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Hannity is to journalism, what finger painting is to art

Sean Hannity isn鈥檛 a journalist. He鈥檚 a performance artist.He spends his weekdays on the radio and his weeknights on Fox News, extolling all things Trump.He鈥檚 good at what he does, but he shouldn鈥檛 be confused with people who make their livings chasing facts.As Ted Koppel (a real ...

Old letters help us reconnect to the past

There鈥檚 hardly any better way to reconstruct the past than to have old letters in hand. Among the letters kept for decades in the attic of his home on South Mount Vernon Avenue by the late, great federal judge Edward Dumbauld were a dozen or so he received from an old high school friend by ...

Flying off the handle into the stone age

Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and 鈥渟mart!鈥滱 President Trump tweet, 3:57 AM, April 11, 2018-----There are times when President Trump seems to think he鈥檚 John Wayne in the movie True Grit.He鈥檚 the ...

Dumbauld letters unique look into early local politics

It鈥檚 not right to read someone else鈥檚 mail. But I suppose it鈥檚 OK if the mail has turned 90 and everyone is dead. So let鈥檚 peek inside some letters addressed to and preserved by a young man from Uniontown; by name, Edward Dumbauld.From his mother Lissa, no doubt written at the Dumbauld ...

The Robots Heard 鈥楻ound the World

And now, a little bit about myself.Back in 1982, I became the entertainment editor for the NBC affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona 鈥 KPNX-TV.That meant I鈥檇 review movies and local restaurants, cover concerts, interview movie and TV stars, and have as much fun as allowable by law.That is, until ...

Trump is no Truman

When Harry Truman became president, he had no foreign policy experience. As a two-term Missouri senator, Truman was the compromise choice as Franklin Roosevelt鈥檚 running mate in the 1944 election.With FDR鈥檚 death on April 12, 1945, Truman stepped from the wings to center stage. In the ...