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It was reported on the front page of the Uniontown Evening Standard on Sept. 9, 1943 (70 years ago, today), that allied forces were in the midst of toppling the regime of ItalyĢƵ Benito Mussolini. The Italian government had announced its unconditional surrender. It was reported as American ...

California in state of confusion

I get a snicker every time I hear somebody talk about how “liberal” California is. ThatĢƵ the same state that gave us such notable “liberals” as Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and that current White House irritant, Darrell Issa.ItĢƵ the state that became the first in the country to ...

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In September 1928, 50,000 people were expected to “invade Uniontown” for the Junior Order of United American Mechanics parade. The Sept. 12, 1928, edition of the Uniontown Daily News Standard reported that there would be as many as 10,000 marchers who would take part in the event, which ...

I get letters …

For the better part of a decade, I’ve written (my estimate) 448 political and non-political columns that have filled this space. I’m sure nobody does a word count, but each of those columns contains exactly 700 words.I’m guessing I’ve used 316,600 words that could never confuse anybody ...

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While thereĢƵ probably a good bit of truth about that old saw, “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” I’d never given it much thought until I began looking back at old newspapers.Things have certainly “changed” since the early years of the 20th century, when there ...

Better things to do?

It looked like a great time the members of the 1972 Super Bowl champion Miami Dolphins were having with President Barack Obama last week. Too bad three members of that team decided they had better things to do that day.NFL Hall of Famer Jim Langer, the center on that undefeated team, told a ...