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They’re lining up to run for the presidency

I’m already thinking about 2024.ThatĢƵ because itĢƵ gonna be loaded with the kinds of bare-knuckled, political drama well worth writing about.Donald Trump may or may not be on the ballot for president.Joe Biden? Who knows?In the meantime, the road leading up to the 2024 presidential ...

The slippery slope to November 2024

Is this a slippery slope, or has the Fayette County Elections Board already tumbled into voter suppression and democracy denialism?Whatever the case may be, itĢƵ frightening – frightening in and of itself and frightening for what it could mean for the elections for governor and U.S. Senate ...

Just another column about Language

From time to time, I just stop; then take note of our wonderfully confounding English language.Today is one of those times.I’ve often questioned why we use phrases like "jump in the shower" when nobody jumps into showers.Likewise, I’ve never known anybody who truly "hops out of bed."I’ve ...

A week of questions, a week of wonder

The jig is up. I don’t know everything. To prove it, three stories from last week left me scratching my head. (At least three. There may have been more. In the age of social media and everyoneĢƵ-a-reporter, itĢƵ impossible to read everything.)The first involved of all people Josh Hawley, ...

More mass murders; some answers, but not enough

If I seem like a broken record – then so be it.Somebody has got to figure out a way to get these military-style rifles off the streets of America.ItĢƵ only been a little over a month (right after the mass murders in Uvalde, Texas) since I wrote about the glut of these weapons that have ...

Marking Roe in a Depression-era fight

July marks another anniversary for the coal strikes that roiled Western Pennsylvania and, most especially, Fayette County in the early months of Franklin RooseveltĢƵ fabled New Deal.The 1933 strikes by miners working for outfits like the rabidly anti-union H.C. Frick Coal and Coke Company ...