It鈥檚 the New Year. I鈥檓 pretty sure you already knew that. Well, I think of all the years leading up to 2024 as 鈥淥ld Years.鈥� I鈥檝e had my share of 鈥淥ld Years.鈥� Why, you ask? Because I鈥檓 old. And stop asking me questions! There are times when I like to look at some of the ...
The upcoming election for president has already been called "the most important" election of this century, and perhaps, the most important of all time. There are rivals, of course. The election of 1860 brought Lincoln to power and tripped off the Civil War while the election of 1864 helped to ...
My New Year鈥檚 resolutions would have already been broken if I鈥檇 decided to make any. Eight days into 2024 and poof! But I didn鈥檛 make any New Year鈥檚 resolutions, because by Dec. 31, 2023, I鈥檇 resolved not to make any more of them. So I didn鈥檛! MEMO TO SELF: Try to find out ...
The states really are the "laboratories of democracy." Despite frustrations expressed from time to time with good old American federalism 鈥� the idea that the 50 individual states have a sovereign stake in this vast continental country of ours 鈥� there's always a light at the end of the ...
Q. I think I鈥檓 the only kid in the world who is in a hurry to get back to school. I鈥檓 so bored during this break. It鈥檚 too long. I just live with my mom and she works two jobs. I don鈥檛 connect with my school friends when I鈥檓 not in school because I don鈥檛 have a phone. Is it weird ...
The greatest living architect poured scorn on the idea. Frank Lloyd Wright, famous in these parts (and elsewhere for that matter) for Fallingwater, his iconoclastic residential design set off in the woods of Fayette County, criticized the notion of saving the Pittsburgh "Triangle," as he put ...
