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Dumbauld letters unique look into early local politics

It鈥檚 not right to read someone else鈥檚 mail. But I suppose it鈥檚 OK if the mail has turned 90 and everyone is dead. So let鈥檚 peek inside some letters addressed to and preserved by a young man from Uniontown; by name, Edward Dumbauld.From his mother Lissa, no doubt written at the Dumbauld ...

The Robots Heard 鈥楻ound the World

And now, a little bit about myself.Back in 1982, I became the entertainment editor for the NBC affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona 鈥 KPNX-TV.That meant I鈥檇 review movies and local restaurants, cover concerts, interview movie and TV stars, and have as much fun as allowable by law.That is, until ...

Trump is no Truman

When Harry Truman became president, he had no foreign policy experience. As a two-term Missouri senator, Truman was the compromise choice as Franklin Roosevelt鈥檚 running mate in the 1944 election.With FDR鈥檚 death on April 12, 1945, Truman stepped from the wings to center stage. In the ...

Republicans have a worthy adversary – Kids

Conservatives are in an uproar these days.Not about the collective misadventures of our president, but about children whose honest anxieties about their futures has led them to take their concerns to the streets.Just 39 days after a crazed gunman strode into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School ...

U.S. trade: Something went off the tracks

鈥淪omething must be done and done fast to save the specialty steel industry in this country ... Specialty steel is a very vulnerable target鈥 for foreign steelmakers hoping to crash the U.S. market. In the absence of U.S. government controls on foreign specialty steel imports, it is 鈥 ...

Trump seems to always kiss up to Putin

The President of the United States can say anything he darned well pleases.Growing numbers of Americans, though, wish he wouldn鈥檛.He鈥檇 been handed a National Security brief ahead of his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. Instead of using a little restraint -- he ...