Like most Legislators, I have not been given the $120,000,000 report on the Jail. In 2004 and 2005 when this Legislature approved of the last Jail project, however, I was your County Attorney. From 2014 to 2022 I was a criminal court judge in the busiest City Court per Judge in WNY. It is ...

Given its immediacy, it is understandable that much of the economic debate has focused on President Trump’s highly unorthodox import tariff policy. However, that should not divert our attention from the reckless budget proposal being put forward by the Trump administration. By threatening to ...

The Ripley Central School District Board of Education learned that the district has been named a National Showcase School by Capturing Kids’ Hearts at their regular meeting this month. District Superintendent William Caldwell said he had been contacted by the organization with the news. ...

Memorial Day was always a special day for me, even as a child. It was a particularly important day of remembrance for my mother. Every year, she made sure we wore the commemorative red poppies to honor her youngest brother, the family hero. Kenneth Arthur MacMillan was the youngest of four ...

Well, the weather forecast for the rest of May doesn’t look too cheery with intermittent rain punctuated by daytime temperatures in the 50s and low 60s until the end of the month. I do hope that Memorial Day was better than the weather bureau predicted. If it wasn’t certain, the national ...

“America now has both the pope and the antichrist,” stated a meme posted by a person who also posted another saying, “Trump is a POS, second only to Hitler.” Is Trump gassing Jews? Does Trump espouse a Bible-despising worldview like the Nazis did? It wasn’t long ago when I walked ...