting experience. Any merit of warnings and pleas for ...

NY Governor Hochul plans to issue more incentives for building lithium Ion Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) throughout New York State. (PJ July 29 “Hochul Announces Bulk Energy Storage Solicitation”), There was no mention of the real costs and dangers BESS sites will pose to our ...

CHAUTAUQUA—Let’s pick up where we left off 13 weeks ago. “When this columnist was in elementary school, it was common for children from Christian families to ask each other where they went to church. “Almost all such children and their families did so regularly, not just when the ...

Question: I recently saw an article that Medicare is issuing new ID cards due to a data breach. When will mine arrive? Answer: You did hear correctly that there was a data breach and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be issuing new Medicare cards to everyone that was ...

Next week is the Warren County Fair. I have been involved with it for a long time. When my children were young, they showed dairy animals. It was a lot of work, but the experience was worth it. There were chores to be done early in the morning to get the animals ready for the show. My children ...