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Democracy rule one: trust and abide

In the lead-up to the local elections of 1935, a group of Fayette County Democrats held a political rally alongside a highway near Brownsville.The tone of the rally was set by Charles Lewellyn, a candidate for judge, who told the gathering that he had been in German Township recently when an ...

Bob Huggins’ golden opportunity

Last season, before tip-offs at West Virginia University home basketball games, the public address announcer would call the crowd’s attention to the school’s promise to treat every person with respect.The pronouncement usually came amidst a welter of noise and other distractions, but ...

Bobby Jr. and the politics of crazy

Until recently, the last time a member of the vaunted Kennedy family was in presidential campaign mode was on the evening of Aug. 12, 1980, in New York City. The occasion was that year’s Democratic convention.It was Jimmy Carter’s convention (sort of) but Ted Kennedy’s night. The senator ...

The city’s re-launch of Bailey Park

Municipal government is frequently a tale of failed attempts, of civic woe compounded by familiarity: The garbage doesn’t get picked up, the pothole doesn’t get filled in, the yard across the street remains an eyesore.For years, Uniontown’s Bailey Park was pretty much neglected. Once in a ...

The many ways this day is ‘special’

If this is Sunday, April 23, 2023, then it must be National Table Top Tennis Day ... and National Lost Dog Awareness Day ... and National Picnic Day ... and National Lovers’ Day ... and National German Beer Day ... and National Cherry Cheesecake Day ... and World Book Night ... and St. ...

The problem of men in black robes

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to the prescription drug mifepristone in 2000. Last week, 23 years and five presidential administrators later, a federal judge in Texas placed a preliminary hold on the use of mifepristone, one drug in a two-drug combination used to ...