Last season, before tip-offs at West Virginia University home basketball games, the public address announcer would call the crowdÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ attention to the schoolÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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 yearÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Democratic convention.It was Jimmy CarterÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ convention (sort of) but Ted KennedyÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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, UniontownÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Bailey Park was pretty much neglected. Once in a ...