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In the land of coke: Three takeaways

In the land of coal and coke, the H.C. Frick Company reigned supreme, which is not to say the company had the entire Connellsville Coke Region, stretching from Latrobe to Fairchance, to itself.There was, for instance, the Oliver and Snyder Steel Company, which operated, early in the 20th ...

Once upon a time: the land of coke

I suppose it takes a half generation or so for the collective memory to slip. I recently asked the person I was sitting with at a high school basketball game if she recalled the nickname formerly used by Connellsville sports teams.Today, itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ the Falcons. Before the Falcons, it was ... ...

This Christmas give a book or two

In recent months I’ve had occasion to mention two books by the great Rick Atkinson, a former newspaperman and a Pulitzer winner for his reporting of the first Iraq war.More about The British Are Coming and The Guns at Last Light in a moment.But first, with Christmas just days away, I thought ...

Dems need a 67-county strategy

<span class="print_trim">By Richard Robbins</span>LetÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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

HereÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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.HereÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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 weekÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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 ...