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The OBSERVER’s View: P-TECH proving its worth with Westfield firm

The OBSERVER’s View

A major $3.2 million upgrade to a Westfield manufacturer is worthy of plenty of praise. Besides the company investment with state assistance, there also is an effort to maintain a younger generation within the region. According to an article in last weekend’s edition, Renold Westfield at 100 Bourne St. is actively marketing itself to prospective hires. The company has hosted factory tours for students enrolled in P-TECH, an Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES program for high school students that offers career and technical education and certifications in skilled trades, engineering ...

Sorting through the war, Mideast mess

Commentary

Is our war with Iran necessary? Some see attempts to give diplomacy a chance as a waste of time and want to see it brought to a swift conclusion with the current regime destroyed. Others, because Americans are peace-loving people, want our nation to get out now, and some Democrats, remembering ...

Is that nasty smell really a skunk?

Commentary

An attentive reader of The Post-Journal responded to my column about the nighttime marauders on our deck — the nocturnal animals. I mentioned that some friends in Russell, Pennsylvania, were being overwhelmed by skunks, and entire neighborhoods there reeked. Whoa — I had never noticed that ...

Forgotten men had major revolutionary role

Commentary

The fate of the American colonies rested in the hands of two men in August of 1777 in the Mohawk Valley of upstate New York. And one wasn’t “General” Nicholas Herkimer who led his men, some 800 members of the Tryon County Militia, including nine of my relatives, into a trap at Oriskany where between four and five hundred of them were slaughtered. The battlefield became a dead man’s land as the bodies of most of the slain were never retrieved. How bloody was the battle? Pulitzer Prize winner Rich Atkinson writes (The Fate of the Day) that in 1777, 1,517 Americans were killed in ...

The OBSERVER’s View: Some bright spots for Blakeman campaign

The OBSERVER’s View

As November gets closer, so do the polls for governor in New York state. Earlier this month, a Siena Poll found Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul leads Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman 49-39%. "With less than three months till Election Day, Hochul holds a 10-point lead over Blakeman, 49-39%, not crossing the magic 50% mark. In June, among registered voters, Hochul's lead was twice as large, 52-32%," Siena pollster Steven Greenberg said. "At this point four years ago, August 2022, when Hochul was just finishing her first year as governor, she led her opponent, former ...

Reason for Trump’s shaky ground

Peoples column

Editor, OBSERVER: There are reasons to dislike President Donald Trump. Some include: Waged war without Congressional approval. Blocked release of Epstein files. Destroyed East Wing. Committed murder on the high seas. Pardoned 1,600 convicted criminals. Litigated frivolous "revenge" lawsuits. Tariffed and alienated most of our allies. Abused and killed US citizens by way of his ICE army. These are just a few of the reasons many Americans have come to despise Trump and the dreadful GOP. When the midterms roll around, Trump will start hearing the word "no" from the victorious ...