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The OBSERVER’s View

Safety Measure: Village’s AED discussion was forecast a year ago

Perhaps retiring state Assemblyman Andrew Goodell, R-Jamestown, has found his next calling as the modern-day Nostradamus. Less than a year ago, Goodell stood up on the Assembly floor and called for the state to set aside funding for automated external defibrillators the state was going to ...

DUNKIRK County may be seeing signs of progress on addiction

A decrease in drug overdose deaths early in 2024 is good news for those on the front lines of the county’s battle with drug addiction. We won’t know for several months if the decrease seen so far in 2024 will continue, but there are some encouraging signs. The age of those who die ...

Dunkirk Finances: State plan is a painful lifeline

The state is proposing an $18.5 million lifeline for the city of Dunkirk. The city won’t be living under a state-run Financial Control Board, but it will be awfully close. But no city resident should be under any illusion that the state-backed deficit reduction bonds won’t come with ...

View $128M bailout as positive mistake

It was bad enough when the state’s labored rollout of legalized recreational marijuana was only costing the state tax revenue. Now, not only is the state not generating revenue to pay for programs, New York’s inability to follow the roadmap set by other states is costing you millions of ...

SUNY Council finally showing urgency

Problems have been evident at the State University of New York at Fredonia long before current President Stephen Kolison took office in August 2020. The latest enrollment numbers, however, are one of the scariest developments in the storied institution’s history. This spring, the student ...