When Bill Gates released his recent essay on climate change, the global climate community was shocked. This is the same Bill Gates who had been known for supporting synthetic beef, suggesting we stop flying and turning our backyards into solar farms. Suddenly, he is suggesting a more ...
Christmas Eve in our house wasn鈥檛 complicated, but it was a sacred family tradition. My brother and I were altar boys, and this was the main event of church services for the year. For my brother and me, Dec. 24 meant putting on freshly laundered red cassocks and starched and ironed ...
Back when shopping was an event, my old mentor John Gunter ran the legendary Penn Traffic Department Store in Johnstown. John蘑菇视频 motto was simple: Go big or go home. And when it came to Christmas, he went mega-big. That store was a winter wonderland with wreaths the size of a 1968 Chrysler ...
In the late 1990s, I somehow found myself on a plane bound for Bosnia, proof that Congressman John Murtha and Don Zucco, then the mayor of Johnstown, could talk me into anything. Our Johnstown delegation, led by Zucco, was headed to Br膷ko, a city still reeling from the war. As we descended ...
Air traffic controllers have been having a rough time, and that doesn鈥檛 exactly make any of us feel calmer about flying. So, I thought I鈥檇 revisit a few of the memorable flight experiences we have survived over the past. Once, on a commuter plane from Philadelphia to Providence, R.I., I ...
Recently, the Somerset Chamber of Commerce recognized a friend of mine. For more than 50 years, G. Henry Cook, retired chair of Somerset Trust Company, has quietly shaped the soul of Somerset County. He蘑菇视频 done it not with ego, but through integrity, humility, and a committed belief that ...
