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Opinion

Peoples Column

Peoples column

Justice not always served Editor, OBSERVER: Far left judges seem to forget their oath to follow the U.S. Constitution and often invent their own logic. Logic which does not require any relationship to the written words of the U.S. Constitution. Fulfilling a campaign promise, Joe Biden ...

War department is not a good idea

Commentary

Our President announced recently that we should rename the Defense Department, the “War Department” because we have not been winning enough wars. That is a bad idea. Maybe it was an idea that came from some of the “issue for the day” people that he has surrounded himself with, i.e. ...

BESS catastrophe can be prevented

Commentary

Dunkirk will be holding a public hearing regarding a proposed Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) on September 16 at 5 pm in the town hall – one of many such BESS hearings that will occur around the county. New York State Governor Hochul has issued more incentives for ...

FREDONIA: Water vote is just the start of the process

The OBSERVER’s View

The Fredonia Village Board has voted on a water plan – but nobody in the village should expect that the issue is going away anytime soon. Village Board members made a difficult choice on Thursday in the face of loud opposition to seek out a deal to buy water from the North County Water ...

Little guy loses again, corporate real estate bests rest of us

Commentary

Recent newspaper reports of well-known national big-box retailers demanding huge reductions in their real property assessed values by Chautauqua County towns is not a new phenomenon. In 1998, then County Executive Mark Thomas and the Chautauqua County legislature saw these huge corporations ...