Our U.S. Senator, Chuck Schumer, has come under some fairly heavy criticism in the past couple of weeks over his decision to not let the government default. The criticisms were framed primarily by those in his own party who believed that the decision would further enable the President in his ...
On March 10, many news outlets announced that the USDA, under guidance from the Trump Administration with advisement from D.O.G.E, has cancelled over $1 billion dollars distributed across the nation for local food programs, specifically the Local Food for Schools Program, and the Local Food ...
During the confirmation hearing for one of the Trump administration’s cabinet secretaries, the nominee testified that “there are two genders.” Sexes, not genders, would have been the right word. As you may have learned in, say, a seventh-grade life-sciences class, organisms that ...
Public Broadcasting Service executives knew their day on the hot seat was coming for all of America to see. Since Republicans took control in January, the organization’s $553 million in funding this year from the federal government — as well as numerous other agencies — has been under the ...
There’s a lot to unpack from Saturday’s Chautauqua Lake Symposium. The county-backed event brought a packed house to the Chautauqua Harbor Hotel to hear from DEC officials, the Army Corps of Engineers, groups studying conditions on Chautauqua Lake and politicians representing the area in ...
To The Reader’s Forum: In our county there are people we see or know whose budget is stretched tight. Maybe they’ve lost their job because of an injury, a chronic illness, they’re pregnant, or disabled, they are children. They have been able to keep going because they have ...