Today, I鈥檓 26,833 days old.That鈥檚 not a milestone.It鈥檚 just another way of saying I鈥檓 currently in my 73rd year.It鈥檚 also my way of saying I got lots of memories.I鈥檇 better put some of them on paper before I forget I experienced them.Here鈥檚 one.Back in 1979, while working as a ...
In late May 1930, O鈥橬eil Kennedy made his way from his office at the corner of Pittsburgh and Peter streets to a platform several blocks away, on Church Street, for a ceremony marking the start of construction on a new Bell Telephone building in Uniontown.(The building is still there, across ...
Take that!We sure showed the French that we Americans were nothing to mess with back in 2003.When President George Bush was revving up the U.S. war machine and aiming it directly at Saddam Hussein鈥檚 Iraq back then, France demurred.French Minister of Foreign Affairs Dominique de Villepin ...
Longtime lawmaker John Murtha was an important foreign policy figure in Washington. The Johnstown congressman, who died 12 years ago at the age of 77, was a force to be reckoned with, even by presidents.A Democrat who at one time or another represented Fayette and portions of Washington County, ...
The United States of America is not at war.Not now.Yet.Unless, of course, you count those ever-persistent political skirmishes.That never stops.There are no American troops on the ground in Ukraine.You wouldn鈥檛 know that if you only listened to some of the crowing that鈥檚 going on these ...
Yours truly poked his ear into a 鈥渢elephone town hall鈥� the other evening featuring Uniontown鈥檚 representative in the Pennsylvania House, Matthew Dowling, a Republican.Dowling, who was in a serious vehicle accident in October 2021, sounded in fine voice. How he felt he didn鈥檛 say. Even ...
