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I get letters …

For the better part of a decade, I’ve written (my estimate) 448 political and non-political columns that have filled this space. I’m sure nobody does a word count, but each of those columns contains exactly 700 words.I’m guessing I’ve used 316,600 words that could never confuse anybody ...

Did you know?

While thereĢƵ probably a good bit of truth about that old saw, “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” I’d never given it much thought until I began looking back at old newspapers.Things have certainly “changed” since the early years of the 20th century, when there ...

Better things to do?

It looked like a great time the members of the 1972 Super Bowl champion Miami Dolphins were having with President Barack Obama last week. Too bad three members of that team decided they had better things to do that day.NFL Hall of Famer Jim Langer, the center on that undefeated team, told a ...

Solving problems that don’t exist

North Carolina will soon be nearly free of voter fraud.In fact, itĢƵ always been nearly free of voter fraud.Almost seven million North Carolinians cast votes during the 2012 general election.Of those seven million votes, only 0.00174 percent of them were suspected of being cast ...

Did you know?

I found a strange local story that appeared in the July 23, 1953, edition of the Uniontown Evening Standard.“Girl mauled in local store,'' was the headline for a story about Terry Denim, who found herself having a harrowing experience at the Kaybee Store on West Main Street in Uniontown.Denim ...

Another GOP exercise in futility

The Republicans did it again. They’ve “repealed” Obamacare. ThereĢƵ a reason why I put these (" ") around the word repeal. Because Obamacare isn’t going anywhere.On Aug. 2, every Republican in the U.S. House wasted their time, and our tax dollars, by voting to repeal the Affordable ...