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Ford, Edison and their Summit stay

On a wall near the Historic Summit Inn registration desk hangs a framed page with the signatures of some famous guests from long ago. Two signatures belong to two titans of the early 20th century whose work transformed America and the world forever. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison spent a night ...

The calm at the center of the storm

Democrats are in turmoil, everyone, that is, except the Democrat at the center of things, President Joe Biden. Sure that he is on track to administer another thrashing to Donald Trump this November, the president is serene - maybe too serene, to paraphrase movie westerns. "He betrays no ...

Trump primary vote not adding up

Despite losing the White House in 2020, Donald Trump is running for president again as an incumbent. Just ask him. Or better yet, ask the eight starry-eyed Republicans who lined up to debate him beginning last summer, only to have Trump refuse to engage them and their Potomac River ...

A long time coming: a coal surge

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 ...

Aging Joe may need a campaign jolt

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 ...

Democracy and the problems of news

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 ...