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Energy mandates hurting upstate

New York’s winter deep freeze and record-breaking snowfalls are a stark reminder that reliable, affordable energy isn’t optional — it’s essential to keeping families warm, communities safe, and the economy running. Yet the policy choices made in Albany are out of step with those basic goals. It is becoming increasingly clear that the mandates in the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act have weakened grid reliability and driven up costs for working families and Main Street businesses. Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA set ambitious clean energy targets and aggressive ...

Don’t cancel Dr. Seuss

On March 2, schools all over the country celebrated Dr. Seuss’ birthday. This day and week is often called Read Across America. Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, was born March 2, 1904, and died Sept. 24, 1991. Seuss died on my 28th birthday. I’m not sure exactly what to make of that ...

Village’s future tied to reliable water

The historic village of Fredonia is at a critical turning point. It is in a new era. This moment in our history is both exciting and challenging. We face both problems and opportunities. How motivated are we to solve the major issues before us? Well, it begins with knowing and understanding the issues. It will require being informed as a resident and a taxpayer. Just like voting for a candidate running for office, it will require some homework and perhaps a bit of research. I maintain that clearly knowing the facts is essential to wise and common-sense decision-making because facts ...

It’s not a secret that we all live on stolen lands

At the 2026 Grammy Awards, the very dour Billie Eilish shamed Americans for living on stolen land. What a wonderful way to signal her humanitarian virtue. Then reality struck: Somebody noted that Eilish’s multi-million dollar mansion sits on the same stolen land as the mansions of all those Woke elitists who applauded her mindless proclamation. Oops! But the Woke elitists are not giving the stolen land back, in spite of their self-righteous virtue signaling. They did not bring it up at the Oscars! But Woke Leftists are not the only ones spouting the stolen land narrative. The ...

County airport panel stays grounded

Members of the Chautauqua County Airport Commission have the right approach on the pending Essential Air Services, or EAS, application to the federal government to resume commercial-air service at the Chautauqua County Jamestown airport. Patience. Patience. Patience. Their patience was evident at their March 11 meeting. The commission, as part of Chautauqua County government, supported a well-thought-out EAS application that includes everything it could reasonably be expected to include. The application was submitted in 2025. We all but knew this: It would take not many weeks ...

U.S. has long history of trouble with Iran

Since the 1979 revolution the U.S. has been described as the “Great Satan” often followed by “Death to America” by Iran’s leadership. During the last 47 years Iran has been the greatest state sponsor of terrorism with the U.S. often the target. The U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, was attacked and seized on November 4, 1979, by a group of Iranian college students supporting the Iranian Revolution with 55 American staff held hostage for 444 days. In 1984 after the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 241 U.S. military personnel at the ...