Chris Carosa

Have you ever had to describe the indescribable? It’s hard. It’s frustrating. Yet, the urge to do it overwhelms you. You want to share something so profound you can’t hold back. Do you remember how agonizing your

What is it that they say about the law of unintended consequences? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “Will Teenage Minimum Wage Hurt The Poor?” and discover how people who mistakenly place emotion over math may a

The new Space Race is great news for all humanity. It’s just what’s needed to break the stranglehold totalitarian regimes have on their citizens. Don’t know why? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “Hooray

Hollywood used to have no problem coming up with a cornucopia of bad guys. Sure, it went through spurts when one archetype or another would end up hogging all the screen time. It wasn’t until the Nazis, however, t

The story of us – the Greater Western New York Region – begins on a late Summer day in August of 1779. It wasn’t the best of times, but it wasn’t the worst of times. What it was, however, was the first time tr

We can all agree on the problem. It’s the solution, or rather, the spectrum of solutions, which causes debate. Each has its own advantages. Each has its own disadvantages. Which do you think is best? Read this w

You may have read about the “Greater Idaho” movement, where a number of counties in the state of Oregon have decided to separate and join Idaho. That’s just one of several states where there’s an active discuss

There’s more to history than what today’s headlines say. In fact, sometimes actual history turns out to be quite different than what current writers would have you believe. That’s too bad because the topic de jo

Through the generations, the things that matter most are passed down in seemingly mundane ways. Yet, they form the basis of our lives and our children’s lives and our children’s children’s lives. What are they?

We often hear a phrase and naturally assume it’s been with us forever. Many times, we mistake its origin. What happens when we rediscover its inventive source? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “Did You Know

OK, this can get embarrassing. How many times have you held yourself back from asking a “stupid” question? It turns out, what’s obvious and stupid to you is often neither obvious or stupid to someone else. Still

Why is it that hamburgers fascinate us so much? It seems like there are more variations of hamburgers than there are stars in the sky (but not as many variations of pizza). If you had to choose your favorite,

A frog will boil to death if placed in lukewarm water that’s slowly heated. In the same way, we lose our voice every time a bully nudges us further into silence. Most people don’t notice the boiling water of opp

What does it mean to be an optimist? From where does optimism come from? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “‘There Must Be A Pony In Here Somewhere!’” to find the answers to these questions, and, along the way,

Sometimes movies represent an escape. Oftentimes, though, they represent an ideal to strive for, a moral lesson we can apply to our lives every day, and, in the best examples, a template for success. What does

Here’s an interesting idea. Let’s take the same logic used in Washington D.C. and apply it to our own region. It’s amazing how, if applied consistently, we can gain our independence. Don’t believe it? Read this we

Can you imagine what frontier life was once like? Believe it or not, we were once frontier. In fact, we were America’s First Frontier. How did we then blossom? Read “The Story of Abraham Parrish, Mendon’s First

Take a look at this week’s front page. Given the extraordinary circumstances and the importance of the content of this week’s issue, anyone can view the entire issue by registering for free and logging on when cli

Do you know there was a civil war between two colonies before the Revolutionary War? And then it erupted anew immediately after the conclusion of the War for Independence? Why is that important to us? Read “The S