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Huge role ahead for local officials

It鈥檚 been reported that both Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo are gearing up to hire a 鈥渟ignificant number of people鈥 in the coming weeks and months.The new hires, stemming from the mammoth $1.2 trillion infrastructure legislation passed by ...

It鈥檚 a Merry, Happy, Christmas, folks!

Ah, 鈥榯is the season to be jolly, but to also be online searching for the best deals.Online shopping could account for as much as $200 billion in U.S. sales this holiday season.Heck! When I was a kid, the only online my parents knew, was standing "online" to pick up their layaways at the local ...

Dems may be too late with projects

In politics, timing is everything. Democrats have a timing problem.At issue is the rollout of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure program passed by bipartisan votes in Congress, but whose journey through the congressional meat grinder was largely engineered by Democrats, including the Biden White ...

This week in (phony) right-wing outrage

Right-wingers are lining up to take cheap shots at Democrats nowadays.They don鈥檛 have anything better to do, I suppose.The folks over at Fox & Friends spent a recent morning broadcast implying that the newly discovered COVID-19 variant 鈥 Omicron - is a Democratic ...

La La Land to us, ‘That’s all, folks’

鈥淐an a wife鈥檚 love withstand the torments of lifelong sacrifice,鈥 blazed the movie advertisement for 鈥淐ourage.鈥 鈥淲ill loyalty to a husband, imprisoned for life, last when there are others who offer love?鈥滿eanwhile, the Main Theater in Uniontown offered 鈥淭he Invisible Power,鈥 ...

Do you remember where you were …? (copy)

I made a simple request last Monday.Since that day marked the 58th year since John F. Kennedy was assassinated, I took to Facebook and asked, 鈥淒o you remember where you were when you heard the news?鈥滻 didn鈥檛 preface that question with anything.Just those 11 words.There were more than 40 ...