CHAUTAUQUA— Chautauqua Institution doesn’t slow down as the season winds down. Although the last week of the season often has somewhat fewer visitors than earlier weeks, the place bustles with as much energy as ever. Morning-amphitheater programs bring out the crowds, as do afternoon ...
How is it, in an age of vast technology and information, Americans keep tempting fate when it comes to medicine? One decade ago — a mere four years before the COVID-19 pandemic, who would have ever thought it intelligent to not get a vaccination for measles? In 2004, there were less than ...
Marcy is not my real name. I’ve been Marcy for 67 years and I have no plans for going back to the original. My parents gave me the name Marcia, (pronounced like Marsha) which was a perfectly nice name – until I was in my mid-teens. In 1951 Stan Freberg made a record entitled ...
Because of the impending midterm elections, Gov. Kathy Hochul has not missed an opportunity to condemn the Trump administration’s federal healthcare policies, claiming they will strip health insurance from over one million New Yorkers, cost the state billions in funding, and spike ...
This week’s announcement that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be spending $20 million to purchase grape juice from area farmers is welcome news for the region. Just last week, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer was trying to make juice out of sour grapes with his proposal to use the Section 32 funds provided by the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 to purchase grapes from local growers hurt by the cancellation of their purchase contracts with Refresco. The same mechanism was used in 2025 to stabilize prices through a similar request through utilization of Section 32 funds, with ...
Nin Privitera, former Fredonia resident, offers some offbeat takes on recent headlines: – New York State Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher recently took the position that shoplifting biological products that are necessities shouldn’t be a crime, you know, like brain food for some assemblywomen. – It was recently announced that Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are leaving California to move back to England. And the line of Americans volunteering to help with the move already stretches to Chicago. – President Trump says that he may declare the Strait of Hormuz U.S. territory. ...
