When I hear the words, ‘dairy farm’, the mental image from childhood is a green, wide-open pasture, white fences, blue sky, a red barn and some black and white cows scattered about. The news of the plan to build a new dairy farm in Cherry Creek was not objectionable, at first. The ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va.—Let’s pick up where we left off last week. The Supreme Court is considering a challenge—under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause—to Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act. The law requires that public schools and higher-education institutions ...
Eighteen school districts using your taxpayer dollars are continuing to prove they are major economic engines for Chautauqua County. Each year at this time, they expect a stamp of approval from residents when it comes to spending plans. When the annual vote occurs across the state on Tuesday, ...
We have complained for years about more than $30 million in reserves for Chautauqua County. Pine Valley Central Schools is even more guilty. In recent years, Pine Valley built its unassigned fund balance to roughly 30% of the succeeding year’s budget — dramatically higher than ...
Too many senior citizens in New York state don’t have access to affordable dental care. That fact makes it hard to disagree with legislation (A.11235/S.7594) introduced by Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright and Sen. Cordell Cleare that would require the NY State of Health Marketplace to ...
The legal fight over the Office of Cannabis Management’s seizure of illegal cannabis products from state-licensed hemp stores is fascinating. So is the state’s response to a state Supreme Court ruling saying the seizures violate the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Super Smoke N ...