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Opinion

Rallies for peace bring vandals, violence

Commentary

At an anti-ICE rally recently in Minnesota, a burly bully belligerently shoved a petite Hispanic woman from her blindside to the blacktop. This was after the woman was assaulted by an onslaught of screams, curse words and obscenities as unhinged protesters blew whistles and horns in her ears. ...

Dots have been connected, don’t look away

Commentary

The simple minded and the uninformed can be easily led astray. And those who can not connect the dots look the other way. People believe what they want to believe when it makes no sense at all. Walk Tall — John Mellencamp 2004 I implore readers of this column to watch the village board ...

Getting past the noise for freedom

Commentary

As anyone who has ever tried to escape reality can tell you, you’re more than likely to end up back in it. We can imagine things to be different. We can dream away the night, but when the sun comes up, it’s the same sun as yesterday. We find ourselves in the same material world at the same ...

Inept Fredonia content to be in crisis

The OBSERVER’s View

Fredonia’s follies just will not go away. Last week, after a contentious Village Board meeting marred by a minor scuffle after the public comment session, trustees went into executive session and created even more chaos. When they came out of it, the board terminated its Department of Public ...

Battling adversity spurs patriotic virtues

Commentary

Americans by nature seem to root for the underdog — in sporting events and in military battles. Many times, in our nation’s history we have been on the side that must beat all the odds. This was the story of our nation from the very beginning. Even farther back than the creation of the ...