In the land of coal and coke, the H.C. Frick Company reigned supreme, which is not to say the company had the entire Connellsville Coke Region, stretching from Latrobe to Fairchance, to itself.There was, for instance, the Oliver and Snyder Steel Company, which operated, early in the 20th ...
I suppose it takes a half generation or so for the collective memory to slip. I recently asked the person I was sitting with at a high school basketball game if she recalled the nickname formerly used by Connellsville sports teams.Today, it鈥檚 the Falcons. Before the Falcons, it was ... ...
Donald Trump sent a terse letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Last Tuesday.It was a six-page, 2,774-word diatribe that supposedly presented Trump鈥檚 defense against the impending impeachment proceedings that engulf his presidency.It was a doozy.There鈥檚 been some speculation that the letter ...
In recent months I鈥檝e had occasion to mention two books by the great Rick Atkinson, a former newspaperman and a Pulitzer winner for his reporting of the first Iraq war.More about The British Are Coming and The Guns at Last Light in a moment.But first, with Christmas just days away, I thought ...
<em>聽鈥淢y friends, it鈥檚 a sad state of affairs when truthtellers have no place in Trump鈥檚 Washington.鈥�</em><em>-- Sen. Charles Schumer, (D-NY), during a floor speech on Dec. 10</em>Last Tuesday was a momentous day in the presidency ...
<span class="print_trim">By Richard Robbins</span>Let鈥檚 say you are a guy who started out working at a steel mill in 1970, got married, had kids and bought a house, was laid off when the steel industry crashed, took classes to learn, oh, plumbing, but for one ...