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Dowling crash needs further explanation

The automobile accident that has sidelined state representative Matthew Dowling of Uniontown sounds awful: traveling alone, police say, DowlingĢƵ vehicle plowed through a field before striking a tree 100 yards off a road in Upper Leacock Township in Lancaster County.It was 7 in the evening. ...

Colin Powell on the Vietnam War

If you were in the stateside service in the early to mid-70s – as I was – you may have noticed a certain lack of discipline and esprit de corps among the troops.Even a lowly recruit serving in the Army Reserves sensed something was wrong. Toward the tail end of basic training at Fort ...

Frightening: The return of Trump

As Halloween approaches, hereĢƵ something scary to contemplate, and unlike black cats crossing your path and cracks in the sidewalk, this is real: Donald Trump as candidate for president of the United States.As spooky is what a third Trump candidacy would do to the GOP, whose Republican, ...

Democrats trip on way to nirvana

The past several weeks have not been kind to Democrats, and if they are unable to pass their sweeping domestic legislative agenda, at least in some form, things could go from bad to worse.Ten months into the Biden presidency, Democrats are in a deep funk.For one thing, their poll numbers are ...

Reviving democracy in the classroom

In an essay nine years ago, Eric Liu, a former White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, said that civics – as in high school history and social studies – was “unsexy.”A real turn-off, man.Kids aren’t learning a thing, Liu maintained. Or, they’re not learning whatĢƵ both ...

With gate off, is the game still on?

On Sept. 23, 1956, 44,932 “bug-eyed” fans (as Bob Prince would say) squeezed into Forbes Field, which had seating for only 34,249 of them.How the Pirates managed to accompany a crowd that was better than 10,000 overcapacity can hardly be imagined. Where did those without seats stand? How ...