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Idaho Law Address Sex, Not Gender

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BOISE, Idaho — Think of this. If you’re more than, say, 30 years old: ● What do you suppose the reaction would have been—from coaches and fellow pupils—when you were in high school if a boy wanted to play on a girls’ sports team? ● What do you suppose the reaction would have been—from coaches and fellow students—when you were in college if a man wanted to play on a women’s sports team? That’s right. Such an idea would have been not only dismissed out of hand but also rejected with disbelief that anyone would suggest such a thing. Why? Because this isn’t ...

Public, Private Sector Rift Keeps Escalating

Editor's Corner

Chautauqua County is well known for its north-south divide that has been evident for more than a century. It is a tiresome and defeatist attitude that residents in Dunkirk-Fredonia and Jamestown cannot work as one more often. In recent decades, efforts by the CHQ Chamber, the Chautauqua ...

Congress Must Act To Stop The Abuse Of Redistricting

In Our Opinion

Florida was supposed to be the finale of this year’s race to the bottom on redistricting. Yet a cacophonous encore is now playing across the South after a Supreme Court ruling last week. The GOP started it in Texas last summer. A back-and-forth ensued, with Democrats redrawing maps in California and Virginia while Republicans did so in Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio. Simultaneously, a long-running constitutional dispute over the Voting Rights Act came to a head last week when the high court limited the consideration of race while designing districts in Louisiana v. ...

CLCPA Talks Should Include Rate Relief

In Our Opinion

We’ve gone back to the future when it comes to New York’s budget - and it’s not a good thing. Late budgets were a thing of the past for years under former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. For some of those years, Cuomo was dealing with a divided legislature that had a Republican state Senate. Gov. Kathy Hochul is still dealing with division in government, but it’s over lawmakers’ shade of blue as the past few years have brought a return to protracted budget stalemates of the state’s past. It’s really about Democrats fighting about policy initiatives while Republicans sit on the ...

Clymer Fly Car Is One Positive Of Financial Surplus In County Coffers

In Our Opinion

Bob Crane spent more than 60 years volunteering with the Stanley Hose Company in Sherman. The Sherman man responded to thousands of EMS calls over his time, earning the moniker of “Sherman’s Security Blanket” after his retirement in a letter written by the fire company after Crane’s retirement. Crane is the type of volunteer that’s hard to replace. Crane left large shoes to fill. He’s an exemplary example of the value of community volunteers. He’s so hard to replace, in fact, that Chautauqua County is helping to fill the gap created by Crane’s retirement. ...

Where Do We Begin With Newest Homeless Developments?

In Our Opinion

Is it safe to say that, right now, no one is happy with our solutions for the homeless in southern Chautauqua County? Taxpayers can’t be happy, either, given the service being provided at the ever-expanding cost of temporary housing assistance. State Sen. George Borrello and Assemblyman Andrew Molitor are pushing the state to bring new resources to help with temporary housing because they realize that the current warehousing of the homeless in hotels isn’t helping anyone but the hotel owners. Falconer Mayor James Jaroszynski, Ellicott Supervisor Janet Bowman and Falconer ...