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Opinion

Who wants to be a part of socialist New York?

Commentary

We congratulate New York City for their astounding mayoral choice. Forget his sympathies for the perpetrators of 9/11 and his overt anti-Semitism – that’s ancient history. Let us focus on Zohran Mamdani’s real passion: Marxism. Mamdani is a self-proclaimed Marxist, just like the heads ...

Political shift takes a wrong turn

Commentary

There was a time when both major political parties had a substantial number of liberals and conservatives. But over the course of the lifetime of everyone reading this column today, liberals have shifted to the Democrats, while conservatives have shifted to the Republicans. That has ...

Lots of red flags in spin from ‘Blueprint’

Editor's corner

With under three weeks until Election Day, high-ranking Chautauqua County officials joined in on the blame game. It was not aimed at campaign opponents, but a much larger entity: New York state. Almost giddy, the dignitaries pointed out a recently released report by the Public Policy ...

FREDONIA: Big tax hike not slowing spending

The OBSERVER’s View

We’re glad to see the village of Fredonia is keeping a close eye on expenses after their 54% tax hike debacle last spring. We note that sarcastically. Before the end of October, those high spending board members with an $11 million budget that keeps growing decided to bring back a retired ...

Organizing all that wonderful ‘stuff’

Commentary

I foolishly planned a yard sale. I even hornswoggled Dear Richard into the idea. I’m an idiot. For the past three or four years, we’ve been donating our worthy goods to worthy charities. Simple. Easy. Sensible. Then one day I found a bunch of little things I don’t use and put them in a ...

Democrats are their own wrecking ball

Commentary

Mostly at the national level, Democrats have lost their minds. The case in point is the ballroom being constructed that led to the demolition of the East Wing of the White House, a rather undistinguished 1942 addition originally constructed to camouflage a World War II bomb shelter. In later ...