By JUDI LUTZ WOODS I am writing in response to the recent commentary “Dedicated Public Servants and Bad Medicine.” In this piece, the authors misled, misinformed, and at times presented totally false information on COVID and how the experts in our country responded. This unnecessarily ...

Sixty years ago, the popular TV show The Jetsons amused audiences by cartooning a futuristic society. The light-hearted show featured a likable family – George, Judy, Jane, and Elroy – along with a host of tentacled gadgets (including the robot maid Rosy) that served to make life easier for ...

Think of the excellence of the system we have right now. Anyone can write a letter to the editor, get it printed and not fear official consequences. I can go to the Village Board meeting or the County Legislature and talk about whatever I want. The police will not come to my door. Even if I ...

Technically, the state Department of Environmental Conservation is correct with their white-knuckled, redundant rebuttal: “We’re not cutting old-growth trees.” For the damage the old growth will suffer on their behalf, they might as well be. For those just joining us, here’s a quick ...

Donald Trump's cabinet nominees so far reveal a desire to disrupt Washington, and disruption is needed in many places. But as he mulls his choices for Treasury and the economic-policy posts, the question markets will ask is whether he will disrupt the policy mix that was successful in his first ...

Some say commercial-air service at the Chautauqua County Airport ended because the passenger count plummeted. Yet that misses the point. What’s worse is that it misstates the problem. The real cause wasn’t that the passenger count plummeted. Rather, the real cause was that the quality of ...