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Donald TrumpĢƵ biggest lie so far

Last Monday, America stopped for 4 minutes to allow for a momentous occasion. No. Not that little solar eclipse thing. I’m talking about Donald TrumpĢƵ 4 ½-minute video, in which he supposedly spelled out his “true” stand on the issue of abortion. The whole thing reminded me of ...

A springtime of tragic foreboding

There are some travelers I'd like you to meet. They are from an antique land: America in the spring of 1861. It was April, normal in many ways for the residents of Uniontown. Merchants, such as Calvin Springer, proprietor of the McClellan House hotel on Main Street, and C.S. Seaton and George ...

An airport by any other name is still an airport

U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler has introduced H.R. 7845, a bill “To designate the Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia as the ‘Donald J. Trump International Airport.’” I don’t seek to find humor in many things. That, though, made me laugh. Reschenthaler and six of ...

The war within the Kennedy family

The "real" Bobby Kennedy was 26-years old the day he took over management of his brother Jack's campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1952. "Tanned and wiry with a mop of unruly hair," according to JFK biographer Frederik Logevall, the new campaign manager was not especially interested in ...

Teenage secrets revealed, recovered

"They are everywhere - almost 18 million young Americans crowding into classrooms, spilling into the streets, filing cars and stores and beaches. They have been probed and prodded and psychoanalyzed. And yet, as behavioral scientists point out, “... the years between childhood and adulthood ...

The Thrill of Sports…

How do you bring entire communities together? Two things. It starts with a fast break. It ends with an easy layup. In recent winters, you could watch UniontownĢƵ wildly cheering fans erupt simultaneously at high school gymnasiums all over western Pennsylvania. ThatĢƵ what sports can ...