During his campaign for president in 2016, Donald Trump promised to revive U.S. coal mining. "You watch what happens," he said. "If I win, we're going to bring these miners back." Of course it didn't happen. When he left office in January 2021, U.S. coal mining employment was down 24%, while ...
Too bad for Joe Biden: well-meaning but old, doddering, and forgetful, unable to recall even the year his son Beau died. That's how the president was recently portrayed by special Department of Justice counsel Robert K. Hur. A Trump-appointed federal prosecutor assigned by Attorney General ...
My ideal of a reporter was David Broder. Starting at the Washington Star, Broder eventually landed with the Washington Post (after the Star folded). A reporter of legendary renown, he showed up one evening in New Castle, where yours truly was a novice with the news. Broder brought with him a ...
You've heard - or read - this before: South Union Township and the city of Uniontown should get together to develop, eh, redevelop, Bailey Park. That is, greater Bailey Park. What is "greater Bailey Park?" That would be Bailey Park plus the fabulous new indoor soccer facility which South Union ...
Talking with a friend recently about the 1940 presidential campaign - the same campaign I wrote about two weeks ago in this space - the campaign that pitted the incumbent president, Democrat Franklin Roosevelt, against the Republican challenger, Wendell Willkie - it occurred to me that I had ...
If somehow we regain our equilibrium, whenever that may be, people will be asking, and historians will be exploring the question, "What was up with those folks?" What indeed! An Iowan named Patricia, eager to cast a vote for Donald Trump in that state's recent presidential caucus, told a New ...