There are going to be some who will be upset if the Chautauqua County Legislature approves a $200,000 allocation to the National Comedy Center when the legislature meets Wednesday. We understand the concerns. Millions of government dollars have been given to help build the center, and ...
Chautauqua Institution officials announced a new president with quite an impressive resume. Mark Coolidge Johnson is a senior Foreign Services Officer and attorney - as well as a third-generation Chautauquan. Johnson currently serves as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico ...
The more time one gets to look at the judge’s decision in local lawsuits challenging the state’s Freshwater Wetlands Act regulations, the more it is clear that the regulations are likely merely delayed, not dead. Judge Richard Platkin’s ruling last week in state Supreme Court in Albany ...
Growing Plutocracy Has Risen To Power In America To the Readers’ Forum: We can thank the shortsightedness of the Roberts Court for the rise of a plutocracy in America that gave us a Donald Trump. On January 21, 2010, in Citizens United v. F.E.C., the Roberts Court opened the door for ...
I think that you have to be in your 80’s before you get used to getting old. It takes a while. So, in that respect, I have arrived. Every morning, at around 6 a.m., when I limp into Hogan’s Hut to get the paper and the staff says: “Good morning, Mr. Kidder!”—I realize that my ...
The March 28, 2026 commentary, from Assemblyman Molitor, citing statistics explaining his reasoning on people moving, from the State of New York is flawed. He is not telling the whole story. In selecting only statistics which support his view, he misleads his constituents. It appears ...