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The OBSERVER’s View

ELECTION DAY Big bucks part of the process

Today is Election Day, the culmination of what feels like two years of campaigning by presidential candidates. More than $1 billion will have been spent by Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in an effort to secure your vote. Another $250,000 ...

DUNKIRK Events feed at lunch, benefit organizations

A city church is giving back by way of hot dog sales. As noted in an article last week, St. John’s United Church of Christ in Dunkirk held its final lunch event last month. Sale proceeds help many of the nonprofits that help those in need around the north county. Those include: Rural ...

DUNKIRK: City needs relief, not tax doubling

So far, the city of Dunkirk has done little to nothing to decrease the proposed 108% tax increase in the 2025 spending plan. Sure, Common Council members have met but for the most part their hands are tied due to contractual obligations. There has been only one true alternative mentioned to ...

NATION: Does U.S. need new policy for families?

It is difficult not to be pessimistic about the possibilities for success of efforts in countries around the world to encourage larger families — that is, if you yourself believe many more couples should be opting for more than a child or two in this increasingly busy, expensive, complicated, ...

CHILD CARE: Grant for agency will have ripple effect

There are many in our area whose children will never set foot in the Boys and Girls Club of Northern Chautauqua County. But for those families who use the club’s programs, recent news that a state grant will provide a significant boost in operating funding is outstanding news. The state is ...

ENDORSEMENT: There’s a ‘chaos’ to Proposition 1

New York’s Civil Liberties Union calls Proposal 1 “a critical tool for all New Yorkers to exercise their rights.” Labeled as the Equal Rights Amendment, the action would amend the New York state Constitution to include ethnicity, national origin, age, disability or sex, including sexual ...