One advantage of being old is that you have a long memory. I still remember the first televised Presidential debate in 1960 between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. There were some policy issues debated like the United States’ reaction to Chinese bombardment of two small islands, Quemoy ...

Hear ye, all you Democrats! Now is not the time for indecision. Our democracy is on the line. There is a reason our mascot is a donkey and not a squirrel crossing the road. Donkeys are stubborn and are good at kicking. Forget the media hype, it is distracting. So was the recent ...

Much has been written recently regarding the Diocese of Buffalo’s plan for “re-sizing” and restructuring the families of parishes within the Diocese. Some of these articles were well reasoned and thought-provoking; others were disjointed and emotionally based. All have a place in the ...

I remember this little hot dog stand that sat at the corner of either Swan or Dove Street and Lake Shore Drive in Dunkirk, N.Y. The streets in that part of town all had the names of birds. Probably the reason I remember it so well is that my girlfriend’s brother owned it. It was nothing ...

The Seven Years War, known in the colonies as the French and Indian War, cost the British government a huge sum of money, in part to pay for a large British force in North America. Feeling that the colonies had benefited from British victory over the French, following the war the British ...

Wonderful Warren has been my home for the last 46 years. When I try to explain what my adopted home town is like, part of my bragging is always about our Independence Day celebrations. “It’s not all barbecues and fireworks. I was thrilled when I first learned that we have a BIG Fourth of ...