It should come as no surprise to city residents that the Jamestown City Council is likely to override the state’s 2% tax cap when it meets for its voting session in May. The end of American Rescue Plan Act funding removes an outside revenue sources that could have helped to eliminate a tax ...
To borrow from Ron Burgundy, we have a breaking and urgent news bulletin - Jamestown has a deer problem. Of course, anyone who lives in Jamestown knows this. And, as the four incumbents on the City Council know, trying to deal with the deer problem is a no-win situation. The council can’t ...
There are going to be some who will be upset if the Chautauqua County Legislature approves a $200,000 allocation to the National Comedy Center when the legislature meets Wednesday. We understand the concerns. Millions of government dollars have been given to help build the center, and ...
Chautauqua Institution officials announced a new president with quite an impressive resume. Mark Coolidge Johnson is a senior Foreign Services Officer and attorney - as well as a third-generation Chautauquan. Johnson currently serves as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico ...
The more time one gets to look at the judge’s decision in local lawsuits challenging the state’s Freshwater Wetlands Act regulations, the more it is clear that the regulations are likely merely delayed, not dead. Judge Richard Platkin’s ruling last week in state Supreme Court in Albany ...
Growing Plutocracy Has Risen To Power In America To the Readers’ Forum: We can thank the shortsightedness of the Roberts Court for the rise of a plutocracy in America that gave us a Donald Trump. On January 21, 2010, in Citizens United v. F.E.C., the Roberts Court opened the door for ...