There has been recent discussion regarding inequity between the town of Hanover and the village of Silver Creek policing contract with the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Department. In the big picture, however, we do not see it. Earlier this month, Silver Creek wanted to pay less of the total ...
Editor, OBSERVER: Many of us are looking forward to a check for a return on overpayment on our 2025 federal income tax. Others are expecting to pay a little more on April 15. I have never minded paying my federal tax. I kind of look at it as payment of club dues for the privilege of living in ...
Today, Saturday, March 28, there will be more than 3,000 No Kings demonstrations all across the country. They will be a celebration of our First Amendment right “peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for the redress of grievances.” We are a nation of laws and we want to stay ...
Any mention of Artificial Intelligence (AI) these days is bound to generate a wide variety of responses. Some are overly excited by what they have heard about its potential while others are fearful of it. That’s largely because most people don’t fully understand AI yet. That often happens ...
The head of the New York State Bar Association, or NYSBA, has criticized a Trump-administration Justice Department official. ≤ ≤ ≤ Please read the criticism for yourself: NYSBA “denounces Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s declaration of ‘war’ on the judiciary and ...
Almost every level of bureaucracy is guilty of overusing the word affordability. As prices keep rising — whether due to inflation, at the grocery store or painfully within the last two weeks at the gas pump — that phrase gets repeated more than nightly “Law & Order” reruns. Let’s ...