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Bailey Park: Collaborate to recreate

At the risk of repeating myself: Uniontown and South Union Township should be working together to create a recreation complex that, excuse the cliche, could very well be second to none.The idea was prompted anew by a recent visit to Bailey Park and two articles in the township鈥檚 newsletter ...

Some justice! Some peace!

Derek Chauvin is guilty.As guilty as sin.Many of us suspected that before he went on trial.But, of course, he was entitled to a fair trial.Nothing short of a Perry Mason ending would have changed the outcome.Perry Mason never showed up!Instead, Chauvin鈥檚 defense counsel had the unenviable ...

The UMWA-Manchin grand bargain

A United Mine Workers of America convention could fill Heinz Field with all of the folks working in the coal industry in 2021 and still have plenty of seats left over.The capacity of the Steelers鈥 stadium is 68,400. There are some 44,000 men and women drawing coal-related paychecks. According ...

Thank goodness for the historians

Thank goodness for Margaret Leech.For as Sean Wilentz, one of the country鈥檚 great academic historians, has written, 鈥淲hen describing history, more is at stake than the past.鈥漃ast, present, and future is more like it. How aware would we moderns be, and how significant would we view it, had ...

The beating heart of the Civil War

It was a Sunday in April, a church service in Brownsville. The pastor, Presbyterian minister R.M. Wallace, told his congregants, 鈥淚t is the duty of all citizens to aid the constitutional authorities in maintaining the supremacy of the Constitution and the laws.鈥淭he national government,鈥 ...

The return of Jim Crow?

We live in a world where new ideas should be applauded.The good ones.In Georgia, though, there鈥檚 a new idea that鈥檚 become a nationwide head-scratcher. Deservedly so.You can鈥檛 hand any refreshments to a person standing in line at a polling place.That鈥檚 illegal now in Georgia.Who was the ...