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Opinion

Weekend voices: Democratic Socialists of America lacks family values

Commentary

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) recently held their national conference to promote their ideology, including the Marxist “Dictatorship of the Proletariat.” This is rich irony: they claim to be democratic, yet push their own dictatorship. But it gets worse – they openly aim to ...

State counties content on gravy train

Editor's corner

Oswego and Chautauqua counties share a number of similarities. For starters, in terms of population, Chautauqua ranks 23rd out of 62 New York state counties with 124,000 residents while Oswego is 24th with 118,000. Both also are located along shorelines of the Great Lakes — Lake Erie here, ...

Bills’ fans are smiling all week long

Commentary

ORCHARD PARK—Let’s pick up where we left off on the 30th anniversary of the most thrilling game in Buffalo Bills’ history. Yes, you know which one that is. It’s the Jan. 3, 1993, playoff game against the Houston Oilers. The Bills were down 28-3 at halftime, and it quickly got ...

9/11 A day we must never forget

The OBSERVER’s View

Americans today tend to have a short attention span. Important news often is quickly overshadowed by the latest nonsense posing as news that captures the nation’s attention. Yet some events are of such a magnitude that they remain seared in our memories. The attack at Pearl Harbor. Troops ...

Traveling for friendship

Commentary

How many miles do we travel for friendship? I had to ask myself that when the happy invitation arrived in the mail. For dear old friends, my thought is that no amount of miles is too far. In my heart, I certainly would take three flights to Patagonia, a 9-stop train ride, and walk the last ...

Democrats continue unfair attacks on Trump

Commentary

President Donald continues to be maligned at every opportunity by those infected with “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” a disease manifested in sufferers by an unthinking hate. A New York Times story, with the headline “Trump orders to strip union rights from nearly half a million ...