A lot is going on in the news right now. Our college campuses are in turmoil. These gathering places for higher learning have traditionally erupted when the end of the spring semester comes and have been where protest and change begin. It needs to happen. We protested for civil rights and ...

Is America divided? How about a small community of about 20,000 bisected and often duplicated because of arbitrary boundaries that most people would be hard-pressed to locate? Dunkirk is facing a fiscal crisis and lower bond rating. Fredonia approved a tax increase. Both have experienced a ...

Let’s pick up where we started 32 weeks ago. You, faithful reader of this column, may recall that in three columns, we reviewed the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court opinion taking race-based college and university admissions off the table. The court’s opinion in Students for Fair Admissions, ...

Recently a high school class in a North Carolina school was given a vocabulary assignment by their teacher that included the word “alien.” One male student seeking clarification made the foolish mistake of asking her if she meant a space alien or perhaps an illegal alien. A gasp must have ...

When those Roman guys switched from togas to pants, they got pockets. It’s been that way ever since. The men got the simplest of all the clothes, the three-brush-stroke hairstyles, and all the easiest household chores. AND they got pockets? No fair. Then Levi Strauss designed five pockets ...

Kudos to Paul Christopher! I appreciate his recent commentary on life in Fredonia’s Little Italy. As a former resident, permit me to piggyback on his commentary. My first six years were spent in our home on Gillis Street with four generations under one roof. There was an abundance of ...