It started when Jay Leno was doing the Tonight Show. He would go out on a street corner and ask passersby questions about American History, and sometimes ask them to identify pictures of politicians, and other notables. This type of questioning continues today focusing on young college age ...

Recently a friend told me that she always enjoyed columns about my mother. I laughed with her saying, “I’ve told her stories so many times, it feels like everyone would have heard or read them all.” But the calendar reminded me of a relevant one. Friends have heard the story, but it has ...

A few weeks ago, the OBSERVER printed an article about the extremely high cost of running our public schools. The OBSERVER was right to point out that an average cost of $30,000 per student per year, with some districts spending as much as $36,000 per year per student, was extravagant – ...

I am writing in response to The Post-Journal’s recent editorial commenting on a legislative resolution to create a time-limited subcommittee to look more closely at Child Protective Services issues of concern. To clarify the situation as it relates to the formation of a subcommittee by the ...

This is in response to the letter June 29, “There’s plenty of hot air in climate debate.” Although the author of the letter claims to reflect U.S. government and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change data, I could find no data on that site nor any other governmental site that ...

CHAUTAUQUA—Artificial intelligence, or AI, provides both benefits and challenges. To see challenges, first try checking results you get from a search engine. Then try something harder. If, for example, you know a foreign language well, proofread what an electronic translator ...