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The bridge is in a race with winter (opens the original)
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It looks to me like construction activity has been increasing on the Chautauqua Lake Bridge as winter begins to close in. Will the DOT be able to beat winter and finish the two lanes on the southside before the construction season ends? I would say that the chances are "fifty-fifty," yet, let's hope that it can be done. The pouring of new concrete decking has been accelerating. There are now two concrete leveling machines in view on the bridge so that two sections of new deck can be laid at the
The surreal Republican Convention in Dallas (opens the original)
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"Surreal" is a subjective term describing something that is beyond normal reality…like something out of a dream. That is the way it seemed with the special Republican Convention called by President Donald Trump last week in Dallas. It wasn't a serious political convention with any real substance. It was a Trump pep rally--a call to the MAGA troops not to look at the price of gasoline or the ongoing war in Iran…but to think about all of the good things going on like the new ballroom at the White
The matter of population decline (opens the original)
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The facts are clear and not much in dispute that Chautauqua County has over the past few decades been experiencing population decline. Some of this is related to government policies (or lack thereof,) and some of it by the fact that we are not in a growth area of the country. Since World War II, the air conditioner has made living and working in the South a viable option. Southern states also tend to have lower regulatory standards, and, as "right to work" states, employers in these states do no
Thinking about the downside of bigness (opens the original)
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We have had a tradition in America, not always but mostly, of trying to avoid the perils of businesses that get too big. The most prominent example in our history was likely the passage of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act which became law in 1890. Though its primary target, twenty years later, became John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company--its original passage resulted from a growing public concern about the concentration of power in big business, the elimination of competition and the resultant d
250th anniversary of the United States a big deal (opens the original)
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As it should be, a lot has been made this year of the 250th anniversary (birthday) of our country. It is a time to reflect back on what it has taken to bring us to where we are today. One of my siblings reminded me that, in fact, we have been alive for about 1/3rd of that time — just think about it. If you divide 250 by three … you get my age! Either I am very old or the country is very young — and both are true. It made me reflect back upon conversations with my father. He told us that in discu
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