Midterm elections will soon be here. Are you ready to vote?
It has been an unusually confusing election year in Chautauqua County. We had a primary in June, another primary and a special election in August, and now a general election on Nov. 8.
First and foremost, are you registered? ...
CHAUTAUQUA – Upon entering the parlor at the Athenaeum Hotel, Thomas Jefferson called to those outside to tend to his horse.
Jefferson also good naturedly chided the audience for not standing as a former president of the United States entered the room but quickly added that’s as it should ...
The cartoon in Friday’s OBSERVER, depicting what has become a national train wreck led by the Biden administration hit home on many levels. If you remember the cartoon, the car near the end of the Biden train wreck, marked “inflation” was in flames as the administration’s out of control ...
His name was Bruce Smith, and by telling you that, I am breaking my personal rule of writing only first names.
Bruce and I never met. He lived in Garland, Texas, and yet he became important in my life for 13 years. He died last fall, and with it, a very special voice and heart passed from my ...
I was watching a football game recently when I had a major revelation of extreme significance. That game is so unawakened; it is so not woke. Football is archaic and in terrible need of a woke makeover.
It must be shaken from its madness and anger, brashness, mouth-breathing crudeness and it ...
In terms of local government, there is really nothing as unique as the Board of Public Utilities (BPU.) It is a subsidiary of the city government of Jamestown, but it serves a much larger clientele.
Back in the 1970s when I first became involved in politics, the BPU was largely an electric ...