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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
