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The letter: A Christmas gift from 1943

"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 long-lost village that refuses to die

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 ...

OP-ED: The Trump way of scene-stealing

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 ÎÞëÊÓƵ“ in this case, that means all of us ÎÞëÊÓƵ“ would look elsewhere for entertainment. The buzz ...

OP-ED: The Trump way of scene-stealing

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 ÎÞëÊÓƵ“ in this case, that means all of us ÎÞëÊÓƵ“ would look elsewhere for entertainment. The buzz ...

Two who placed their faith in democracy

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 ...

OP-ED: The election: Good news for democracy

The results are in, Donald Trump will return to the White House, and so democracy works, right? You betcha, and the fact that Trump is in and Kampala Harris is out should satisfy even the most skeptical election deniers that the 2020 election was on the up and up, too. After all, if the ...