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And now, hands across Route 40

The pronouncement the other day by South Union Township supervisor Robert Schiffbauer that the township was hopeful of cooperating with North Union on projects beneficial to both was heartening.“We are in a similar situation and we want to see their growth continue,” Schiffbauer told the ...

Democrats to Trump: Here, you win

The other day at a Harrisburg press briefing, Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey highlighted one more way Democrats are angling to lose to Donald Trump in 2020.“The top Democratic presidential candidates,” the senator said, “are competing with each other over who can do more harm to this ...

Remember the soldier on Vets Day

Army Captain Jack Golden wrote his father from Europe during World War II: “I feel like I’m 80.” He was 22-years-old in 1944. “You get so tired you stop doing the small things that are important to your safety and if you get tired enough you don’t care whether you live or die.... We ...

Wanted: campaign crackle-and-pop

A little after 10 on a recent Saturday morning, Vince Vicites stepped from a vehicle in front of the local UMW headquarters near the Walmart in South Union TownshipVicites, the long serving Fayette County commissioner, was here in his role as candidate Vince Vicites. HeĢƵ up for reelection on ...

Afraid for the future of the country

Donald Trump is going to be impeached.This now appears inevitable. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was correct when she said several months ago the president, apparently unconstrained by convention, law, or common sense, was on a path to impeach himself.TrumpĢƵ attempt to stick up Ukrainian ...

And now, news from the 1750s

TodayĢƵ news sweeps gusher-like down the gutters of our lives. Each dayĢƵ news seems more astonishing than the day before. We sink or swim with the news. There is no getting away from it.News from the 18th century is another matter. Of course, it was long ago, and the leading actors are 200 ...