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The 2020 presidential election is over, and it’s time to look ahead. Looking ahead includes fully reviewing illegalities in the 2020 election, regardless of whether they changed the result, plus carefully and fairly restoring the rule of law to American elections, all with an eye toward preventing future illegalities no matter whom they’d benefit. Such review and restoration will benefit from the constructive participation of Americans of all political persuasions, although beneficiaries of 2020 illegalities may be reluctant to have, much less participate constructively in, such review or...

Marcia Johnson To tell you the truth, my first thought on reading Mark Twichell’s commentary on wind turbines in Lake Erie was, huh? Climate change won’t be mitigated by renewable wind power? Turbines are a bigger pollution threat than fossil fuels? Are we living in the same world? Some of Mr. Twichell’s concerns do require more explanation to allay, but let’s begin at the beginning. Renewable energy is how we are going to reduce our burning of fossil fuels. Reducing the use of fossil fuels and replacing them with wind and other forms of renewable power is how we can mitigate climate ...

J. Paul Lombardo It was just six days after the symbolic celebration of the end of 2020, and the positivity of looking forward to a new year with the arrival of our new granddaughter, the hopeful success of the pandemic vaccine, the hope of baseball returning with fans in the stands, The NFL Draft in Cleveland, and the July Jimmy Buffett Concert for which we have tickets, headlining our plans for 2021. Being a week where the Jamestown Schools were on complete remote instruction, and no subbing jobs being available, and not receiving a call from the Falconer Schools needing coverage, I tried t...

Marshall Greenstein We met Kayla and Kent at the first of three installments. A couple nearing retirement ages face a dual blow of respective job layoffs. The Coronavirus had forced them to survive financially on Social Security, plus some savings. Residents of Pennsylvania, they had not yet received unemployment benefits. Kayla worked as a desk clerk. Kent worked as a restaurant cook. Both places shut down. They spoke proudly of raising two capable children who completed college on scholarships. Both were living independently. Kayla and Kent purchased a camper for prospective travel to nat...