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Club important supporter of sale

Editor, OBSERVER: A special thank you is offered to The Moniuszko Social Club for its continued support of the Lakeshore Humane Society annual yard sale, which is held annually at the Chautauqua County Fairgrounds in August. LAKESHORE HUMANE SOCIETY, Dunkirk

Reason for Trump’s shaky ground

Editor, OBSERVER: There are reasons to dislike President Donald Trump. Some include: Waged war without Congressional approval. Blocked release of Epstein files. Destroyed East Wing. Committed murder on the high seas. Pardoned 1,600 convicted criminals. Litigated frivolous "revenge" lawsuits. Tariffed and alienated most of our allies. Abused and killed US citizens by way of his ICE army. These are just a few of the reasons many Americans have come to despise Trump and the dreadful GOP. When the midterms roll around, Trump will start hearing the word "no" from the victorious ...

People’s column

Region needs to hear both sides Editor, OBSERVER: Thank you kindly Paul Somerfeldt, for standing up at a recent Dunkirk Economic Development meeting. Until now, we have been hearing from boosters of nuclear reactors and data centers. Those private companies have a clear agenda: — Purchase relatively inexpensive land. — Use a large body of water for heat load transfer.See: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2019/ph241/clark1/. — Take tax benefits which we pay to the state. — Sell energy to large urban areas. — Gain short term profits. There ...

People’s column

The OBSERVER’s View (July 30, 2026) states that “… no state official has indicated how struggling SUNY institutions are supposed to pay for these generous increases” in State University of New York salaries. In the midst of an international infectious epidemic in 2009, President George Bush recognized that the U.S. did not have sufficient vaccine production facilities to inoculate its own citizens. Overseas facilities were committed to the vaccine production for their own citizens. I suggested to then-Chautauqua County Executive Mark Thomas that the north county would be an ...

People’s column

Editor, OBSERVER: You know, Democrats talk all the time about how they hate President Donald Trump. They hate President Trump but they never say what he's doing specifically that they hate. So, is it the $1,000 trust fund for all the children being born? Just for being born. And when they become adults many of them will be millionaires, possibly multi-millionaires. Is it the lower drug cost on drugs that many of us use everyday through Trump RX? The fact that manufacturing is coming back to our country bringing high wage jobs like Toyota just announcing they are bringing Tacoma ...

People’s column

Editor, OBSERVER: Why do you publish opinions that contain inaccuracies and untruths? I am referring to the commentary about Social Democrats who the writer claims are Marxist or communists, which is not even close. We should not be confused with Democratic Socialist. We strongly support our system of Capitalism but believe that the citizens should have social benefits like Medicare, Medicaid, universal healthcare, subsidized childcare and more, paid for by taxing the very wealthy. I call myself a FDR Democrat. But besides the distortions and untruths about Social Democrats, my ...