**Note – Today’s narrative from the Bullpen is a rewritten version of one printed in the second week of September 11, 2011, ten years after the tragic occurrences which happened on September 11, 2001, twenty-five years ago yesterday. The title words above were penned by Country singer ...
LAKEWOOD SIDEWALKS Jamestown just celebrated a great week with the hosting of the annual Lucille Ball Comedy Festival at the Comedy Center. It surprises me that during the comedy fest nothing was mentioned about the sidewalk installation in Lakewood. Because the sidewalk issue is a comedy. In a recent NYSDOT letter to the mayor of Lakewood it said and I quote "Installing sidewalk segments between Chautauqua Ave and Green St are not currently included in the preferred alternative." Since that letter was sent I have heard two different things that make me say, "What is the state doing"? ...
CHAUTAUQUA—If you’re more than, say, 35 years old, you’ll recall where you were when you heard the first news bulletins of 25 years ago today. Maybe you were in school or college. Maybe you were at work. Maybe you were running errands. Maybe you were with relatives or ...
We have had a tradition in America, not always but mostly, of trying to avoid the perils of businesses that get too big. The most prominent example in our history was likely the passage of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act which became law in 1890. Though its primary target, twenty years later, became John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company—its original passage resulted from a growing public concern about the concentration of power in big business, the elimination of competition and the resultant driving up of costs to everyone else. Today, we are seeing big business on a new and ...
Our domestic and international economic policies should improve not harm our standard of living. Domestic economic policies that encourage the creation of low-paying jobs to compete internationally on price do not raise our standard of living. Placing higher tariffs on imported goods without wage increases to offset the higher costs of these goods does not raise the domestic standard of living; it does the opposite. Tariffs also spark retaliatory tariffs. As the cost of U.S. goods to foreign consumers goes up, U.S. overseas sales go down, hurting manufacturing and agribusiness and ...
We already know New York has been losing more people than it has been gaining, and we know that New York is on a never-ending spending spree with our money, but now we know that New York has been steadily losing not just people, but specifically taxpayers, since 2015. The stunning report, recently released by our current state comptroller, very clearly shows New York has been suffering a net loss of taxpayers since 2015. As the Comptroller points out in his report, ‘personal income taxes are New York’s largest tax revenue source, accounting for more than one out of two tax dollars ...
