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Opinion

Closure Of Bush Industries Hits Very Hard

In Our Opinion

More than 200 people woke up Thursday to find their services were no longer needed at Bush Industries. It’s a gut punch to longtime employees, some of whom have worked decades for the Jamestown manufacturer, and for those who thought they had shepherded Bush through lean years in the 2010s ...

Readers’ Forum

Letters To The Editor

Is Our Economy Really Driven By Capitalism? To The Reader’s Forum: If Adam Smith, the “father” of capitalism, were alive today, he would agree that our economy should work for our mutual self-interest, not for some of us but for all of us. There has been a growing trend in our ...

Are We Using The Wrong Tools?

Local Commentaries

In our rapidly evolving world, we are constantly building and reconstructing. This perpetual growth is vital—for without vision, the people perish—yet a nation never truly “arrives” at a final destination. As we build, we must exercise caution, ensuring our moral compass leads us to ...

It’s Not Just Inflation. It’s A Way Of Life

Local Commentaries

One topic of conversation among all my friends and acquaintances is the shock of today’s prices – for everything. When I was a kid, I remember vividly that Saturday movies cost 12 cents. Granted, that was 70 years ago, but it was for three cartoons, the Movietone news of the day, two ...

Doubling Down On Two-Sided Messages

Local Commentaries

At an anti-ICE rally recently in Minnesota, a burly bully belligerently shoved a petite Hispanic woman from her blindside to the blacktop. This was after the woman was assaulted by an onslaught of screams, curse words and obscenities as unhinged protesters blew whistles and horns in her ears. ...