U.S. taxpayers are now $36.5 trillion in debt, meaning every citizen, newborn or elderly, owes creditors (big banks controlled by those evil billionaires) $110,000. Death is the only escape, but when you die, you pass this burden to your children and grandchildren. The debt with which you are ...

I have been watching Dunkirk’s fiscal struggles with great interest. As a former mayor of the city, current businessperson who has significantly invested in Dunkirk and a current candidate for Chautauqua County clerk I am passionate about finding a solution. There certainly are ...

In 2012 I packed up my possessions and left Jamestown to pursue a career and life in scientific research. My destination was Arlington, Texas, halfway across the country, where I had enrolled in the graduate program in biology at the University of Texas, Arlington. Aside from some short ...

Truer words were never spoken. That quote by author Avery Aames sums up my lifelong love affair with cheese. After I stopped eating school cafeteria lunches, good old American cheese became a thing of my past. In college, I met a few French students who knew the cheese world. It was all new ...

Once again that huge, elitist tail that is New York City is wagging the sad emaciated body that is upstate New York. You may have read in a recent OBSERVER article that Democratic Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal who represents the Upper West Side of Manhattan and part of Hell’s Kitchen has ...

The importance of “esprit de corps” hit me recently as I was watching the workers on the sewer construction job now being built north of Stow on the west side of the lake. These French words refer to team spirit, to people respecting each other and working together for a common ...