The Middle East is on fire.It鈥檚 been on fire for a very long time.Our president, though, thought it might be of some value to perform an assassination.It backfired.First, a little background.Most Americans can鈥檛 even find Iran on a map.A recent Morning Consult and Politico poll indicates ...
It would be remiss of me, while on the topic of the Connellsville Coke Region, to fail to mention the centennial of the death of Henry Clay Frick.Frick, a native West Overton, was a little shy of 70 when he died at his palatial Fifth Avenue home in New York City.Having amassed one of the ...
In the land of coal and coke, the H.C. Frick Company reigned supreme, which is not to say the company had the entire Connellsville Coke Region, stretching from Latrobe to Fairchance, to itself.There was, for instance, the Oliver and Snyder Steel Company, which operated, early in the 20th ...
I suppose it takes a half generation or so for the collective memory to slip. I recently asked the person I was sitting with at a high school basketball game if she recalled the nickname formerly used by Connellsville sports teams.Today, it鈥檚 the Falcons. Before the Falcons, it was ... ...
Donald Trump sent a terse letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Last Tuesday.It was a six-page, 2,774-word diatribe that supposedly presented Trump鈥檚 defense against the impending impeachment proceedings that engulf his presidency.It was a doozy.There鈥檚 been some speculation that the letter ...
In recent months I鈥檝e had occasion to mention two books by the great Rick Atkinson, a former newspaperman and a Pulitzer winner for his reporting of the first Iraq war.More about The British Are Coming and The Guns at Last Light in a moment.But first, with Christmas just days away, I thought ...