Back on December 15th after awakening at my usual 2 a.m.-ish time, I found an email on my phone from the New York Times (they are trying to recruit me as a subscriber), as I do about a dozen times a day. The first story they shared before all the popups thwarted my attempt to read more, was the ...

When I was on the campaign trail for Chautauqua County Clerk, the news stories about possible wrongdoing at our county DMV locations were impossible to miss. County residents were receiving toll charges, in some cases thousands of dollars, for tolls and speeding infractions on license ...

MAYVILLE—Sometimes the most forward-thinking among us are those first to realize they took a wrong turn, and then reverse course and take the right road. In that light, congratulations go to the Chautauqua County legislature. Let’s set the stage. During its regular meetings, the ...

Do your eyes lie or is it your mind struggling to erase what your eyes have seen? If you never saw the videos of Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s deaths, you could just accept the news that they were provocateurs and deserved to be shot. You could choose to believe what you hear. The operative ...

Last weekend’s papers had the County Legislature’s Republican majority leader, Jamie Gustafson, critical of the three provisions of the “Affordability Act of 2026” introduced at the January County Legislature meeting by me as the assistant minority leader and Bob Banksoski, the minority ...

Today marks another day to celebrate Love, and the feelings we have toward special people in our lives, be it True Love, Puppy Love, Love and Marriage, Crush Love, and/or any other type of feeling that makes us all “googlie ooglie” inside for that someone special. In what has become a ...