During the mid-winter months of 1957, Fayette County experienced a full-scale crime wave.At first, though, there was a series of isolated burglaries that tended to indicate the burglars had been quite selective.According to a story on the front page of the Jan. 14 edition of the Uniontown ...
Back in 2007, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said of Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, "There's only three things he needs to make a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11."It was a laugh-line, but Biden was still making a serious point.Giuliani's frequent references ...
It was the first basketball game played at Uniontown High School's brand new gymnasium. Uniontown took an early lead, and never looked back in a 60-44 defeat over Connellsville. The date was Jan. 4, 1955.Ironically, it was the Connellsville Falcons who helped Uniontown open its current gym back ...
If there's anything consistent about Mitt Romney, it's his inconsistency.The last time he ran for president, he came out squarely (as squarely as he could ever be) against the involvement of the courts in campaign finance laws."It is the people who are sovereign in America: not a few folks in ...
The front page of the Jan. 27, 1942, edition of the Uniontown Evening Standard carried an item that, on its surface, might seem a bit curious today.But when you consider the circumstances, a talking groundhog, who happened to make an announcement that he wasn't going to make a weather ...
Mitt Romney sure likes to fire people. I'm not making that up. He said that himself.So what if I took his words out of context? He's said he has "broad shoulders," and, too, "politics isn't beanbag."Besides, context doesn't really mean much to Mitt Romney, unless it's his words that are getting ...