We have complained for years about more than $30 million in reserves for Chautauqua County. Pine Valley Central Schools is even more guilty. In recent years, Pine Valley built its unassigned fund balance to roughly 30% of the succeeding year’s budget — dramatically higher than ...

Too many senior citizens in New York state don’t have access to affordable dental care. That fact makes it hard to disagree with legislation (A.11235/S.7594) introduced by Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright and Sen. Cordell Cleare that would require the NY State of Health Marketplace to ...

The legal fight over the Office of Cannabis Management’s seizure of illegal cannabis products from state-licensed hemp stores is fascinating. So is the state’s response to a state Supreme Court ruling saying the seizures violate the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Super Smoke N ...

There are a lot of concerns over the ways Chautauqua County’s lead rental registry and Jamestown’s rental property registry will affect property owners, property managers and, potentially, realtors. The issues have been discussed and talked about over the past few years, but frankly ...

When it comes to economic development in the greater Jamestown area, it feels as if we’re taking two steps forward and one step back. It’s an improvement from 10 years ago, when the story was one step forward and two steps back. It’s an interesting concept to consider as we ponder ...

Florida was supposed to be the finale of this year’s race to the bottom on redistricting. Yet a cacophonous encore is now playing across the South after a Supreme Court ruling last week. The GOP started it in Texas last summer. A back-and-forth ensued, with Democrats redrawing maps in ...