You could write a book about Donald Trump鈥檚 antic-filled presidency, and Mark Esper has.Esper, a native of Uniontown who served as Trump鈥檚 secretary of defense for 18 torturous months, writes in his book, 鈥淎 Sacred Oath,鈥� that only his training at West Point (which followed his ...
In the contest for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate the temper of the times points to John Fetterman, which is not to say that his chief rival, Conor Lamb, can or should be dismissed.In November against a Republican opponent, Lamb, a suburban Pittsburgh congressman with a record of ...
Campaign themes are frequently fragile things that shatter the moment they encounter reality.I鈥檓 thinking of the Eisenhower-Nixon 鈥渕issile gap鈥� falsely promoted by John Kennedy in 1960. Then there was the matter of a convicted murderer being handed a get out of jail card by Massachusetts ...
Widely speculated on in the press and elsewhere is that Russian president Vladimir Putin governs largely in the dark. Ruling the Kremlin with an iron fist, Putin, so the thinking goes, hears only what he wants to hear about Ukraine and much else.Bad news is filtered out. Only good news finds ...
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 ...
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 ...