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Bob Huggins’ golden opportunity

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 ...

Bobby Jr. and the politics of crazy

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 ...

The city’s re-launch of Bailey Park

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 ...

The many ways this day is ‘special’

If this is Sunday, April 23, 2023, then it must be National Table Top Tennis Day ... and National Lost Dog Awareness Day ... and National Picnic Day ... and National Lovers’ Day ... and National German Beer Day ... and National Cherry Cheesecake Day ... and World Book Night ... and St. ...

The problem of men in black robes

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to the prescription drug mifepristone in 2000. Last week, 23 years and five presidential administrators later, a federal judge in Texas placed a preliminary hold on the use of mifepristone, one drug in a two-drug combination used to ...

In defense of a rules-based world

Robert KaganĢƵ “lesson for all time” is that peace – as in the absence of war among nations – is most often squandered when threats to the peace “are not obvious and the need to do something is not obvious.”This, it seems obvious to say, makes keeping the peace extremely ...