I鈥檓 already thinking about 2024.That鈥檚 because it鈥檚 gonna be loaded with the kinds of bare-knuckled, political drama well worth writing about.Donald Trump may or may not be on the ballot for president.Joe Biden? Who knows?In the meantime, the road leading up to the 2024 presidential ...
Is this a slippery slope, or has the Fayette County Elections Board already tumbled into voter suppression and democracy denialism?Whatever the case may be, it鈥檚 frightening 鈥� frightening in and of itself and frightening for what it could mean for the elections for governor and U.S. Senate ...
From time to time, I just stop; then take note of our wonderfully confounding English language.Today is one of those times.I鈥檝e often questioned why we use phrases like "jump in the shower" when nobody jumps into showers.Likewise, I鈥檝e never known anybody who truly "hops out of bed."I鈥檝e ...
The jig is up. I don鈥檛 know everything. To prove it, three stories from last week left me scratching my head. (At least three. There may have been more. In the age of social media and everyone鈥檚-a-reporter, it鈥檚 impossible to read everything.)The first involved of all people Josh Hawley, ...
If I seem like a broken record 鈥� then so be it.Somebody has got to figure out a way to get these military-style rifles off the streets of America.It鈥檚 only been a little over a month (right after the mass murders in Uvalde, Texas) since I wrote about the glut of these weapons that have ...
July marks another anniversary for the coal strikes that roiled Western Pennsylvania and, most especially, Fayette County in the early months of Franklin Roosevelt鈥檚 fabled New Deal.The 1933 strikes by miners working for outfits like the rabidly anti-union H.C. Frick Coal and Coke Company ...
