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Opinion

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 ...

FREDONIA: Is this the time to worry about Non Fred Fest?

The OBSERVER’s View

Trust us, we can understand Fredonia Mayor Mike Ferguson’s feelings regarding recent comments made by State University at Fredonia students regarding the village’s handling of water issues and non Fred Fest. Fredonia students quoted in the student newspaper and an editorial written by a ...

Democrats hate Trump for being a pragmatist

Commentary

After extended research into the reasons progressives have developed an unreasoning hatred for Donald Trump I think I have discovered the deep seated source of that hate. It’s not that he is a populist looking to return government to the people, nor is it the fact that he is a brash ...