At the worst, most extreme of times, defining what is selfish and unselfish politics is at the heart of the democratic struggle.We seem to be at such a point now.What do you call it when governors want to keep their economies closed and businesses shuttered, with workers shunted to the ...
When this is over, Americans will have themselves to thank for the mitigation of the coronavirus.Yes, thank goodness for Doctors Fauci and Birx and, to a greater or lesser extent, Vice President Pence, and to all those conscientious governors, Democrats and Republicans. They have served us ...
During these sad pandemic days, Americans are reading and watching more news, though their long-standing opinion of newspapers and TV news has not changed. According to the latest Gallup poll, 36 percent are favorably disposed toward the media while 48 percent are not.What continues to drive ...
Andrew Cuomo might have become governor of New York on his own. He was already state attorney general after serving in Bill Clinton鈥檚 cabinet as secretary of Commerce. And his father, Mario Cuomo, had been a two-term governor and liberal torch carrier.But as it happened, Andrew got a big push ...
Though she was a homemaker, the late, great Rose Brady of Connellsville was no homebody. 鈥淪ocial distancing鈥� was not her thing.Not when the mother of seven joined the nurse volunteer program at what in those days was Connellsville State Hospital. Not when she became a leader in Red Cross ...
聽Everything has changed.Life as we knew it - even last week - doesn鈥檛 exist.The rapidly growing scourge of coronavirus has reshaped our lives more quickly than anything in our nation鈥檚 history.Life will go on. But at a cost paid by everybody, everywhere.We would have never thought that ...