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Trump primary vote not adding up

Despite losing the White House in 2020, Donald Trump is running for president again as an incumbent. Just ask him. Or better yet, ask the eight starry-eyed Republicans who lined up to debate him beginning last summer, only to have Trump refuse to engage them and their Potomac River ...

A long time coming: a coal surge

During his campaign for president in 2016, Donald Trump promised to revive U.S. coal mining. "You watch what happens," he said. "If I win, we're going to bring these miners back." Of course it didn't happen. When he left office in January 2021, U.S. coal mining employment was down 24%, while ...

Aging Joe may need a campaign jolt

Too bad for Joe Biden: well-meaning but old, doddering, and forgetful, unable to recall even the year his son Beau died. That's how the president was recently portrayed by special Department of Justice counsel Robert K. Hur. A Trump-appointed federal prosecutor assigned by Attorney General ...

Democracy and the problems of news

My ideal of a reporter was David Broder. Starting at the Washington Star, Broder eventually landed with the Washington Post (after the Star folded). A reporter of legendary renown, he showed up one evening in New Castle, where yours truly was a novice with the news. Broder brought with him a ...

Excuse this beating of a dead horse

You've heard - or read - this before: South Union Township and the city of Uniontown should get together to develop, eh, redevelop, Bailey Park. That is, greater Bailey Park. What is "greater Bailey Park?" That would be Bailey Park plus the fabulous new indoor soccer facility which South Union ...

Rabid versus patriotic partisanship

Talking with a friend recently about the 1940 presidential campaign - the same campaign I wrote about two weeks ago in this space - the campaign that pitted the incumbent president, Democrat Franklin Roosevelt, against the Republican challenger, Wendell Willkie - it occurred to me that I had ...