I am responding to the commentary “Rallies prove many unfazed by big spending” (April 12). The article is filled with misleading information, accusations that cannot be substantiated, and far right radical interpretations of data. First point, Social Security is no ponzi scheme. It is ...

I am GenX, the forgotten generation remembered by memes saying we drank from garden hoses and weren’t allowed home until the streetlights came on. Like most of my ilk it is what I prefer. Never in a million years would I have thought I would be writing something like this but here goes. ...

Editor, OBSERVER: A recent column by one of the many pro-Trumpers around here offered up "pragmatism" as the reason so many Democrats hate President Donald Trump. Here are just a few of the real reasons. Trump has repeatedly disrespected our men and women in the Armed Forces, a service he ...

This has been quite a year for sports in our county. Several schools won at the sectional level, we have had state championships in wrestling and swimming, and recently the Frewsburg Girls Basketball team and the Panama Boys Basketball team brought home state championships. Sometimes we ...

The industrial wind grifters are back. This time their targets are the towns of Ellery, Stockton, North Harmony, Sherman, Westfield, and Ripley. The snake-oil salesmen are busy signing up landowners — promising them lots of taxpayer-provided money to lease their land to Bedrock Renewables ...

Believe it or not, it’s Spring! If you look at a calendar, you will know I’m not lying. In fact, it’s been Spring for over a month, and the pictures on your April calendar probably show things like fields of green grass and budding flowers, robins dangling worms from their beaks, and ...