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Dems need a 67-county strategy

<span class="print_trim">By Richard Robbins</span>LetĢƵ say you are a guy who started out working at a steel mill in 1970, got married, had kids and bought a house, was laid off when the steel industry crashed, took classes to learn, oh, plumbing, but for one ...

‘Hell all day’: The Bulge in memory

HereĢƵ something barely comprehensible: veterans of World War II will be with us until at least 2030. This projection comes from the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.HereĢƵ the math: Some sixteen million men served in the armed services during the war, which, for the United ...

Collision: The military vs. President Trump

Making complete sense of last weekĢƵ Navy SEAL-Navy Secretary blowup is impossible, from this distance at least, though one thing is clear: President Trump had no business interfering with the review that was underway to determine whether Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher should remain part ...

And now, hands across Route 40

The pronouncement the other day by South Union Township supervisor Robert Schiffbauer that the township was hopeful of cooperating with North Union on projects beneficial to both was heartening.“We are in a similar situation and we want to see their growth continue,” Schiffbauer told the ...

Democrats to Trump: Here, you win

The other day at a Harrisburg press briefing, Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey highlighted one more way Democrats are angling to lose to Donald Trump in 2020.“The top Democratic presidential candidates,” the senator said, “are competing with each other over who can do more harm to this ...

Remember the soldier on Vets Day

Army Captain Jack Golden wrote his father from Europe during World War II: “I feel like I’m 80.” He was 22-years-old in 1944. “You get so tired you stop doing the small things that are important to your safety and if you get tired enough you don’t care whether you live or die.... We ...