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Opinion

Turning a blind eye to world’s problems

Commentary

Some 500,000 people in Gaza are facing imminent death from starvation. We are financing this. Their blood is on our hands. Starvation is a very slow, painful death. Elon Musk’s Tesla company paid no taxes last year. That is why we are broke. We are living in a time when there is enough ...

AIR TRAVEL: FAA must start to address worries

The OBSERVER’s View

Until the midair collision that claimed 67 lives on Jan. 29 near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, followed soon thereafter by a number of other incidents involving planes, some of those incidents also resulting in fatalities, members of the flying public generally had exuded great ...

Fly U.S. flag while remembering sacrifices

Commentary

On Monday, the city of Dunkirk and a number of other area communities will honor its local veterans who had served or paid the ultimate price to protect and defend our country. Our country lists five official wars along with two police actions in Korea and Vietnam and the operations in ...

We’ll pay later for free-money gimmick

Editor's corner

One of the most significant lessons schools, governments and elected leaders were supposed to have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic revolved around the hazards that come with giving away cash. The first windfall allowed to happen in 2020 was in the form of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and ...

SUNY FREDONIA: Getting a grip on fiscal picture

The OBSERVER’s View

It appears as if the State University of New York at Fredonia has found the right person to right the financial ship. During the recent College Council meeting this month, Wayne Lynch spoke frankly about a troubling deficit that is being whittled down. “Current expenses are not reflective ...