In the contest for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate the temper of the times points to John Fetterman, which is not to say that his chief rival, Conor Lamb, can or should be dismissed.In November against a Republican opponent, Lamb, a suburban Pittsburgh congressman with a record of ...
I grew up in a world of ubiquitous corner stores – forever beckoning me to spend my pocket change on penny candy, and stuff.ThatĢƵ how it was. I’ve never regretted it.On the East End of Uniontown in the 1950s, there must’ve been a dozen family-owned stores.I think I visited all of them, ...
Campaign themes are frequently fragile things that shatter the moment they encounter reality.I’m thinking of the Eisenhower-Nixon “missile gap” falsely promoted by John Kennedy in 1960. Then there was the matter of a convicted murderer being handed a get out of jail card by Massachusetts ...