The announcement of a $42,000 DEC grant to the Chautauqua Lake Partnership was easy to miss earlier this year, coming as it did only a couple of days before a judge announced Freshwater Wetland Act regulations the CLP and Chautauqua Lake Property Owners Association had been fighting in state ...

We noted last week that it is up to city residents - not city government - to rebuild the cohesive nature of Jamestown’s neighborhoods. A couple of days later, residents of Eighth and Fulton streets proved our point by becoming the first neighborhood to take the city and the Jamestown ...

Is Chautauqua County in a worse place than it was 15 years ago, as Democrats in the Chautauqua County Legislature contend? The answer to that question depends on one’s point of view. We've often said the government doesn't, by itself, attract jobs. It does, however, set the stage to ...

The redistricting wars are a relatively new phenomenon across the country. What began with President Donald Trump pushing Republican states to redraw their congressional boundaries to keep a Republican Congress has turned into a battle of political oneupmanship that New York just had to ...

There are a lot of questions regarding the siting of data centers in New York state. It didn’t seem like the questions were local ones until last week when the former NRG power plant in Dunkirk was sold to Genover, a company that repurposes old power plants. One of the uses the company ...

An initiative like Be A Neighbor JTNY wouldn’t have been needed 20 or 30 years ago. Even if you didn’t necessarily like your neighbor, we could hold polite conversation if we passed on the sidewalk or even simply give a quick wave as we drove by each other’s houses. It’s a pretty ...