My father鈥檚 father died when he was 8, just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Born in 1901, the grandfather I never knew died in 1941. It was the darkest of times for the family and country.Dr. Reuben Stiehm left a wife and four children, including baby Elizabeth. He was on the faculty of ...
The labor shortage and all those 鈥渉elp wanted鈥� signs are the tip of the iceberg for Pennsylvania鈥檚 workforce. The state has a significant talent gap 鈥� the difference between the number of college-educated workers that businesses need versus the number in our labor force. It鈥檚 a ...
<em>Editor鈥檚 note: Syndicated columnist Diane Dimond is on sabbatical. This is a reprint from 2019.</em>Want to reduce the number of mass shootings in the United States? Then let鈥檚 ramp up efforts to stop domestic abuse.Just as a red flag is raised when a child ...
With the exception of Jan. 6, 2021, itself, maybe the most traumatic day of the Trump presidency was June 1, 2020 鈥� the day peaceful American citizens protesting the police murder of George Floyd were forcibly removed from Lafayette Square, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White ...
You might say I鈥檝e been a cockeyed optimist all these years. Or foolish and naive. I鈥檝e never been with the people who proclaim that the country and the world are going to hell, that we鈥檙e doomed, that life will be miserable in the year ... well, anytime in the future.鈥淚鈥檓 glad I鈥檓 ...
?I read an expression the other day: 鈥淟ife is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end of the roll, the faster it goes.鈥� If I were writing this two years ago, it would be with a lot deeper fear, but there are always life鈥檚 question marks.?My wife tested positive for ...
