Pete Howard and I often talk about writing the script for the pilot of a television show. We already have a name for the show. North County Catholic. That’s a little dig at The Buffalo News. The News could never get the name Northern Chautauqua Catholic School correct when Pedro would ...
Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying ...
This past week the Christian Church has been observing a most holy and sacred event, the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross and his resurrection into heaven. While the Christian belief is the most prevalent in our country, it is not mandatory and should never be made mandatory. The United States was founded on freedoms, one being freedom to worship as we choose. One important reason the early settlers came here was to escape religious persecution. The kings and queens of Europe forced their subjects to worship however they worshiped. Even the earliest settlers had differences of ...
You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. Last month, Chautauqua County Executive PJ Wendel visited the Dunkirk Common Council to offer remarks about consolidation. In his usual form, he used fear mongering to put Fredonia in a bad light by saying the village has one of, if not the, highest tax rates in the state of New York. While addressing how the county has concerns for paying unpaid property taxes, he said that to settle an unpaid tax bill on a Fredonia home assessed at $100,000 the county would have to pay $6,100. ...
Underdog candidate for New York state comptroller Joseph Hernandez was energized this week by a Siena Poll that was far from flattering to longtime incumbent Thomas DiNapoli. Though the Democrat has held the position since 2007, 65% of the voters surveyed indicated they had never heard of ...
Federal law establishes Election Day for federal offices as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? But wait. What about mailed absentee ballots? What about mail-in ballots? Does federal law mean such ballots must arrive at local boards of election by Election Day? Or does federal law mean they need only be postmarked by Election Day? At issue before the U.S. Supreme Court, with a decision expected by June, is this very question. The challenge is to Mississippi law, which requires that ballots (1) be postmarked by Election ...
