The lights were on against the darkened sky and the moon was as round and full as a hanging curve ball. And, oh yes, the outfield grass was green and the infield a delightful-looking light brown. Better yet, there were nine players on the field not counting the batter, the kid waiting to bat, ...
The Civil War and Reconstruction are hot topics, again. Proof?For one, the loud and at times violent skirmishing over Confederate statuary. For another, the renewal of the reparations debate. Finally, a spate of new books, including “Stony the Road” by Henry Louis Gates Jr., dealing with ...
Democrats just set a record.There are, as I write this, 18 of them officially running for the presidency.That exceeds the number of Republicans (17) who threw their hats into the ring for president before the 2016 presidential election.Joe Biden appears to be standing in the wings.He’s ...
I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for baseball. More than ready.Hope springs eternal at the old ballyard. I’m reminded of the line in the movie Field of Dreams by the reclusive novelist Terrance Mann, about baseball being the one constant in America.“America has rolled by like an ...
I really hadn’t paid much attention to that special election to fill the empty seat in the state’s 37th Senatorial District.I don’t live in that district.In fact, I didn’t even know which political parties the two candidates (D. Raja and Pam Iovino) belonged to until a few days before ...
Last Sunday, the state’s 14th District congressman, Guy Reschenthaler, emailed a request for money to fight the “liberal ... socialist” agenda of the Democrats.Now, when the Republican Reschenthaler was running for the job against the Democrat Bibi Boerio last fall, he was mostly ...