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To drink or not to drink?

I can never outdo the prose of Shakespeare, but to steal a line, here goes: “To drink or not to drink, that is the question.” I’m not referring to milk, orange juice, flavored water, or chicken broth, but instead the proverbial consumption of alcohol in its various forms.LetĢƵ peek at ...

With gate off, is the game still on?

On Sept. 23, 1956, 44,932 “bug-eyed” fans (as Bob Prince would say) squeezed into Forbes Field, which had seating for only 34,249 of them.How the Pirates managed to accompany a crowd that was better than 10,000 overcapacity can hardly be imagined. Where did those without seats stand? How ...

Address ‘turnpike leakage’

Probably no one with any real understanding or logical suppositions surrounding the Pennsylvania TurnpikeĢƵ switch to all-electronic tolling subscribed to the shortsighted notion that the travel entity would not experience serious challenges in ensuring that a superior toll-collection record ...

Something’s brewing, and it ain’t good

It seems more and more people are acting and talking crazy. ItĢƵ pretty dangerous stuff.Example: Before a vote last week by the Uniontown Area School Board to require student mask-wearing, to help stop the spread of a variant of the COVID-19 virus, a parent told the board, “This whole ...

Rail service within reach amid spending push

State officials are talking up the prospect of new passenger train lines and expanded service across the state, citing billions of dollars in expected economic benefits.But their vision could remain just that, unless they can scrape together enough state and federal funds to cover the new ...

Twentieth anniversary of 9/11 an occasion for solemn remembrance

For anyone who was alive and sentient on that day, itĢƵ hard to fathom that 20 years have gone by since Sept. 11, 2001.ThatĢƵ long enough for fashions and technologies to have passed through multiple evolutions, for five presidential elections to have happened, for children to have been ...