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Crying a green river over unreliable renewables

After 20 years of outright fraud, the UN-IPCC finally admitted their climate doom scenarios (RCP8.5 and SSP5-8.5) were phony nonsense. But those fraudulent scenarios were used to fleece New York taxpayers to subsidize Albany’s fear-based Green Energy mandates. But the climate-con continues daily. Consider the knee-jerk reaction of climate doomers blaming the recent Nepal flooding on global warming – before any scientific data was available! But geologists – using detailed video and seismic data – showed that the underlying bedrock collapsed, not the glacier. It had nothing ...

Hernandez understands rough waters, rip currents

SUNSET BAY—It’s a gorgeous late summer day on the shore of Lake Erie. As a Buffalo Bills’ game is on television, the sun is bright, the air is warm, and wispy clouds fill the blue sky. This is the kind of day that postcards are made of. It’s that much fun. It’s a bit windy ...

9/11 vivid to many, but becoming more distant

As I watched the ceremonies marking the anniversary of 9/11, I found it hard to believe that it has been 25 years since our nation was attacked by the forces of radicalized Islam. That Tuesday was a beautiful end of summer day in New York City as it was in Silver Creek with clear blue skies ...

Seniors and speed – a guilty combination

On Tuesday morning, I was tootling along Route 62, heading north to Jamestown. I had an 11 a.m. appointment and was actually running on time, thinking I would arrive with 10 to 15 minutes to spare. And then I saw him. The cruiser passed by me heading southbound. I hadn’t noticed him ...

After 9/11, innocence lost for too many

Last week, we remembered the 25th anniversary of one of the most horrific terrorist attacks in human history, which occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, that basically made the world upside down in every respect. I strongly believe that one of the most affected areas of 9/11 is the ongoing distrust among people and decaying mutual respect. Specifically, the international and intercultural relationship between the West and East and perceptions about Islam and Muslim people/culture in the Western societies have dramatically shifted with the barbaric terrorist attacks on 9/11. Every time I fly ...

The matter of population decline

The facts are clear and not much in dispute that Chautauqua County has over the past few decades been experiencing population decline. Some of this is related to government policies (or lack thereof,) and some of it by the fact that we are not in a growth area of the country. Since World War II, the air conditioner has made living and working in the South a viable option. Southern states also tend to have lower regulatory standards, and, as “right to work” states, employers in these states do not have as many labor issues to deal with. The result has been a shift in population ...