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Baseball: national pastime or a sport gone bad?

As for saving the national pastime from tedium, here鈥檚 the bottom line: It鈥檚 going to be tough.Tough because there are considerable differences between baseball today and when it rode atop American sports. As for some of those differences, we might consider the performance of Yankee great ...

If it ain鈥檛 broke, fix it anyway

Republicans think they have a sure-fire formula for staying relevant and in office.Run campaign ads, in which they promise to block the teaching of Critical Race Theory and sex education in kindergartens while cleaning up the scourge of widespread voter fraud; then stick the word 鈥渨oke鈥 in ...

Local officials should act 鈥 now

Debby Miller can鈥檛 shake one horrible memory.Miller, 68, told me the other day that when she was pregnant and living near the city school building on Connellsville Street in Uniontown, a youngster was struck by a car.The little boy died.鈥淚t was so tragic,鈥 Miller said. 鈥淚 cried for ...

I got memories

Today, I鈥檓 26,833 days old.That鈥檚 not a milestone.It鈥檚 just another way of saying I鈥檓 currently in my 73rd year.It鈥檚 also my way of saying I got lots of memories.I鈥檇 better put some of them on paper before I forget I experienced them.Here鈥檚 one.Back in 1979, while working as a ...

What’s the thing we are not seein

In late May 1930, O鈥橬eil Kennedy made his way from his office at the corner of Pittsburgh and Peter streets to a platform several blocks away, on Church Street, for a ceremony marking the start of construction on a new Bell Telephone building in Uniontown.(The building is still there, across ...

Of french fries, boycotts and cat bans!

Take that!We sure showed the French that we Americans were nothing to mess with back in 2003.When President George Bush was revving up the U.S. war machine and aiming it directly at Saddam Hussein鈥檚 Iraq back then, France demurred.French Minister of Foreign Affairs Dominique de Villepin ...