We can all see that we need more family sustaining jobs in Chautauqua County. The poverty rate countywide was 16.7% in July 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, with that rate rising to 24% in Jamestown and 24.9% in Dunkirk. The best way to decrease those percentages is to increase ...
Chautauqua Institution is known around the world as a place for civil dialogue and conversation. Closer to home, here in Chautauqua County, the Institution is known as a stronghold for financial support to the area. In Chautauqua County alone, $233 million in total economic impact is generated, ...
There is a country song about a trucker on the road who is “looking at the world through a windshield.” It has made me think, over the years, that in actuality...we all see life through a windshield. The way we were brought up, what we were taught, where we were born—all of it is a ...
I am an immigrant. There was no doubt in my mind that I would be entering 2025 with anything other than fear for what the new administration would mean for the over twenty million non-US born individuals living in the United States, many of my loved ones included. What I hadn’t been able to ...
“I can say confidently that under the Trump Administration we are witnessing the renewal of the American Dream” The office of MAGA cheerleader, Congressman Nick Langworthy, releases a weekly newsletter to his constituents in Western New York’s 23rd Congressional district. The district ...
We are deeply concerned about the misrepresentations surrounding decisions by a federal judge, James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C. To be clear, Judge Boasberg has not ruled that criminal immigrants or violent immigrants cannot be deported. What ...