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City Action Is Clear Sign Of Need For Cheaper Housing

In Our Opinion

The city of Jamestown recently paid more than $30,000 in back taxes for the privilege of taking control of 12 parcels that had been foreclosed upon by Chautauqua County. Why, you may ask, would the city do that? The answer is because the city had little choice. The parcels are located at 60 W. 14th St.; 32 W. 17th St.; two additional parcels on West 17th St.; two parcels on West 15th St.; one parcel on Isabella Ave.; two parcels on Monroe St.; and three parcels on Clinton St. Some of the properties are vacant lots. Other, however, are homes that either have homeless squatters ...

Despite Growths, Work Isn’t Done On Fulton Street

In Our Opinion

It’s encouraging to hear that residents of Fulton Street in Jamestown see conditions on the street improving. No one should have to deal with the types of issues that neighborhood residents have dealt with over the past couple of years. The demolition of some vacant houses has helped, as has increased police patrols in the neighborhood and an increased presence from city officials. It should serve as a lesson to city residents that raising issues with the City Council can help - even if solutions don’t happen overnight. The city’s work isn’t done. Residents say drug sales ...

The Cost Of Blind Trust

Local Commentaries

In the early stages of the pandemic, I wrote a column here about the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to treat COVID-19. The pushback from readers was immediate, despite the fact that I had quoted several doctors who had seen success using the protocol in healing critically ill patients. I wrote about a Democrat congresswoman who had begged her doctors to prescribe her ivermectin as she entered a critical phase of the illness, but they refused. Her husband was able to source the ivermectin for her by calling in favors, and within hours she could feel she was on her way to ...

The Hap- Happiest Time Of The Year

Local Commentaries

Springtime is upon us with sights of up-shooting tulips, trees budding, signs of daffodils, a little chill (COLD) in the air, and the feel of returning sunshine. It’s a time of hearing returned robins, children playing outside, and the call of “Play” by umpires at all levels, followed by the roar of the crowd, and crack of the bat, because Spring is not all that’s returned. Baseball has awakened from its hibernation state, and America’s Pastime has returned to fields of green, with the excitement, emotion, and fervor, I find myself experiencing at this time of every year. ...

Hochul Runs Into Walls Of Reality

Local Commentaries

Like the coyote in a Roadrunner cartoon, our governor has run smack into the walls of energy policy and tax policy. Her stance on both demonstrates her abject lack of economic sense. Regarding energy policy: Gov. Hochul was recently forced to admit publicly that New York cannot meet the net-zero mandates established by the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019 (CLCPA). Energy realists have been warning her for seven years that the CLCPA mandates are impossible, but the governor ignored those warnings. Or perhaps there is an election coming and people are noticing ...

About Trend Of Naming Things After Oneself

Local Commentaries

I was brought up in a tradition where normally things were named after national leaders posthumously, after history had time to judge and evaluate their contribution to society and to the country. For example, the Washington Monument wasn’t completed until sometime in the 1880’s, long after Washington had died. Similarly, the Lincoln Memorial wasn’t opened until 1922 — decades after Lincoln’s untimely assassination. Our current President apparently can’t wait for history to evaluate his impact on our history. Among other things, the Kennedy Center in Washington now bears ...