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In Senate race, Dems need a winner

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 ...

The pocket change of my youth

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, ...

The lies Republicans tell one another

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 ...

The kingmaker speaks

ItĢƵ as if Donald Trump never left the presidency.He still holds those exuberant campaign rallies with a not-too-carefully concealed eye on an attempted return to the White House.And he still holds court by becoming quite the kingmaker.Something for which he seems to be well-suited.Many ...

Here dissent is good, there, nyet

Widely speculated on in the press and elsewhere is that Russian president Vladimir Putin governs largely in the dark. Ruling the Kremlin with an iron fist, Putin, so the thinking goes, hears only what he wants to hear about Ukraine and much else.Bad news is filtered out. Only good news finds ...

Spring and renewal!

Mondays after Easter Sundays were always special to me when I was a kid.That meant if there were any playgrounds or empty fields within scurrying distance, they’d soon be populated by after-school kids indefatigably engaged in all manner of exuberant activities.Allow me to unravel that. ...