More children were murdered in their school last week.Covenant School, Nashville, Tennessee 鈥 6 dead, 1 injured.That was followed by the usual flood of tearful 鈥渢houghts and prayers;鈥 feverish speculation about who the culprit might be; more tragic pictures of schoolchildren getting ...
Ed Yankovich has trouble remembering the last big Mitchell Day celebration. Was it five years ago, 10 years ago? Yankovich, former president of the United Mine Workers district headquartered in Uniontown, was unable to pin it down.鈥淚t was somewhere in that period of time,鈥 he said the other ...
A lot of attention is being paid to what our children are reading nowadays, turning once sedate classrooms and libraries into battlefields in our country鈥檚 never-ending culture wars.Some overzealous parents and community members have gone on book-banning benders, even though restricting the ...