For the better part of a decade, I鈥檝e written (my estimate) 448 political and non-political columns that have filled this space. I鈥檓 sure nobody does a word count, but each of those columns contains exactly 700 words.I鈥檓 guessing I鈥檝e used 316,600 words that could never confuse anybody ...
While there鈥檚 probably a good bit of truth about that old saw, 鈥淭he more things change, the more they stay the same,鈥� I鈥檇 never given it much thought until I began looking back at old newspapers.Things have certainly 鈥渃hanged鈥� since the early years of the 20th century, when there ...
It looked like a great time the members of the 1972 Super Bowl champion Miami Dolphins were having with President Barack Obama last week. Too bad three members of that team decided they had better things to do that day.NFL Hall of Famer Jim Langer, the center on that undefeated team, told a ...
North Carolina will soon be nearly free of voter fraud.In fact, it鈥檚 always been nearly free of voter fraud.Almost seven million North Carolinians cast votes during the 2012 general election.Of those seven million votes, only 0.00174 percent of them were suspected of being cast ...
I found a strange local story that appeared in the July 23, 1953, edition of the Uniontown Evening Standard.鈥淕irl mauled in local store,'' was the headline for a story about Terry Denim, who found herself having a harrowing experience at the Kaybee Store on West Main Street in Uniontown.Denim ...
The Republicans did it again. They鈥檝e 鈥渞epealed鈥� Obamacare. There鈥檚 a reason why I put these (" ") around the word repeal. Because Obamacare isn鈥檛 going anywhere.On Aug. 2, every Republican in the U.S. House wasted their time, and our tax dollars, by voting to repeal the Affordable ...