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Why not Jerry West for the Senate?

In olden days, when college football was confined to four New YearĢƵ Day bowl games and the NCAA Final Four was played far from the glare of national TV (hard to believe, right?), two presidential wannabes roamed the Mountain State in search of votes ... and Jerry West.Jerry West, basketball ...

The battle for Joe Manchin’s vote

Joe Manchin may be enjoying the limelight as the chief Democratic holdout on the Biden administrationĢƵ trillion-dollar-plus Build Back Better legislation. ItĢƵ been variously reported that Manchin, the linchpin vote in a 50-50 Senate, loves the attention heĢƵ getting, even as he barks at ...

The untimely passing of Rich Trumka

Of all the deaths that took place in 2021 perhaps none was more unexpected and consequential than Richard TrumkaĢƵ, the Greene County native and president of organized laborĢƵ the AFL-CIO.Trumka was 72 when he suffered a fatal heart attack in August on an outing with his family. A cousin, ...

To save the country, tell the truth

As far as I can tell, the number of Republicans against democracy serving in the Pennsylvania General Assembly remains the same as a year ago.You will recall that a month prior to the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, 64 House and Senate Republicans wrote their infamous letter requesting that the ...

Values and the morals of democracy

A few weeks after Christmas late in the 1930s, the president of the United States addressed himself to the problems attendant to “maintaining the morals of democracy.”It was not the first, and it wouldn’t be the last time, that Franklin Roosevelt spoke of civic virtue. He pretty regularly ...

Huge role ahead for local officials

ItĢƵ been reported that both Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo are gearing up to hire a “significant number of people” in the coming weeks and months.The new hires, stemming from the mammoth $1.2 trillion infrastructure legislation passed by ...