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Opinion

April’s annual spring tease is in full swing

Commentary

Believe it or not, it’s Spring! If you look at a calendar, you will know I’m not lying. In fact, it’s been Spring for over a month, and the pictures on your April calendar probably show things like fields of green grass and budding flowers, robins dangling worms from their beaks, and ...

DUNKIRK: City silence not fixing huge deficit

The OBSERVER’s View

Elected city of Dunkirk officials who have voiced worries about the potential of a control board potentially overseeing operations are within their rights. But instead of looking out for its poorly managed government, shouldn’t this be about the current residents and future of the ...

Americans keep losing rights, voices

Commentary

No food, water or other supplies have entered Gaza since March. People are starving to death. People are dying of diseases because there is no clean water. Their relatives in Yemen, the Houthis, are desperate to do something. They are launching missile attacks on Israel. We are responding ...

State budget process is bad government

Commentary

This year, New York is struggling to pass a budget, for the third year in a row. If the Majority needed only to agree on how to spend billions of your tax dollars more than last year, the budget would be done on time. But our state government’s wasteful spending is only a part of the ...

POWs survive Soviet imprisonment

Commentary

IMPERIA, Italy — From the veranda of a couple’s vacation home is a stunningly beautiful view. Brightly painted modest homes dot the high hills along the shore of this city on the Italian Riviera. On a sunny afternoon with nary a cloud in the sky, the Mediterranean Sea is blue all the way ...

Fiscal firestorms fuel discontent at universities

Editor's corner

Throughout his nearly five-year tenure as State University of New York at Fredonia president, Stephen Kolison has — at least publicly — come across as soft spoken. During press conferences and while leading meetings, he has rarely appeared to be too optimistic or overly ...