鈥淗appy Fourth of July,鈥� we tell one another. We may not always mean it.This year鈥檚 celebration of national independence is not shaping up as an especially joyous one. Things are so unsettled.Let me count some of the ways.First. We Americans seem to be at one another鈥檚 throats, still, ...
I love the English language.I even use some of it from time to time.This is one of those times.What does this mean? 鈥淵ou鈥檙e beating a dead horse.鈥滻鈥檝e spent years researching old newspapers, but I鈥檝e never found a single case of somebody who鈥檚 beaten a dead horse.That phrase ...
If you鈥檙e in the neighborhood this week, you might want to stop at the mountainous Route 40 Summit hotel 鈥� officially the Historic Summit Inn Resort. It鈥檚 an anniversary, of sorts. Ninety-nine years ago on July 2, the president of the United States stayed the night, along with his wife ...
Last year, life everywhere stopped.It鈥檚 restarting now 鈥� and with a vengeance.This month, Major League baseball parks are starting to fill with delirious fans who鈥檝e been starved for peanuts, and popcorn, and the cracks of the bats.A recent home series for the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley ...
A. James Manchin, whose nephew, the senior lawmaker from West Virginia, is all over the news as the key Senate vote on a variety of topics (from infrastructure to voting rights), never shied away from the spotlight and, as a lifetime Democrat, worked for a Republican governor in the Mountain ...
I just thought it was a chance meeting at the time.I鈥檇 never expected to come face-to-face with a U.S. senator while waiting to get my car fixed.That happened nearly a decade ago just outside of Pittsburgh.I was in the waiting room of a local Meineke Auto Car Care Center, holding my breath ...
