Fayette County had an esteemed visitor 60 years ago tomorrow.President Harry S. Truman made Connellsville a leg on his whistle-stop tour in support of Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson.As I鈥檝e written before, it was the third of four visits (1935, 1944 and 1953) Truman paid to ...
In October of 1907, 105 years ago this month, a world renowned Sunday school teacher paid a visit to Uniontown. H.J. Heinz, the noted pickle and catsup industrialist, took a little time away from the major American company that bore his name to give a speech at the forty-third annual convention ...
Back in 2002 Mitt Romney proclaimed, 鈥淚鈥檓 not a partisan Republican. I鈥檓 someone who is moderate, and my views are progressive.鈥滺e was campaigning to become the governor of Massachusetts -- one of the most liberal states in the nation. He won.But how did he govern? He鈥檚 bragged that ...
Have you ever wondered what it would look like if somebody really did 鈥渟tick their foot in their mouth?鈥� I think about that all the time.I have two (twin) grandchildren who do that kind of thing a lot. But they鈥檙e only six months old. They鈥檒l chew on anything. Their cartilages and ...
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鈥檚, 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 ...