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The kingmaker speaks

It鈥檚 as if Donald Trump never left the presidency.He still holds those exuberant campaign rallies with a not-too-carefully concealed eye on an attempted return to the White House.And he still holds court by becoming quite the kingmaker.Something for which he seems to be well-suited.Many ...

Here dissent is good, there, nyet

Widely speculated on in the press and elsewhere is that Russian president Vladimir Putin governs largely in the dark. Ruling the Kremlin with an iron fist, Putin, so the thinking goes, hears only what he wants to hear about Ukraine and much else.Bad news is filtered out. Only good news finds ...

Spring and renewal!

Mondays after Easter Sundays were always special to me when I was a kid.That meant if there were any playgrounds or empty fields within scurrying distance, they鈥檇 soon be populated by after-school kids indefatigably engaged in all manner of exuberant activities.Allow me to unravel that. ...

Baseball: national pastime or a sport gone bad?

As for saving the national pastime from tedium, here鈥檚 the bottom line: It鈥檚 going to be tough.Tough because there are considerable differences between baseball today and when it rode atop American sports. As for some of those differences, we might consider the performance of Yankee great ...

If it ain鈥檛 broke, fix it anyway

Republicans think they have a sure-fire formula for staying relevant and in office.Run campaign ads, in which they promise to block the teaching of Critical Race Theory and sex education in kindergartens while cleaning up the scourge of widespread voter fraud; then stick the word 鈥渨oke鈥 in ...

Local officials should act 鈥 now

Debby Miller can鈥檛 shake one horrible memory.Miller, 68, told me the other day that when she was pregnant and living near the city school building on Connellsville Street in Uniontown, a youngster was struck by a car.The little boy died.鈥淚t was so tragic,鈥 Miller said. 鈥淚 cried for ...