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Opinion

SUNY FREDONIA: Recital offers thanks for support

The OBSERVER’s View

During his time at the State University of New York at Fredonia, Lucas West has been right at home. The Fairport native, noting his senior year, has had his share of accomplishments in recent years. From singing the national anthem at Buffalo Bills’ games to his recent performance in ...

Fredonia referendum is likely illegal

Commentary

I am responding to the Editor’s corner “Village vote can ice water debate” on April 17 by John D’Agostino. First I would point out that my experience is as a town attorney, not a village attorney, not a city attorney. Second, other than referring to at hand materials, and brief ...

EARTH DAY: Best practices for environment

The OBSERVER’s View

For more than half a century, the United States has been celebrating Earth Day. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, it was in the spring of 1970, Sen. Gaylord Nelson created Earth Day as a way to force legal and regulatory mechanisms to protect our natural world. Today, our ...

Getting used to getting old

Commentary

I think that you have to be in your 80’s before you get used to getting old. It takes a while. So, in that respect, I have arrived. Every morning, at around 6 a.m., when I limp into Hogan’s Hut to get the paper and the staff says: “Good morning, Mr. Kidder!”—I realize that my ...

NEW YORK STATE Wetlands Act delayed, not dead

The OBSERVER’s View

The more time one gets to look at the judge’s decision in local lawsuits challenging the state’s Freshwater Wetlands Act regulations, the more it is clear that the regulations are likely merely delayed, not dead. Judge Richard Platkin’s ruling last week in state Supreme Court in Albany ...

Surprising U.S. tax history truths

Commentary

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Taxes, for instance, have been changing and staying the same ever since Reagan and the 1980s: They’ve been heaven for corporations and the rich, purgatory or worse for everybody else. Now comes a groundbreaking book that looks back not ...