David McCormick became a U.S. senator on Friday, the first day of business for the 119th Congress. A Republican, McCormick squeezed out a victory over the Democrat, Robert P. Casey Jr., the longtime incumbent whose political career goes back decades. Casey's father, the "real" Bob Casey, was a ...
On a New Year's Eve in Uniontown many, many years ago, a wailing infant entered the world. Afterward, that baby, now grown to manhood, helped to save the world from certain tyranny. George C. Marshall occupied the highest echelons of government. As Army chief of staff, he led the U.S. military ...
"Here it is Christmas Day," my future father-in-law wrote his family in Uniontown in the middle of World War II. Corporal Bob Reynolds was stationed "Somewhere in India" with the 25th Field Hospital, U.S. Army. "In a couple of hours," Bob wrote, "it will all be over: My first Christmas ...
It's tradition that U.S. senators mark the end of their tenures with "farewell" speeches, traditionally delivered standing at their desks on the Senate floor. Released from the demands of politics, senators are more apt to be candid in this setting than they might otherwise be, or so one ...
The intrigue posed by Donald Trump's selection of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services is growing acute. Kennedy, the namesake of a famous dad and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, began 2024 as a Democratic candidate for president. Denied a chance ...
The columnist's initial reaction to viewing the drought at Yough Lake, east of Uniontown on Route 40, was to think of the recent NASA snapshots of the Mars surface: Like Mars, this tiny slice of Somerset County is, for the moment at least, flat, rocky, and reddish. Then there is the old arched ...
