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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
If somehow we regain our equilibrium, whenever that may be, people will be asking, and historians will be exploring the question, "What was up with those folks?" What indeed! An Iowan named Patricia, eager to cast a vote for Donald Trump in that state's recent presidential caucus, told a New ...
The upcoming election for president has already been called "the most important" election of this century, and perhaps, the most important of all time. There are rivals, of course. The election of 1860 brought Lincoln to power and tripped off the Civil War while the election of 1864 helped to ...
The states really are the "laboratories of democracy." Despite frustrations expressed from time to time with good old American federalism 鈥� the idea that the 50 individual states have a sovereign stake in this vast continental country of ours 鈥� there's always a light at the end of the ...