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Voter alert: our districtĢƵ Republican congressman, Guy Reschenthaler, recently crossed the aisle to support legislation championed by the speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi!Reschenthaler, a regular on Republican cable news outlets where he lays waste to the radical socialist agenda ...

Bailey Park: Collaborate to recreate

At the risk of repeating myself: Uniontown and South Union Township should be working together to create a recreation complex that, excuse the cliche, could very well be second to none.The idea was prompted anew by a recent visit to Bailey Park and two articles in the townshipĢƵ newsletter ...

The UMWA-Manchin grand bargain

A United Mine Workers of America convention could fill Heinz Field with all of the folks working in the coal industry in 2021 and still have plenty of seats left over.The capacity of the Steelers’ stadium is 68,400. There are some 44,000 men and women drawing coal-related paychecks. According ...

Thank goodness for the historians

Thank goodness for Margaret Leech.For as Sean Wilentz, one of the countryĢƵ great academic historians, has written, “When describing history, more is at stake than the past.”Past, present, and future is more like it. How aware would we moderns be, and how significant would we view it, had ...

The beating heart of the Civil War

It was a Sunday in April, a church service in Brownsville. The pastor, Presbyterian minister R.M. Wallace, told his congregants, “It is the duty of all citizens to aid the constitutional authorities in maintaining the supremacy of the Constitution and the laws.“The national government,” ...

Republican lawmakers who publicly refute the 2020 election results that placed Joe Biden in the White House have some explaining to do if they are to be taken seriously and, more importantly, if they are to save the experiment of American democracy.Democracy requires truth-telling. It operates ...