CHAUTAUQUA – Let’s pick up where we left off 23 weeks ago, with a speech by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas at the University of Texas. Progressivism is a form of statism more commonly known in the United States as liberalism. Thomas explained that “progressivism” — the ...
No one could have predicted two years ago that two of Western New York’s treasured resources would become part of a political grudge that is part of strained international relations. When President Donald Trump issued the executive order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America in late August, ...
Here are some of my thoughts and yes, my opinions, on recent happenings. — I understand that President Trump has barred Politico, CNN, and MS NOW from the White House for engaging in “fake news.” While all three outlets have been unrepentant purveyors of fake news during both Trump ...
It's pretty funny that it's a Democrat who is now taking aim at repealing the state's outside income limits for state lawmakers. Assemblyman Clyde Vanel makes many of the same arguments that Republicans made in opposition to the $35,000 outside income cap before the state Legislature approved them in 2022. Vanel, D-Queens City, argued in the legislative justification for A.11733 that the outside income cap wouldn't have prevented any of the laundry list malfeasance involving the New York's legislators in the 2000s. He also argues that the very costs that the state has struggled to ...
Betts Industries in Warren is celebrating 125 years of manufacturing. When I read that they were hosting an open house, I was intrigued. And boy, what a story they have to share. All I knew was that Betts made truck valves for tankers. Dear Richard and I decided to take the company ...
AI is a trending and fantastic tool. From schools, government to private industry many are taking advantage of the technology to improve products and learning. Within the last month, however, warnings from the artificial-intelligence industry have revived debate over whether advanced AI models could escape human control and threaten humanity. The CEO of Anthropic suggests the industry should slow down developing the technology and put more safeguards in place. According to the Associated Press, worries that an artificial intelligence might exceed human abilities or be misused by ...
