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Rising Tweets Cause Sinking Polls

ItĢƵ all in the numbers. For President Trump, the numbers are dreadful. ItĢƵ difficult finding any poll in which heĢƵ more popular than he is unpopular.The most recent CNN/SSRS poll is an example of just how unpopular he is – and on a variety of fronts.Only 36 percent of the people ...

Reclaiming a small piece of history

In the lobby of the Uniontown Public Library, just off the main entrance, in a glass display case, sits a trophy — it was awarded in 1959 to the local team that won a national baseball championship.How did it end up at the library? I will tell you in a moment, for itĢƵ a tale all its own. ...

All Aboard the “Trump-train” to “Crazytown”

Bob Woodward doesn’t seem to have an axe to grind. He just writes books.The legendary Watergate journalist has authored or co-authored 18 books, and a dozen of them have become No. 1 national bestsellers.Last week, juicy tidbits from his latest book, "Fear: Trump in the White House," were ...

A friend remembered

He was the star basketball player, but he was humble about it. He dated the head cheerleader, though at the time he preferred the company of friends.I’m talking about Gene Painley of Uniontown, who died recently. Gene was a friend and a touchstone of my youth. Later, seeing him as an adult, ...

Trump – The Great Uninvited

Ken Burns’ 10-part documentary series "The Vietnam War" aired last September on PBS.It was of great interest to me, having spent a year at Danang Air Base between 1969 and ‘70.In Episode 5, the viewing audience was taken to the prison facility known as The Hanoi Hilton, where we saw an ...

Labor Day reflections

Labor Day. Once upon a time, during presidential election years, this was the day on which the political knives came out.It was the day on which the candidate from the Missouri heartland, or the farm in Illinois, or the comfortable mansion on Cape Cod, or the Texas ranch, would fly to Michigan ...