Campaign season is upon us. Always earnest, sometimes farcical, but now grim as all get-out, politics takes center stage, along with football, football, and, yes, more football.In particular, and despite the best efforts of county Commissioners Scott Dunn and David Lohr (acting as members of ...
It鈥檚 that time of the year.Schools all over the country are reopening.It鈥檚 been 60 years since I first walked through the doors at Park Elementary School, up there on Connellsville Street, to begin my educational journey.I still miss those days.To me, aside from Christmases and my ...
Having lost her seat in the House from Wyoming, Liz Cheney appears poised to run for president. A Republican, her goal will be to keep Donald Trump as far away from the White House as possible.鈥淥f course she doesn鈥檛 win [the nomination],鈥� Bill Kristol, the neo-conservative, Never-Trumper, ...
Recently, Republicans have had cold political waters doused on their faces.They stood by, turning their thumbs down repeatedly, while their fellow Senate Democrats unanimously passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.The only contribution Senate Republicans made to the legislation was forcing ...
David McCullough, who died last week at the age of 89, claimed to be a writer first, a historian second. A native of Pittsburgh (the 16th Street Bridge was renamed in his honor in 2013), McCullough was a master of the English language, as he demonstrated in a series of best-selling books, ...
I was one of the lucky ones.I served in Vietnam from May 1969 until May 1970.So, when I was diagnosed with third-stage lung cancer 鈥� 10 years ago next month 鈥� I happened to qualify under the Veterans Affairs' list of 鈥減resumptive diseases鈥� for Vietnam-era vets who were exposed to the ...
