Our President announced recently that we should rename the Defense Department, the “War Department” because we have not been winning enough wars. That is a bad idea. Maybe it was an idea that came from some of the “issue for the day” people that he has surrounded himself with, i.e. ...

Dunkirk will be holding a public hearing regarding a proposed Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) on September 16 at 5 pm in the town hall – one of many such BESS hearings that will occur around the county. New York State Governor Hochul has issued more incentives for ...

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) recently held their national conference to promote their ideology, including the Marxist “Dictatorship of the Proletariat.” This is rich irony: they claim to be democratic, yet push their own dictatorship. But it gets worse – they openly aim to ...

Recent newspaper reports of well-known national big-box retailers demanding huge reductions in their real property assessed values by Chautauqua County towns is not a new phenomenon. In 1998, then County Executive Mark Thomas and the Chautauqua County legislature saw these huge corporations ...

ORCHARD PARK—Let’s pick up where we left off on the 30th anniversary of the most thrilling game in Buffalo Bills’ history. Yes, you know which one that is. It’s the Jan. 3, 1993, playoff game against the Houston Oilers. The Bills were down 28-3 at halftime, and it quickly got ...

How many miles do we travel for friendship? I had to ask myself that when the happy invitation arrived in the mail. For dear old friends, my thought is that no amount of miles is too far. In my heart, I certainly would take three flights to Patagonia, a 9-stop train ride, and walk the last ...