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Echoes of the miners’ Mitchell Day

Ed Yankovich has trouble remembering the last big Mitchell Day celebration. Was it five years ago, 10 years ago? Yankovich, former president of the United Mine Workers district headquartered in Uniontown, was unable to pin it down.“It was somewhere in that period of time,” he said the other ...

I get email

Back when I worked in television in the early 1980s, I reviewed hundreds of movies each year.I had one fellow walk up to me and say, “I disagree with your review of ...” whatever the movie was.I asked him if he liked that movie. He told me he hadn’t even seen it. He just wanted to let me ...

The shock of a return from Florida

I’m home. The furnace is running. OMG. After a week in balmy Florida, where I dipped into the hotel swimming pool, watched ballgames, and paraded around in shorts and T-shirts, the cold is hardly bearable.Flying from the Gulf Coast to the hill-top airport on the outskirts of Bridgeport, ...

Please stop this ‘woke’ nonsense

I suppose “woke” is now a dirty word.For the better part of a century, the word, “woke,” hadn’t harmed anybody.It had long been a bit of African American vernacular which meant alert, or aware of racial and social injustices.ThatĢƵ all.Somehow, folks on the political right, have ...

When history leaps from the page

Some years ago I was sitting at a research table at the state archives in Harrisburg. I had filled out a research slip for something or other when I was handed (by mistake) a letter-size envelope containing a piece of canvas – a sample for those in state government in 1861 who bought tents ...

So long, Dilbert

Scott Adams made his fortune with his wit and artisanship.HeĢƵ losing that fortune with his mouth.He’d built that fortune on the shoulders of his highly popular comic strip – Dilbert.Adams has slowly been chipping away at the goodwill Dilbert helped him build with the public (2,000 ...