This month’s finance committee gave Dunkirk residents some dreadful insight as to potential leadership in the city after this administration. With Republicans gaining momentum — while doing nothing in the last four years to better it — they received a bleak picture of the current money ...

Reducing the national debt, even just a little. Providing working-class families with tax relief. Providing the men and women enlisted in our armed services with a pay increase. Increasing the reservoir of funding for Social Security benefits to mitigate its fast-approaching ...

We can’t agree more with the New York Coalition for Open Government — more local governments need to be streaming their meetings online. The coalition recently released results of a survey detailing how many villages, towns and cities in the state outside New York City stream ...

ImmunityBio’s possible future in Dunkirk continues to look like a shaky proposition. Last week, it was announced the company faces class action lawsuit from an Atlanta law firm that alleges the business misled investors about a drug that was later rejected by the FDA. The suit was filed in ...

The word legend is often carelessly bandied about in our society these days. But when you talk about Don Reinhoudt, we’re not sure legend a big or strong enough word. Most area residents know about Reinhoudt’s feats of strength. In the late 1970s and early 1980s Reinhoudt won five ...

Why did Chautauqua County have to pass resolutions asking the state Legislature to pass extensions of its occupancy and sales taxes this year? Because the state Constitution requires a home rule request for such legislation to be brought to the state Legislature floor. But apparently the ...