The August 16 commentary by Scott Axelson and Michael Dee concludes that “Tariffs are only a tax in uneducated minds suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.” I consider my mind to be reasonably well educated on business and economics, but I struggle to find any coherent argument in ...
Recent newspaper reports of well-known national big-box retailers demanding huge reductions in their real property assessed values by Chautauqua County towns is not a new phenomenon. In 1998, then County Executive Mark Thomas and the Chautauqua County legislature saw these huge corporations ...
CHAUTAUQUA—If you think economics is boring, Stephen Moore proves the opposite. ♦♦♦ On Aug. 7, the White House chief of staff called Moore, co-founder of the Club for Growth and a Fox News contributor, and asked that he meet with the president, whom he has known since 2016. “I ...
Standing in front of the Tesla Gigafactory in South Buffalo in the middle of July, a group of activists, lawmakers and concerned citizens had a bone to pick with New York state. In their eyes, the company led by billionaire Elon Musk, has not fulfilled its lofty goals of having a workforce of ...
The city’s decision not to rezone some areas of the north side near Jackson-Taylor Park is a good compromise, in our opinion. We aren’t surprised some neighborhood residents pushed back on the city’s proposal to rezone some areas of the park from an R-2 area to a C-1 designation in an ...
Sen. Charles Schumer is continuing his push locally to marshall support for the Job Corps Academy in Cassadaga. We continue to stand behind efforts to increase the use of vocational education for Chautauqua County students. As a county with a shrinking population, we have a strong BOCES ...