With global satellite and Internet technologies, news travels faster than it ever has. Events, no matter how mundane, and from no matter how remote the village, can be pushed at light-speed to wide screen TV’s, iPads and cellphones with a few clicks of a button.Yet, considering the difficulty ...
Mitt Romney continues to slip in the polls. That could change. He might slip even further.Recent polls indicate that the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida appear to have fallen into the Obama column. Without Ohio, Romney has little chance of winning the presidency.The latest ...
On the front page of the Jan. 31 1946 edition of the Uniontown Morning Herald, a man was pictured with the heading “Uniontown Man Stars In Broadway Classic.”Uniontown native Ralph W. Chambers, it was reported, “accepted his present assignment at the suggestion of Oscar Hammerstein” to ...
The only times Mitt Romney isn’t shooting himself in the foot -- he’s reloading.Mitt’s presidential campaign has serious problems. He limped out of the Republican National Convention with little more than a few superficial efforts to redefine him as a “nice guy.” Then, he had to watch ...
While I’m always fascinated when I find big local news stories that took place many years ago, I’m equally interested when I find little items that help give me a better understanding of what life was like in previous centuries.Today, I’m taking a look at some of the minor news events ...
It is a sad irony that while many of our “Founding Fathers” would fight for and win freedom from the bonds of England, that they, themselves, were slave owners.George Washington is undoubtedly considered “The Father or Our Country,” but he, too, engaged in what has been called the ...