I was raised in a rural, conservative-leaning county with two working parents and six busy kids. My mother was a nurse and public heath educator and my father worked in insurance and real estate before serving three terms as our Republican state House Representative and later as a lawyer and ...

Fifty years ago, Chautauqua County was facing a big problem. Art Metal Corporation, the largest metal furniture manufacturer in Jamestown, had built a new 1 million sq. ft. factory in Busti—but then Art Metal slid into bankruptcy. The new factory building was empty. What was to be done with ...

“What?” You may ask, is CLCPA, and why does it matter? CLCPA is the atrociously misnamed New York state “Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.” It is how the state Government will sacrifice taxpayers on the “Green” altar, while the rest of the world laughs at our ...

Well! The last month has been very interesting for the Presidential race. So far, the 2024 campaign has been like no other in American history. We started off with a so-called debate, with a barrage of un-factchecked Trump lies on one side and on the other side, an unwell and tired Joe, ...

I would like to bring to attention a document made by the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, that would transform our current democracy into a Christian nationalist dictatorship. Although Donald Trump claims he knows nothing about this document, more than half of the authors are appointees ...

CHAUTAUQUA — To those who came of age in the last quarter of the 20th century, American — and young Americans’ — involvement in long wars then seemed like something for history books. The experience of earlier generations was different. Many knew the experience of long wars. Some knew ...