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Commentary

U.S. maintains a love for royalty

The United States was born in a rejection of being ruled by the King of England and a celebration of the rights of individuals. The Declaration of Independence states boldly that “all men are created equal,” suggesting that hereditary monarchs are no better than anyone else. It may seem a ...

Seeing a shift in the Ukraine

Earlier this year, I wrote in this space about how wars are easy to start but difficult to end. Vladimir Putin is now finding that out. After capturing and destroying much of eastern Ukraine, Russian forces are now retreating and on the defensive. Thousands of Russian troops have been ...

New overtime rules put farms at risk

The decision from the State Department of Labor that lowered the overtime threshold from 60 hours to 40 hours will have devastating consequences for our family farms and force many of them to shutter their operations. New York is home to 33,000 family farms, many of which are right here in ...

Images of a 1990s film: County buys in to security ploy

It’s like a remake of that widely popular film of the mid-1990s, “The Net,” staring Sandra Bullock as a cyber-security geek who foils a take-over by the villainous “Gatekeeper” organization determined to control Internet info under the guise of “security.” The updated version ...

Brighter future won’t just fall into our laps

The economy of Chautauqua County is in decline and losing jobs. That decline is easy to prove. What is not easy is to find answers to turn the economy and job losses around. We can do better. We have done better, at times, in the memory of many of us. To build a brighter future we need ...

Hillsdale College Should Please Come Again

MAYVILLE – Let’s pick up where we left off two weeks ago. “It’s so necessary to remember where we were yesterday so that we might have a better understanding of where we are today, particularly with respect to our founding principles, to continue to maintain them, pass them on one ...