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Opinion

Saluting unending service

Commentary

Being elderly is a tough thing to admit. At least for me. I’m quick to dismiss the reminders-countless wrinkles, nagging aches and pains, doctors appointments every week, forgetting words and names. The latter is particularly galling. Over half the people I run into say “Hi, Ray,” and I ...

ELECTION: Rural snobbery aided Democrats

The OBSERVER’s View

This should be a week of soul-searching for Chautauqua County Republicans — particularly those in the cities — after Democrats made gains in Jamestown and the Dunkirk area on the Chautauqua County Legislature and the Jamestown City Council. Surely national politics and their effect on ...

Who wants to be a part of socialist New York?

Commentary

We congratulate New York City for their astounding mayoral choice. Forget his sympathies for the perpetrators of 9/11 and his overt anti-Semitism – that’s ancient history. Let us focus on Zohran Mamdani’s real passion: Marxism. Mamdani is a self-proclaimed Marxist, just like the heads ...

Handling the SNAP crisis: County GOP underwhelming again

Commentary

What are we to make of Trump’s handling of the SNAP “crisis”—one of his own making? Because he hasn’t offered a logical explanation of why anyone would want their fellow Americans to go hungry when the government is sitting on the resources they need, we have to read the contextual ...

Political shift takes a wrong turn

Commentary

There was a time when both major political parties had a substantial number of liberals and conservatives. But over the course of the lifetime of everyone reading this column today, liberals have shifted to the Democrats, while conservatives have shifted to the Republicans. That has ...

Lots of red flags in spin from ‘Blueprint’

Editor's corner

With under three weeks until Election Day, high-ranking Chautauqua County officials joined in on the blame game. It was not aimed at campaign opponents, but a much larger entity: New York state. Almost giddy, the dignitaries pointed out a recently released report by the Public Policy ...