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Getting ready for some baseball

Pitchers and catchers reported last week.To be more precise, the Pittsburgh Pirates are preparing to defend their newfound empire against all enemies, foreign (the Cincinnati Reds) and domestic (themselves).With the Pirates heading to Bradenton (position players are scheduled to report today), ...

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It certainly must have raised lots of eyebrows in Uniontown on Feb. 18, 1952, when the readers of the Evening Standard learned that 鈥淯niontown (is) Going To (the) Dogs.鈥漈hat was according to Uniontown鈥檚 Police Chief Alfred W. Davis, who was fed up with all of the stray dogs that had begun ...

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I鈥檓 always pleasantly surprised when I research one of these columns, and I discover facts that I鈥檇 never considered.While we see paid television services like Netflix as being the latest in the marriage of high-tech TV and telephone technologies, it鈥檚 really been more than 60 years that ...

Coca Cola ad stirs controvesy

Well, Coca Cola has gone and done it. It鈥檚 managed to tick-off that fragile segment of the America that can鈥檛 stand to hear people from all over the world sing.It didn鈥檛 used to be that way.Back in 1971, it wowed much of America with that catchy, multicultural ditty -- 鈥淚鈥檇 Like to ...

What鈥檚 a Kommandant-in-Chef?

President Obama has gone too far (they say). They claim he鈥檚 become a 鈥淜ommandant-in-chef.鈥 (Whatever that is.) That they, by the way, is a group of Republicans who seem to have something against higher wages for workers under government contracts.During last week鈥檚 State of the Union ...

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There鈥檚 a popular theory known as 鈥淪ix Degrees of Separation,鈥 that鈥檚 rooted in scientific study, and has been the basis for a number of entertainment vehicles. (The 1993 movie by that name, which starred Will Smith, Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing, is just one of a half dozen ...