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Threats To American Science Can Hurt Us All

In 2012 I packed up my possessions and left Jamestown to pursue a career and life in scientific research. My destination was Arlington, Texas, halfway across the country, where I had enrolled in the graduate program in biology at the University of Texas, Arlington. Aside from some short vacations, I had spent almost my entire life in Chautauqua County, as a student at Falconer Central School and Jamestown Community College, or in New York State more broadly, finishing my bachelor’s degree from SUNY in Syracuse. At the time I was so excited to live somewhere new, meet new people, and ...

The Importance Of Esprit De Corps

The importance of “esprit de corps” hit me recently as I was watching the workers on the sewer construction job now being built north of Stow on the west side of the lake. These French words refer to team spirit, to people respecting each other and working together for a common purpose. The construction workers on this job work as a team without a lot of shouting or being “bossed” around. They just do their jobs and expect those around them to do the same. It is obvious that they respect each other and like their jobs. One may be on a backhoe, another laying out the route of ...

Industrial Wind Scam Returns – Is Your Town In The Sacrifice Zone?

The towns of Ellery, North Harmony, Stockton, Sherman, Westfield, and Ripley are being targeted by Bedrock Renewables. https://bedrockrenewables.com/projects/ Bedrock gets lots of Federal, State and local subsidy money if they succeed in erecting 600-foot industrial wind turbines across the western portion of Chautauqua County. NYISO states the power realized from onshore wind is 24% of rated capacity but “is actually 10% due to being out of phase with grid demand” (Power Trends). One 450 foot wind turbine tower is made of 900 tons of steel, 2300 tons of concrete and 1300 tons ...

The Newest Form Of Serfdom

“Nearly the whole of the professional, intellectual, and government class has betrayed the cause of universal human liberty in our times.” (Jeffrey Tucker). Our Government forces taxpayers to subsidize those who chose not to work, lavishes subsidies on Wall Street Billionaires for counter-productive Net-Zero Green Energy projects, and subsidizes illegal aliens and the NGOs that brought them here. USAID funded the CIA overthrow of the legitimate government of Ukraine 2014, setting off the current Russia/Ukraine conflict which has cost a million lives so far. Under Biden, taxpayers ...

Just A Toy Or More?

Recently I have seen a lot of posts about paper dolls. I have not seen any that I had as a youngster. My favorite set was a set of twins. They came in a cardboard case so I could carry them around. They were probably about two or three years old as their clothes indicated. More than half the fun with paper dolls is when you got to cut out their clothes. There were always tabs that fit over the shoulder to hold them on. I was an only child so I played alone a lot. Paper dolls were some of my favorite things to play with. On nice days when it was not windy, I often took them out to the ...

The Impact Of The New Bills Stadium

When you drive up Southwestern Blvd. (Route 20) in Orchard Park, you are overwhelmed by the immensity of the new Buffalo Bills stadium. It stands there 156 ft. tall, or about the same height as a 14-story building. Yet, what makes it so immense is that it is like seeing ten or twelve such buildings all tied together. The size of it dominates the horizon. I can remember only two other public work projects in Western New York than can even compare with it—one being the completion of the New York State Thruway in 1960 and the other, at about the same time, the building and completion ...