Monday afternoon’s press conference came far too late. Some workers and individuals who could have received a warning long before Aug. 21 regarding the cluster of positive COVID-19 cases at Fieldbrook Foods in Dunkirk ultimately became victims. It was a cruel and unfortunate outcome, but ...
As if we didn't have enough problems to deal with on Chautauqua Lake, now the european water chestnut has made an unwelcome reappearance. The plant can be identified by its small triangularly shaped leaves, which are between 2 and 4 centimeters wide that form a rosette on the surface of the ...
To The Reader’s Forum: Louis DeJoy the current Postmaster general is sabotaging our postal service in your 23rd Congressional District of N.Y. His independent and rogue actions are negatively impacting our constitutional right for a Post Office (Article 1, Section 8). He is not qualified ...
U.S. Rep. Tom Reed’s criticism of Gov. Andrew Cuomo over unemployment benefits would make a lot more sense if it came with criticism of Congress as well. On Friday, the congressman slammed Cuomo for refusing to opt into a $400 enhanced unemployment benefit outlined by recent executive ...
To The Reader’s Forum: When I take stock of present day events and reflect on how this is all going to pan out for the younger generation it seems dark for them. How can present-day jobs in hospitality, ride sharing and selling legalized pot stimulate imagination? However, after ...
We’re encouraged to see Mayor Eddie Sundquist working to re-establish the old Metro 6 consortium of Jamestown and its metro neighbors. We’re equally encouraged to see so many neighbors willing to come to the table. Rechristened Metro 7 with the addition of Kiantone, this is a ...
To The Reader’s Forum: As I write, there are only two and a half months before the November 3 general election. Let me emphasize it is not too early to prepare to vote! If you live in Chautauqua County, N.Y., start with the Board of Elections (BOE) office in Mayville. With a computer or ...
On Saturday, we wrote in this space that Jamestown can’t cling to its furniture-making past if it wants to survive. The city should take a page from Cummins Inc. as proof that it must change with the times. When one thinks of Cummins they think of big engines powering tractor-trailers ...
Ready Or Not, The Election Is Coming To The Reader’s Forum: Ready or not the election of 2020 is coming and it promises to be rough, tough and fascinating. Neither side agrees with the other about much of anything. Both are firmly convinced they’re in the right. Whenever that happens, ...
Chautauqua County is probably a longshot to land an Amazon distribution center. Jamestown would love to be considered a longshot. At least the county has shovel-ready sites in Ripley and in the Mason Industrial Park to offer a company like Amazon that needs a lot of space. The Grand ...
Be More Tolerant Of Other Viewpoints To The Reader’s Forum: I am writing this note to serve as a warning to all readers of The Jamestown Post-Journal, and to all free citizens for that matter, of recent calls for censorship of free speech as requested by some uninformed ...
To The Reader’s Forum: The cancel culture is at it again! Obviously the First Amendment is under fire. If what is said or written does not agree with your viewpoint, you don’t want it allowed to be in print or said. It is funny how the left accuses the right of fascist or Nazi behavior ...
Thank heaven for those gullible Americans. Let’s hope they never wise up. If they do, we’re out of jobs. One wonders whether that thought crosses the minds of Russian disinformation specialists who have had so much success sowing dissention in the United States. If not, it should. We ...
Long before the COVID-19 crisis, rural hospitals across the United States were facing a dire situation. Forbes recently reported 2019 to be the single worst year in the last decade for these types of facilities as 19 of these health-care institutions went dark. On a local level, 2020 began on ...
Given the state of our national and state political discourse, one could almost see how Gov. Andrew Cuomo for dismissing calls for a third party review of the state’s handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes as a partisan tripe hunt. The governor is wrong, though. A thorough accounting is ...
To The Reader’s Forum: Slashing funding for addiction services by twenty percent amid a surge in overdose deaths is not ‘New York Smart’ or ‘New York Loving’ or ‘New York United’, instead it is ‘New York Shortsighted’, ‘New York Heartless’, and ‘New York ...
Politics often seems to be an all-or-nothing contest — even when the American people are those who will get nothing. Whatever happened to common-sense compromise? When did putting off a battle in order to help the people survive a war become a bad idea? Talks among Republicans and ...
To The Reader’s Forum: In just a couple of weeks children will be returning to school in New York state for in-person instruction. Restaurants have reopened and people are shopping in stores and malls. Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association are playing games on a ...
New York’s byzantine system of government was designed for an age ruled by the horse and buggy or, at best, proximity to a rail line. Word spread slowly when our system of town and village governments was designed. Not everyone was involved in civic life, and those who were involved ...
To The Reader’s Forum: Readers are thankful that The Post-Journal has not succumbed to cancel culture virtue signaling demands to silence one of the few brave voices cognizant of the internal assault on our nation — Michelle Malkin. Having retired from Chicago (20 years ago), I’ve ...