The Jamestown City Council meets tonight to hold its final departmental budget reviews. After that review, the real work starts. As it stands today, the budget includes a tax rate decrease of 17 cents per 1,000 of assessed valuation and a tax levy decrease of $70,000. As nice as a tax cut ...
Should people take part in large gatherings without taking proper COVID-19 precautions? No, not unless some measure of social distancing takes place. Should Gov. Andrew Cuomo have the power to dictate local police departments, code officers or health department workers go into homes to ...
I don’t know about you but, as to politics, I am glad the election is over and things are returning a bit to normal. The Presidential election campaign was too long, too contentious and too all-consuming. I feel out of breath. At my age, enough is enough. Okay, we might have disagreed ...
President-elect Joe Biden’s call for a national mask mandate will be met with a cold shoulder by New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, who dismissed the notion of national safety mandates as “a nice political talking point.” Biden has posted his plan to address COVID-19 once he takes ...
I like the way Maine does their ballots and splits the electoral college votes. I have always felt that New York City controls our entire state of New York during the voting process. All 29 electoral votes always go to the Democrats and everyone knows it. It’s not a fair way to do ...
It is now five days after the election and we have no definitive answer as to who won. I know there were other times when the results were not known, but that was back in the horse and buggy days. With today’s technology things ought to be better and not worse. It would appear that most ...