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Another day, another gate

The Watergate (Hotel) break-in, that sparked a national political scandal, and ultimately the resignation of a U.S. president, took place 15,192 days ago.Not long after that fateful day, just about every scandal, large or small, has had that four letter “gate” word appended to it.The most ...

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Ever since there have been daring filmmakers willing to cast light upon shadow, there have been Fayette County entrepreneurs eager to distribute their wares -- and local audiences with an unfailing appetite to digest them.Back in July of 1976, when the Uniontown Morning Herald and Evening ...

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On Jan. 28, 1913, the Uniontown Morning Herald carried this startling headline: “Row at wedding causes another fatal shooting.''There had been a “foreign wedding” in Revere. Two men engaged in a quarrel.A 25 year-old pulled a revolver on a 21 year-old, and fired two bullets into his ...

Let them eat “Talking Points”

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has the uncanny ability to find hole-filled arguments and recite them aloud. According to him, people who’re out of work become the victims of their unemployment checks after 26 weeks. ItĢƵ a foolish argument.The reason those people get unemployment benefits in the ...

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A hundred years ago this week, there was a startling report on the front page of the Uniontown Morning Herald about the previous year in Fayette County.“Violent deaths during the year 1913 total 301,'' read the headline for the annual Fayette County CoronerĢƵ report that was published on ...

Congress: The real idle masses

<em>"I don't know what they have to say, It makes no difference anyway.</em><em>Whatever it is, I'm against it.''</em><strong>Groucho Marx, from the song, "I’m Against It"</strong> The 2013 U.S. Congress (the ...