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A Trump Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree

There he was.The President of the United States of America, flying home from Europe on Air Force One.It was Saturday, and Mr. Trump was, no doubt, preparing to regale us with some hyperbolic, self-congratulatory bibble babble about how he’d wowed the G20.He hadn’t, by the way.He’d merely ...

Youth baseball a boon to other locales

While, in Uniontown, Bailey Park bakes indifferently in the summer heat, other ballparks, in other towns, serve as veritable cash registers for their communities.Youth baseball, as crass and as improbable as it sounds, can help fill coffers, and then some.I mentioned Bridgeport, W.Va., in a ...

Thaddeus Fowler more than mapping genius

From time to time — in curio shops, at booths in the center of malls, at estate sales and summer flea markets — you might run across an authentic slice of Americana — a birdĢƵ-eye map of a city or town, including many western Pennsylvania towns.Look for them; they’re worth your ...

Trump’s lies frustrates media

It was bound to happen.Team Trump and the nationĢƵ media establishment have been on a collision course for quite some time.The opening salvo in what appears to be all out warfare, was landed last Tuesday afternoon.During the daily presidential news briefing, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White ...

Bailey Park wasting away

Normally, I am not a cynical person: I’m a naively optimistic type, I’m afraid. People talk, I listen, and believe.But let me be clear: all the talk about rehabilitating Bailey Park has been just that: talk. Junk talk, at that, apparently.At the recent Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame ...

The fact-free presidency of Trump

They’ll say, ‘Donald Trump lies to the people of Iowa.’”President Trump, addressing a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa last WednesdayLast Wednesday night at his sixth post-campaign campaign rally in Iowa, President Trump predicted that the media would call him out on his untruths.That ...