We often criticize a lack of action and results by Chautauqua County legislators in this corner. Most of it is deserved, but we do have to give the 19 members credit for being attentive to the public. In December, The New York State Coalition on Open Government released its Naughty and Nice ...
On April 2, the Trump administration citing the International Emergency Economic Powers Act declared a national emergency on tariffs. At the time the administration announced reciprocal tariffs on imports from several nations. Reciprocal tariffs work this way; essentially, if Country A ...
County officials have spent the past several years trying to talk up the amount of activity at the Chautauqua County Airport at Jamestown. Those efforts have been part of efforts to both balance the airport operation’s budget and to convince the federal government to reinstate the ...
Recent claims that Fredonia’s December Boil Water Order and the water main breaks are somehow the fault of the Save Our Reservoir group and the pending environmental lawsuit set for this month, would be laughable, if the situation were not so serious. The most recent boil order was ...
One of the most controversial pieces to Mayor Kate Wdowiasz’s 2026 budget proposal released last October was a $20,500 pay increase for her position. That was not approved and her annual salary remains at $54,500. That cut to the 2026 plan, in the larger picture, is very minimal. ...
An old friend of mine, pretty much of the same vintage, sent me an email suggesting that the words of Auld Lang Syne (roughly translated as meaning “for old times’ sake”) might be an appropriate topic for a column at New Year’s. I will give it a try. Most of the research I have ...