I don’t have anything against Alabama.I’ve never gone there.Chances are, if I’m allowed to keep my free will, I never will.A hundred years after the Civil War ended, Alabama acted as if it hadn’t.It was ground zero in the fight to keep segregation thriving.By the mid-1960s, it had ...
A good if not a very prudent man forfeited his sterling reputation, hundreds of small investors lost their life savings, and the grand expectations of a whole generation were irretrievably lost.One-hundred years ago this winter the world of J.V. Thompson came crashing down, and Uniontown, to ...
Hardly anything, it seems, escapes partisan politics.LetÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ take measles.Back in 2000, AmericaÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ medical scientists had declared that measles had nearly been eradicated in this country.Unfortunately, though, two years earlier, a British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, had published a study that ...