"Easter in St. Mary's marked by another riot,'' read the front-page headline that greeted readers of the Uniontown Morning Herald 99 years ago today.There had been a 鈥渂loody fight鈥� that had erupted at St. Mary鈥檚 Greek Catholic Church in New Salem right after the Easter Sunday sermon.While ...
<em>"The way President Obama runs down the stairs of Air Force 1, hoping (sic), bobing (sic) and jumping all the way, is so inelegant and so unpresidential.''</em>-- Billionaire/entrepreneur/reality TV show host/failed birther, Donald Trump on TwitterAs if Donald ...
There was a time, I鈥檓 told, that young children, exasperated by their 鈥渙verbearing鈥� parents, would entertain notions of 鈥渞unning away with the circus.鈥滻magine the surprise that greeted Uniontown鈥檚 newspaper readers when they opened their editions of the Morning Herald on April 25, ...
<em>鈥淭he best way to improve economic prospects for women is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if that means increasing the so-called pay gap."</em>-- Conservative activist and anti-feminist, Phyllis Schlafly'Phyllis Schlafly Speaks 鈥� ...
Have you heard that r-r-r-r-r-ing sound lately? It鈥檚 Lyndon Johnson spinning in his grave.His greatest presidential achievement, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was honored last week at the LBJ Library in Texas.All five of the living U.S. presidents made their pilgrimage to pay their respects ...
While the 1920鈥檚 have been characterized as 鈥淭he Roaring Twenties,鈥� because there was widespread social, technological, and economic growth across the country, lawlessness, too, was rampant.According to a headline on the front page of the Uniontown Morning Herald on April 15, 1929, 鈥�14 ...