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News almost too crazy to believe

This has been a jaw-dropping week, and that does not even include the federal indictment of a former president of the United States that occurred in Miami on Tuesday.For example, there was the startling news coming out of the Southern Baptist Convention, whereby the nationÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ largest ...

When bots have minds of their own

I’m no expert but it seems to me there might be something to this notion that artificial intelligence – otherwise known as AI – is a whole lot of trouble waiting to happen.Even the people working to bring to market the bots of the future are sounding the alarm. Only recently, the ...

Democracy rule one: trust and abide

In the lead-up to the local elections of 1935, a group of Fayette County Democrats held a political rally alongside a highway near Brownsville.The tone of the rally was set by Charles Lewellyn, a candidate for judge, who told the gathering that he had been in German Township recently when an ...

Bob Huggins’ golden opportunity

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 ...

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 yearÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Democratic convention.It was Jimmy CarterÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ convention (sort of) but Ted KennedyÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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, UniontownÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Bailey Park was pretty much neglected. Once in a ...