On a recent trip to Frank Lloyd Wright鈥檚 Fallingwater, I glanced at license plates in the parking lot outside the architectural masterpiece. I saw New York, Illinois, Maryland, Delaware and Florida plates in the span of a few cars.That鈥檚 a wonderful sign, not just for the Western ...
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鈥檚 Democratic convention.It was Jimmy Carter鈥檚 convention (sort of) but Ted Kennedy鈥檚 night. The senator ...
WASHINGTON 鈥� In December 1944, a Category 2 typhoon slammed Adm. William F. 鈥淏ull鈥� Halsey鈥檚 Third Fleet, which included the USS Monterey, a small, improvised aircraft carrier so unstable that tons of cement had been poured into its port side to make it less so. Tossed like a cork in the ...
Back in 1966, the Beatles asked in 鈥淓leanor Rigby鈥� where all the lonely people came from and where they all belong.Fifty-seven years later, the question remains just as pertinent and, in the estimation of U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, even more urgent.According to a report released ...
<strong>Jeers:</strong> In 2020, Washington County Prothonotary Laura Hough was allowed to use the LexisNexis database so she could send civil court documents, but Hough is accused of using the database for searches 鈥渂eyond the scope of its official purpose,鈥� as ...
As a young kid, when challenges arose, I often found myself looking at them in MacGyver-like ways.What was the problem? What were the available resources? Was there a shortcut? Was there a better way to get it done? Now that I鈥檓 older, it鈥檚 clear to me that my brain was doing system ...
