This had almost slipped my mind.It was 50 years ago this week that I found myself incapacitated, suffering from an injury caused by a massive explosion at Uniontown High School.I had to be rushed to Uniontown Hospital, where I, and as many as 100 of my fellow students, was administered ...
<em>Chuck Muncie died of heart failure at the age of 60 last Tuesday. He left behind memories of a man who was universally respected and admired.</em>It was supposed to have been like any other early summer day in the East End of Uniontown. Eager children had ...
A wide majority of Americans support background checks for potential gun buyers at gun shows and online. Unfortunately, a wide majority of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate don鈥檛 seem to care what a majority of Americans support.Last month, when Republicans (and a few Democrats) voted to ...
This happens twice every year.I run through the house, and find every clock and either move it an hour forward, or an hour backward.Modern technology, it seems, has given us clocks everywhere.Cable boxes, ovens (microwave and conventional), pictures, computers and in our cars.My only fear is ...
Thomas Herndon was given a homework assignment.His goal was to take a well-known and frequently-quoted economics study and figure out how the researchers came to their conclusions.Herndon, a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, gladly took that assignment. But he soon ...
During the summer of 1996, an innocent man became the target of an investigation after a horrendous crime.Richard W. Jewell, who had been working security at night and as a police officer during the day, not only had nothing to do with the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, he鈥檇 been the first ...