I am an immigrant. There was no doubt in my mind that I would be entering 2025 with anything other than fear for what the new administration would mean for the over twenty million non-US born individuals living in the United States, many of my loved ones included. What I hadn’t been able to ...
There is a country song about a trucker on the road who is “looking at the world through a windshield.” It has made me think, over the years, that in actuality...we all see life through a windshield. The way we were brought up, what we were taught, where we were born—all of it is a ...
Chautauqua Institution is known around the world as a place for civil dialogue and conversation. Closer to home, here in Chautauqua County, the Institution is known as a stronghold for financial support to the area. In Chautauqua County alone, $233 million in total economic impact is generated, ...
We are deeply concerned about the misrepresentations surrounding decisions by a federal judge, James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C. To be clear, Judge Boasberg has not ruled that criminal immigrants or violent immigrants cannot be deported. What ...
Let’s pick up where we left off last week. Sex and gender differ. Organisms that reproduce sexually—as opposed to asexually—have two sexes: Male and female. Males are he; females are she. Gender, by contrast, is a construct of language. Masculine nouns are he, feminine nouns are ...
Another domino fell in the continuing saga of Chautauqua County municipal sustainability this week. During the Fredonia Village Board meeting, a budget proposal for the 2025-26 fiscal year noted a potential 55% tax increase. In a different era, that massive figure would be tough to fathom. But ...