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Enforcing Traffic Laws Is Answer To Falconer Traffic Complaints

In Our Opinion

Central Avenue in Falconer isn’t the only street in the area where residents want something done to calm traffic. But ultimately, all of the new stop signs, reflective strips or new speed limit signs posted every 20 feet won’t slow down traffic the way neighborhood residents expect them to unless we’re talking about the installation of speed bumps. That’s not to say speed or failure to obey existing signs aren’t a problem. They are, whether we’re talking about Central Avenue in Falconer or Newland Avenue in Jamestown or Norby Road in Kiantone. The behavior of drivers is ...

If You Want My Vote

Letters To The Editor

To The Reader’s Forum: Elected leadership needs to recognize there are groups of our fellow citizens who feel the need to impose their own opinions, attitudes and views on everyone. Whatever the issue, these groups believe they have special knowledge and abilities that allow them to dominate their local, state or national community by requiring the solution to any problem reflect only their specific beliefs. Our country needs leadership that is well educated and understands that governing requires taking care of the entire community and that opposing views need to be prudently ...

How To Handle A Discontinued Plan

Local Commentaries

Question: I just received correspondence from my insurance company informing me my 2025 insurance is discontinuing and won’t be offered in 2026. What should I do? Answer: Happy Insurance Season! It is the end of September and your plan is required to inform you about all of its changes for 2026. We have been talking all year about how 2025 changes to prescription drug coverage have impacted seniors and saved them so much more money on their medications. That means that insurance companies covering you have had to pay more. Such a change usually means we will be seeing some ...

Democrats Need To Learn Their Lesson From Bail Reform, Halt Act

In Our Opinion

A state prisons panel is recommending changes to the state’s HALT Act that governs the way state prisons use solitary confinement. The panel is requesting state legislators make 10 changes, most notably clarification that sexual harassment, lewd conduct, extortion, and attempted escape are behaviors that make someone eligible for solitary confinement greater flexibility in allowing solitary confinement for acts that are heinous and destructive modifications to existing positive incentive programs. It remains to be seen what the state Legislature does when it has the opportunity to ...

The Cycles of Our National Politics

Local Commentaries

In my lifetime, I have lived through what I would call two or three “cycles” in our national politics. We came out of World War II as the major super-power in the world—there was a good feeling in the country. Yet, somehow, we lost our “mojo.” Along came the fall of China to the communists and then the war in Korea. Suddenly, in the 1950’s, we were in a mood of fear and apprehension. Along came Senator Joe McCarthy, “pouring kerosene on the fire,” blaming it all on purported communists in the government and conducting a campaign of fear, falsehoods and blame. The ...

Cal Thomas, Armstrong Williams are Full of “Bunk”

Letters To The Editor

To The Reader’s Forum: Well, the weekend (9-13/14-25) P-J is full of “bunk” from Cal Thomas and Armstrong Williams. Reading the headlines, “Presidential Authority Can Be Misused And Abused” and “America’s Public Health System In Desperate Need Of A Reset”, my initial reaction was that finally Trump and RFK Jr. would get criticized for their conduct. Boy, was I wrong! The first article criticized Joe Biden over and over again, while at the same time, without an example, says, “Yes, the president has unlimited authority when it comes to pardon power…”. Surely, ...