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Trick or Treat, “Voodoo Economics” creates wealth gap

Letters To The Editor

To The Reader’s Forum: Without question, our representatives should promote the general welfare above powerful minority, special interests in our national economic policies. A representative, democratic government can behave in no other manner and continue to claim to be representative. It is not the so-called “elitist” Democrats, however, who left the working class behind; it was and is the Republicans. For decades, our politicians, especially conservative politicians, embraced economic policies based, in large part, on supply-side economic theory, that rewards the ...

Once in a generation election

Local Commentaries

This past election I would say was a “once in a generation” event. The only other election as one-sided that I can remember was in 1964 when Barry Goldwater ran against Lyndon Johnson for President. This past week was an election night to remember for Democrats, and they deserve credit for recruiting good candidates throughout the country. I suppose that some Democrats might believe that this crushing defeat for Republicans in the Congress represents a fundamental shift in our politics. Yet, I look upon it more as a vote against Trump, Trumpism, MAGA, and all that came with ...

Developer putting hotel on the market speaks volumes

In Our Opinion

We’ve raised questions about the number of visitors to downtown Jamestown in the past. The Hamister Group has raised the issue in a way that we can’t by putting the Doubletree Hotel on Fourth Street on the market. The development group - which reopened the formerly closed Holiday Inn in 2019 after a six-year closure - says business that dropped off during the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t rebounded enough in the ensuing six years. The property went on the market a few months ago with no price, but the listing identifies the opportunity as a bank short sale available significantly ...

Community Helping Hands and what’s next

Local Commentaries

When I am out and about in the Jamestown area, people often ask me about Community Helping Hands and what is happening there. Here are clarifications and updates. Community Helping Hands has operated on a thrift store business model, taking donations of clothing, household goods and furniture and selling these items to people looking for a bargain. CHH also provided these donated items to those in need as identified by other agencies and churches. Over the years, donations became a way for folks to get rid of unwanted items that could not be used by anyone and were certainly ...

Anti-human, unscientific agenda of the latest climate talks

Local Commentaries

AP’s Seth Borenstein continues to fan the flames of the climate alarmism scam (“UN Climate talks start in year of disasters…“ PJ 11 7 26) in preparation for the latest UN climate talks (COP31) in Turkey in November. Natural disasters did not begin when Seth Borenstein began to report them. They have not been increasing in magnitude. In fact, there are fewer deaths related to so-called natural disasters in the 21st century than in the past. Throughout recorded history, massive geographical and meteorological events have caused devastating losses. Many of history's most ...

How, when will New York hit bottom?

Local Commentaries

Let’s pick up where we left off last week. As Ken Blackwell wrote at https://www.facebook.com/blackwellohio on Nov. 5, it’s time to tell “a bruised and bloodied team to get back out on the field and fight again.” He urges those dissatisfied with 2026 election results to “stop ...