Last season, before tip-offs at West Virginia University home basketball games, the public address announcer would call the crowdĢƵ attention to the schoolĢƵ promise to treat every person with respect.The pronouncement usually came amidst a welter of noise and other distractions, but ...
Until recently, the last time a member of the vaunted Kennedy family was in presidential campaign mode was on the evening of Aug. 12, 1980, in New York City. The occasion was that yearĢƵ Democratic convention.It was Jimmy CarterĢƵ convention (sort of) but Ted KennedyĢƵ night. The senator ...
Municipal government is frequently a tale of failed attempts, of civic woe compounded by familiarity: The garbage doesn’t get picked up, the pothole doesn’t get filled in, the yard across the street remains an eyesore.For years, UniontownĢƵ Bailey Park was pretty much neglected. Once in a ...