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Baseball: national pastime or a sport gone bad?

As for saving the national pastime from tedium, hereĢƵ the bottom line: ItĢƵ going to be tough.Tough because there are considerable differences between baseball today and when it rode atop American sports. As for some of those differences, we might consider the performance of Yankee great ...

If it ain’t broke, fix it anyway

Republicans think they have a sure-fire formula for staying relevant and in office.Run campaign ads, in which they promise to block the teaching of Critical Race Theory and sex education in kindergartens while cleaning up the scourge of widespread voter fraud; then stick the word “woke” in ...

Local officials should act – now

Debby Miller can’t shake one horrible memory.Miller, 68, told me the other day that when she was pregnant and living near the city school building on Connellsville Street in Uniontown, a youngster was struck by a car.The little boy died.“It was so tragic,” Miller said. “I cried for ...

I got memories

Today, I’m 26,833 days old.ThatĢƵ not a milestone.ItĢƵ just another way of saying I’m currently in my 73rd year.ItĢƵ also my way of saying I got lots of memories.I’d better put some of them on paper before I forget I experienced them.HereĢƵ one.Back in 1979, while working as a ...

What’s the thing we are not seein

In late May 1930, O’Neil Kennedy made his way from his office at the corner of Pittsburgh and Peter streets to a platform several blocks away, on Church Street, for a ceremony marking the start of construction on a new Bell Telephone building in Uniontown.(The building is still there, across ...

Of french fries, boycotts and cat bans!

Take that!We sure showed the French that we Americans were nothing to mess with back in 2003.When President George Bush was revving up the U.S. war machine and aiming it directly at Saddam HusseinĢƵ Iraq back then, France demurred.French Minister of Foreign Affairs Dominique de Villepin ...