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Maybe in 2023: ‘Back-to-the-future’

As regular season play nears its end, itĢƵ time to look forward. As they used to say in Brooklyn, “We can’t wait till next year.” (Actually, they said, about their beloved Dodgers, “Wait till next year,” in recognition of the fact that “dem Bums” had once failed to achieve what ...

Coal labor conflict was once common

On this Labor Day 2022, let us remember ...By the time Ethelbert Stewart arrived on Capitol Hill to talk to lawmakers, he was a practiced hand in the struggles between management and labor.In 1922, Stewart was in his 33rd year as chief statistician for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.“I ...

Agree to nothing

Thanks to a brand-new law – the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 – technology companies all over the United States may get a boost in the production of computer chips that’ll advance this country's technology for decades.Who could ever be against that?Republicans!When Democrats were busily ...

These questions need answered, now

Campaign season is upon us. Always earnest, sometimes farcical, but now grim as all get-out, politics takes center stage, along with football, football, and, yes, more football.In particular, and despite the best efforts of county Commissioners Scott Dunn and David Lohr (acting as members of ...

Our wonderful school days

ItĢƵ that time of the year.Schools all over the country are reopening.ItĢƵ been 60 years since I first walked through the doors at Park Elementary School, up there on Connellsville Street, to begin my educational journey.I still miss those days.To me, aside from Christmases and my ...

For president: Cheney of Wyoming

Having lost her seat in the House from Wyoming, Liz Cheney appears poised to run for president. A Republican, her goal will be to keep Donald Trump as far away from the White House as possible.“Of course she doesn’t win [the nomination],” Bill Kristol, the neo-conservative, Never-Trumper, ...