"Police save youth from lynching in Uniontown,'' was the bold, slightly inaccurate, front-page headline in the Huntington (Pa.) on March 16, 1935.It was a story that made headlines across the country. A 23-year-old man was confronted by a mob of 200 men and women at Newell, after the claim that ...
<em>"Those people in the Republican primary have got to lay off of this stuff. They're forcing their leaders, the front runners, into positions that will mean they lose the general election. They've got to stop this! It's just so counterproductive. If they want to lose, this is ...
In August of 1986, I was quite flattered to be the subject of a feature story with the headline, "It's a Long Way From Baker Alley to Hollywood." It chronicled my slow, but painless rise from being a rather shy, incurably average kid from Uniontown's East End, to work in the heart of "The ...
One thing you can count on in American politics is the ever-changing political landscape.Republican strategist, Karl Rove, has been oft-misquoted as having said he'd like to see a "permanent Republican majority." What Rove did say was, "I (would) like to see the Republican Party be the dominant ...
Most of Uniontown native George C. Marshall's acclaim was about his truly laudable efforts during and after WWII.Yet, there are a few fragments of his history that aren't mentioned as frequently that took place years before.In August of 1923, for instance, Maj. Marshall accompanied the renowned ...
If you listen closely to Republicans, you can learn as much by what they don't say, as what they do.There have already been seven Republican presidential debates going back to May 5. I've taken a real close look at the transcripts of each. It is quite clear Republicans like to talk about ...