It is little secret that affordable housing in Jamestown is a problem, though in recent years the affordable housing crunch has shown up most publicly in the number of people being housed in hotels and motels throughout the county. So it is little surprise why documentary photographer Karen ...
There was an interesting debate during a recent Chautauqua County Legislature meeting over the county’s ever-escalating safety net program costs. Lawmakers delayed a vote in June on a resolution that would have spent a $2.8 million from the county’s surplus to pay for safety net costs ...
It’s hard to imagine a time when the Chautauqua Belle wasn’t a fixture on the waters of Chautauqua Lake. But that’s exactly what our reality would be if not for James Webster, the Rochester man who had the vision to bring a paddlewheel steamship to Chautauqua Lake in the early 1970s. ...
State lawmakers, largely Democrats, want to increase Open Meetings Law and FOIL request training requirements for local government officials. Given the recent altercation in the Chautauqua County records room involving a self-proclaimed First Amendment auditor, the training likely isn't a bad ...
To The Reader’s Forum: The Supreme Court’s vision of the constitutional legitimacy of the exercise of authority by each Branch of Government – in and by itself – unrelated to the Separation of Powers doctrine, is poorly conceived. The Constitution delineates the authority of each ...
To The Reader’s Forum: “The world goes along only one road -- the road of progress.” -Charles Kettering, American businessman, 1929. The rhetoric is everywhere: AI is an “inevitable” part of modern life, and people who question the truth of this phrase are reactionaries clinging ...