Just as Uniontown is getting ready for Christmas this year, holiday preparations were well underway 107 years ago this week.There was a front page story in the Dec. 12, 1907 edition of the Uniontown Morning Herald that certainly must have caught the eyes of everybody with a sweet ...
There were two things that were on the minds of Fayette County’s newspaper readers 71 years ago this week.While war was being waged in Europe, in December of 1941, there were ominous signs that a new war -- this time in the Pacific -- could ensnare the United States.And there was that ...
Dear Santa, I don’t know if you remember me, but I wrote you when I was five years old. I was a Republican, just because “I Liked Ike.”I’m a 64 year-old Democrat now, who's been a good boy (don’t you call me that) mostly. I hear you’re a Democrat, too. You ride all over the place ...
"Lincoln'' (the movie) has enjoyed tremendous success in theaters. Unfortunately for Lincoln (the man) that wasn’t always the case.I didn’t create that joke. I’m merely passing it along.As for the movie, whenever I sit through a two and a half hour movie, without ever peeking at my watch, ...
Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, thought he’d hit political pay dirt when he openly admitted Republicans are in need of “voter outreach.” To me, it was more of the same, and maybe worse. Gov. Jindal was responding to Mitt Romney’s grousing about his failed presidential ...
They’ve been robbed, I hear. Republicans are so sure that “all of the wrong people” voted for Obama, they’re taking it out on each other. I’m enjoying their chaos.Some of them say their man Romney wasn’t conservative enough. Some are even admitting he was the wrong fellow to unseat ...