On a New Year's Eve in Uniontown many, many years ago, a wailing infant entered the world. Afterward, that baby, now grown to manhood, helped to save the world from certain tyranny.
George C. Marshall occupied the highest echelons of government. As Army chief of staff, he led the U.S. military ...
"Here it is Christmas Day," my future father-in-law wrote his family in Uniontown in the middle of World War II. Corporal Bob Reynolds was stationed "Somewhere in India" with the 25th Field Hospital, U.S. Army.
"In a couple of hours," Bob wrote, "it will all be over: My first Christmas ...
The columnist's initial reaction to viewing the drought at Yough Lake, east of Uniontown on Route 40, was to think of the recent NASA snapshots of the Mars surface: Like Mars, this tiny slice of Somerset County is, for the moment at least, flat, rocky, and reddish.
Then there is the old arched ...
If there is one thing Donald Trump understands, it's that government, like a good movie, demands quick takes. In Trump-world, no scene runs longer than two minutes.
Were it otherwise, the patrons – in this case, that means all of us – would look elsewhere for entertainment.
The buzz ...
If there is one thing Donald Trump understands, it's that government, like a good movie, demands quick takes. In Trump-world, no scene runs longer than two minutes.
Were it otherwise, the patrons – in this case, that means all of us – would look elsewhere for entertainment.
The buzz ...
Franklin Roosevelt accepted the nomination of his party in June 1936 for a second term as president with a speech that has special meaning today.
In 1936, the United States was still trying to find its way out of the most calamitous economic crisis in its history. The stock market crash of ...