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Opinion

No Good News From The Trump Administration

Letters To The Editor

To The Readers’ Forum: Roughly one year is gone - only three more of the Trump administration to go! (Thank goodness!) But what a year this has been! First, I’ll give you the “bad” news. “Normal” has left the building! “Project 2025” has become the tool, the blueprint, of ...

New County Clerk Carlson Is Hitting The Ground Running

In Our Opinion

County Clerk Greg Carlson is hitting the ground running. Less than a month into his first four-year term in office, Carlson is asking the Chautauqua County Legislature to create a position of senior motor vehicle representative to help provide frontline customer service and help supervise ...

Will Dems Support GOP Domestic Violence Registry?

In Our Opinion

Everyone agrees that domestic violence is a scourge on our society. The question before New York state lawmakers this legislative session is whether or not they want to try something new to deal with domestic violence. Two bills (A.9538, S.8932) have been introduced in recent weeks to create ...

Safe Streets For All Is A Worthy Goal For City Officials

In Our Opinion

We’ve seen far too many fatal accidents involving pedestrians in Jamestown over the past several years for there to be no attention paid to the issue by city officials. Some may remember Complete Streets, which has been adopted as a lens through which to view public works projects for ...

Memorable Tales Of Lorna Doone

Local Commentaries

Lorna Doone is a historical romance novel that was written by R.D. Blackmore, and was first published in 1869. To be perfectly honest, that’s about all I really know about it. I do have, however, some very fond memories of a different Lorna Doone, and its place in my past, and present. Back ...

Telling Secrets To A Machine

Local Commentaries

I know people who are using ChatGPT as their personal therapist, and they always seem amazed by the quality of Chat’s answers. I’m guessing a great percentage of the questions posed to Chat go something like this: “This guy I like never called me back, and so I texted him, and he wrote a ...