In the incredible amount of midterm elections news, there were totalitarian sounding words of Ellissa Slotkin, Democratic senator from Michigan. Her comments were a clear threat to make the lives of young people who aspired to and took jobs in the President Donald Trump administration ...
For me, communications in 2026 boil down to telephone, texting, or email. I don’t do smoke signals anymore. Alas, my arthritic hands have consigned hand-written notes to the back burner. When I hand write, maybe the first line or two have some resemblance to my once clear penmanship. Then ...
Earlier this year, the OBSERVER published an article on the Chautauqua-Mayville Plan. The plan really resonated with me as north county communities navigate through conflict and change. The Plan states that "the state of New York encourages municipalities to update their comprehensive plans every 10 years, intentionally setting plans in place for areas such as land use, community facilities and services, infrastructure, demographic trends, and other topics relevant to the future of the community." Furthermore, this Plan was developed using " the implementable Comprehensive Plan ...
We are inclined to complain about the situation in which we find ourselves. “If only everything weren’t so commercialized.” “If only we could go back to the good old days when things were smaller and not dominated by big box stores and big business.” “If only we could go back to the times when we only used a phone that was hanging on a wall or sitting on a desk, not one constantly going off in our hands, pocket or purse.” We say these things, but, in fact, we are where we are today because we are creatures of convenience. It always irks me a bit when the Amazon, FedEx ...
Getting a ton of “likes” on Facebook, liberal reverend Bryan Berghoef posted, “Only a small mind would equate being a Muslim with being a jihadist” Responding, I wrote, “A discerning mind equates jihad with Islam.” Typical among liberal pastors plaguing the church and America, Berghoef’s popular remark lacked discernment. Compounding the lack of discernment, another cleric challenged my equating jihad with Islam claiming that greater jihad is internal struggle within a Muslim and lesser jihad is the outer war with infidels. A quick-witted respondent replied, “I ...
It's not often that I will refer to another writer’s thinking and observation of human behaviors in print. I am going to make an exception in this case. Mark Talley of Buffalo describes, in detail, his thinking about some of today’s youth. His mother, Geraldine Talley, was one of 10 people shot to death by a white supremacist on May 14, 2022. He is also the author of “5/14 - the Day the Devil Came to Buffalo.” "My friends who are teachers see it every day. My other friends who are child psychologists who work at the office of Children and Family Services tell me that we are ...
