The handwriting has been on the wall for quite some time that New York wouldn’t be able to the requirements laid out in 2019’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. That was the controversial - and ultimately unrealistic - legislation that requires 70% of the state’s ...

Wednesday’s budget presentation at Dunkirk’s City Hall is exactly the reason New York state failed the municipality by not instituting a control board to oversee its finances. This is not to place blame on a nine-month mayor who has been placed into a situation of fiscal disarray, but just ...

Enough is enough. It’s time to play hardball with the miscreants who wreak havoc on school districts here and across the country by making threats of shootings or bombings. Almost every time, the threats turn out to be unfounded and were simply an attempt to disrupt the educational ...

Brocton Trustee Ed Bellando seems to be overreacting when it comes to asking village attorney Peter Clark to resign. While we agree with a lot of Bellando’s questions, he certainly does not understand the landscape when it comes to municipal attorneys. Even if he’s not happy with the ...

The state Board of Regents quietly delayed approval of a regulation that would have approved more gender neutral sports in New York’s high schools. It was a good decision to do so - and we hope the delay is lengthy. There was no explanation for the delay nor discussion at the most ...

Today’s discussion on Buffalo sports is likely to center around Monday night’s Bills-Jacksonville Jaguars game. But there is a collegiate team that is aiming to do some big things this year. On Saturday the University at Buffalo Bulls upset No. 23 Northern Illinois University — on the ...