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NCCF Local Economic Development group: Adding energy to Dunkirk’s waterfont

Ever since NRG started talking about shuttering its coal plant on the Dunkirk waterfront, people have had all sorts of ideas about what should happen to that facility next. For a very long time, a lot of people argued vehemently that NRG, or some other company, had to start processing coal there again. It appears people have finally come to understand that it is not going to happen. With that realization came many dreams about what should next fill the previously gorgeous, prime real estate. A multitude of diverse and exciting ideas emerged. Who wouldn’t love to see that land used ...

Our government no longer stands for all

“We the people” means something we are doing together. Of, for and by ourselves. “In order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America” Lifted from the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace. This idea is really Native American. We owe them a debt of gratitude. We have enjoyed the Blessings of Liberty until recently. This letter is proof that we ...

Pull back on the rhetorical reins

Let’s pick up where we left off last week. At some things, one just has to laugh. One just has to laugh at what four law schools did that at least in effect substantially diminished attendance for presentations to Federalist Society chapters: — At one law school: A fire drill and the next semester’s class registration. — At another: Simultaneously scheduling an event at the law school’s other campus to honor Justice Clarence Thomas’s chief 1991 accuser. — At another: Simultaneously scheduling a mid-semester first-year-law-student orientation. — At another: ...

Penny pinching in parking lots

“If you see a penny pick it up – then all day you’ll have good luck.” Every time my mother bent over to pick up a penny, she said exactly that. Without fail. And she picked up every penny she saw. In her later years, her balance was not so hot. If I was walking with her and she spotted a coin, I was the bender and picker-upper. It was never an inconvenience. Mom trained me early. We did not go around staring at the ground for lost coins. But honestly, just having eagle eyes meant we found more than our share over the years. And not just pennies. I vividly remember an ...

No losing sleep over late-night TV

With the recent announcement by CBS that “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” would end next spring and the recent suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” by ABC my attention turned to the “Tonight Show” that started it all. The man credited with coming up with the idea that became the “Tonight Show” was Pat Weaver who at the time was the President of NBC. A creative man, he established many operating practices that became standard for network television. Besides “Tonight Show” he is also credited with creating “Today” in 1952. The “Tonight Show” is the longest ...

Another lesson from the sports world

Earlier, last month, was the official end to the major professional golf tournaments of 2025—the final game of the FEDEX Cup. I know that many of you don’t follow golf, so I won’t bore you with the details. But, perhaps, the best headline of the whole year in competitive, professional golf came out of that final match. A journey-man golfer, a guy who had tried 163 times to win a golf tournament but without success...would finally win one, and it would be for the whole “shebang,” Tommy Fleetwood, who had probably come in second on more golf tournaments than any other ...