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Opinion

We Must Come Together And Clean The City Up

Local Commentaries

I know many residents like me are fellow business owners in Jamestown and we are all in agreement that the state of public safety in our city is bad. If you were to canvass or survey the businesses in the city, I am confident that the number one issue would be crime. Crime comes in many forms. ...

Electric Buses Should Be An Option, Not Required

Local Commentaries

Relative to the pending revote to purchase two electric buses and update the Bemus Bus Garage to enable its use for the same, I would offer the following. I believe that electric vehicles, including buses, could be one of the options for transporting students, but not a mandated option. What ...

There Are Local Consequences To Federal Cuts

Local Commentaries

Representative Langworthy manipulates the truth to lie to his constituents. In his weekly newsletter, Langworthy points out that the recently passed House budget resolution, “simply establishes a budgetary framework while instructing several House committees to find savings and make ...

The Need Of Natural Gas Is Matter Of Life And Death

Local Commentaries

Energy experts, engineers and grid operators should be setting our energy policy not politicians. Politicians are often responding to undue pressure from various stakeholders; self-serving industry groups and environmental organizations. Please note our current energy mandates /policies to ...

When The Chickens Come Home To Roost

Local Commentaries

This is an old saying which essentially means that things which are foreseeable and need to be fixed but are not...will, sooner or later, eventually need to be dealt with. In Chautauqua County, right now, two municipalities seem to be in the forefront as to this situation—Dunkirk and ...

President’s Two Takes On Nation’s Tax Policy

In Our Opinion

The story of Republican tax policy in the Trump era is the contest between pro-growth ideas and anti-growth income redistribution. An example of both was on display in President Trump’s recent speech to Congress. The good idea was Trump’s proposal to let companies deduct the full cost of ...