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Eagerly waiting Fayette County’s comprehensive plan, why bother?

If you鈥檙e like me, you鈥檙e awaiting the unveiling of the 10-year comprehensive plan for Fayette County due in late February or early March of next year.I鈥檓 kidding, of course. The last comprehensive plan came out in June 2000, and only this week did I skim through it. (Actually reading the ...

If you catch my drift

Within minutes of the news that the nation鈥檚 41st president had died, the tributes rolled in - and freely.George Herbert Walker Bush had been a highly respected member of, perhaps, America鈥檚 most exclusive fraternity.Of the hundreds of millions of people who鈥檝e dwelled in the United ...

Baseball, Big Macs and gas explosions

I鈥檓 thinking of writing my childhood memoirs. So what if my childhood and adolescence were largely uneventful. What follows are possible chapter titles and synopses. With a few tweaks, maybe a movie treatment is next. I hope so. I need the money.<strong>THIS IS YOUR NEW HOME. ...

Promises made, promises broken

鈥淚f I鈥檓 elected, you won鈥檛 lose one plant. You鈥檒l have plants coming into this country. You鈥檙e gonna have jobs again. You won鈥檛 lose one plant. I promise you.鈥-<em>- Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, Oct. 31, 2016, Warren, Michigan</em>Last week, ...

Local soldiers graves grim reminder of WWI

Some 300 feet from Coolspring Street in North Union Township, directly across from the old high school, are the weedy graves of two World War I soldiers killed in the Great War one-hundred years ago.Beneath one headstone with two chiseled U.S. Army rifles lies the mortal remains of Private ...

(Don鈥檛) Lock Her Up!

It had been an instant crowd-pleaser during the 2016 presidential campaign.The mere mention of Hillary Clinton鈥檚 name at a Donald Trump rally was sure to elicit chants of 鈥渓ock her up!鈥漈rump鈥檚 claim that Clinton鈥檚 use of a personal email account, and a personal server, was the grounds ...