President-elect Trump wants to rename the body of water south of New Orleans and west of Tampa. You know, that one that's been called the Gulf of Mexico for the past 400 years. Donald Trump likes the "Gulf of America" for the salt waters washing ashore at Mobile and on the coastline of ...
Not only young people write to me through my column. To kick off the New Year, I selected a parent and a grandparent email to share. Q. I appreciate the way you support teachers in your column and your social media posts. I taught for 45 years, mostly middle school. My teacher colleagues ...
David McCormick became a U.S. senator on Friday, the first day of business for the 119th Congress. A Republican, McCormick squeezed out a victory over the Democrat, Robert P. Casey Jr., the longtime incumbent whose political career goes back decades. Casey's father, the "real" Bob Casey, was a ...
On a New Year's Eve in Uniontown many, many years ago, a wailing infant entered the world. Afterward, that baby, now grown to manhood, helped to save the world from certain tyranny. George C. Marshall occupied the highest echelons of government. As Army chief of staff, he led the U.S. military ...
"Here it is Christmas Day," my future father-in-law wrote his family in Uniontown in the middle of World War II. Corporal Bob Reynolds was stationed "Somewhere in India" with the 25th Field Hospital, U.S. Army. "In a couple of hours," Bob wrote, "it will all be over: My first Christmas ...
It's tradition that U.S. senators mark the end of their tenures with "farewell" speeches, traditionally delivered standing at their desks on the Senate floor. Released from the demands of politics, senators are more apt to be candid in this setting than they might otherwise be, or so one ...
