Thanks to the vaccine painstakingly developed by Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh, the majority of the 8 billion people alive on Earth today have never known a time when the possibly of contracting polio was a daily worry. Before the vaccine was first made available in 1954, it was ...

Designating Chautauqua Institution’s security staff as peace officers likely would not have prevented Hadi Matar of New Jersey from stabbing Salman Rushdie multiple times on the institution’s Amphitheater stage. The way security was deployed, Matar would likely still have reached the ...

Dunkirk has had some major summer celebrations in previous years that were tough to get behind. While the air show offered spectacular sights, the crowds did not support it in 2017. Boat races on Lake Erie soon followed, but each event was surrounded by some sort of trouble, especially in ...

There was an obvious separation of church and state in a recent Dunkirk Common Council decision. In a 3-2 vote, council members did not allow the local Jehovah’s Witness congregation to place information carts under the Central Avenue viaduct, the pier or local parks. Those members voting ...

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo deserves the right to mount a defense in the federal lawsuit filed earlier this year by an unnamed New York State Police officer who accuses Cuomo and others of violating her civil rights. But he does not deserve to have New York taxpayers pay for it. Cuomo filed a ...

Within the last two weeks, the topic of short-term rentals in area municipalities have become the focus of long-term discussions. In both the village of Cassadaga and the town of Dunkirk, debate on this issue has dominated the recent board meetings. To the credit of area elected leaders, they ...