Planning for Christmas perfection should be simple by now. I’ve been doing this holiday countdown for so many decades that I should have the decorating, baking and meal prep perfected. Fuggedabouddit. I’m lost as usual. I have no one but myself to blame. Isn’t our American Christmas ...

I have always thought that one of the great moments in the history of sports was that day in 1939 in Yankee Stadium when Lou Gehrig addressed a crowd who knew that he was retiring because of a fatal disease. He said to them: “I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the ...

You may have read that a 250-MW, 1,000 MWh lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) is proposed for Dunkirk. The glowing coverage neglects a few key issues. It is reported that the project will make no demands on municipal services. What about firefighting? The ...

You are swimming through deep, murky water toward a giant hulking figure on the ocean floor, your oxygen tank full, goggles clear, flippers propelling you effortlessly toward a dark portal. No sharks, no sea monsters are anywhere in sight as you enter the ghost ship to discover a gleaming stack ...

Now that our democracy has been saved by a mostly clean election, we turn to the next problem: Remove the cancerous unelected and unconstitutional Fourth branch of government from power. The Administrative (Deep) State operates outside the supervision of Congress, but inside the plausible ...

I was disheartened to see the news that Jamestown Community College has chosen to “not proceed” with the Downtown Revitalization Initiative project in Dunkirk. The $2.2 million project, awarded by Gov. Kathy Hochul, would have opened new child care slots, expanded office space, created new ...