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Opinion

Wider Participation Needed In Lake Policy

Local Commentaries

The September 17, 2025, Post-Journal editorial hit the mark in commenting that the community should “Move cautiously before creating a new lake authority.” The editors noted that improvement may happen by adding more elected officials to the Chautauqua Lake and Watershed Management ...

Facing The Reality Of AI

Local Commentaries

Though I don’t completely understand it, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here to stay. It is the latest permutation in our high-tech world and has taken over the stock market, if not our lives themselves. In a way, AI sort of crept on me. I didn’t think much about it when I began to ...

Tax The Rich And Make America Great Again

Local Commentaries

Zorhan Mamdani proclaims to be a Democratic Socialist. What exactly does that mean? Well, as mayor he wants to provide taxpayer-supported public transit, so people can get around. He wants to provide publicly funded child care, so parents can get to work. He wants to provide public grocery ...

Drug Boat Strike Raises Questions

In Our Opinion

Congress is mostly a media circus these days, so credit the members who take their duties seriously. Lawmakers are doing a public service by trying to get to the truth on whether the Trump Administration killed defenseless survivors of a drug-boat strike. The controversy involves a Washington ...

Electric Equation Keeps Shocking Customers

Editor's Corner

Once the Sheridan Town Board did its due diligence months ago in approving a new solar farm for 2979 Middle Road, words of encouragement were expressed to the developer, RIC Energy. “I don’t see any problems with it,” Town Board member Colleen Yerico said. “It’s the first one that did ...

Reconsideration Of NC State Lake Proposal Is Interesting

In Our Opinion

We had all but given up on the five-year Chautauqua Lake Management Plan proposed and developed by Dr. Robert Richardson of North Carolina State University. NC State’s Aquatic Plant Management Program officials propose, for those who have forgotten, a staged plan that deals with the entire ...