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Dems need a 67-county strategy

<span class="print_trim">By Richard Robbins</span>LetĢƵ say you are a guy who started out working at a steel mill in 1970, got married, had kids and bought a house, was laid off when the steel industry crashed, took classes to learn, oh, plumbing, but for one ...

Trump: An international dud

 President Trump is now fighting wars on two fronts.In this country, heĢƵ battling those pesky, impeachment-happy Democrats.Overseas, heĢƵ battling any world leader who doesn’t bow (or curtsy) at the sight of him.At this point, heĢƵ losing on both fronts.Last week, while Democrats were ...

‘Hell all day’: The Bulge in memory

HereĢƵ something barely comprehensible: veterans of World War II will be with us until at least 2030. This projection comes from the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.HereĢƵ the math: Some sixteen million men served in the armed services during the war, which, for the United ...

Collision: The military vs. President Trump

Making complete sense of last weekĢƵ Navy SEAL-Navy Secretary blowup is impossible, from this distance at least, though one thing is clear: President Trump had no business interfering with the review that was underway to determine whether Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher should remain part ...

Everyone was in the loop

Donald Trump had a plan.He’d take out Joe Biden with a carefully formulated scandal.That plan didn’t work.Trump and his fellow Republicans are being revealed as dunderheads at the ongoing impeachment hearings.Oh, Republicans swear they’re seeing it another way.That Trump was merely making ...

And now, hands across Route 40

The pronouncement the other day by South Union Township supervisor Robert Schiffbauer that the township was hopeful of cooperating with North Union on projects beneficial to both was heartening.“We are in a similar situation and we want to see their growth continue,” Schiffbauer told the ...