Ronald Reagan's adage about the old Soviet Union should maybe apply to President Trump's recent sweeping declaration involving U.S. Steel, Japan's Nippon Steel, and the future of American steelmaking in the Mon Valley and elsewhere: "Trust but verify." The president's May 30 rally at U.S. ...
Q. Will you please use my question in your column? I want to know why some people are so hateful about Pride. Let me explain. This is personal to me. My big brother is gay. He鈥檚 not only my big brother, he鈥檚 my best friend. See, I had leukemia when I was 7. Technically, I still have it, but ...
Here are some stories commemorating both Memorial Day and the June 6 anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe in 1944: Pete Giron was a Western Union delivery boy in Greensburg during the Second World War. He was a high school kid, 15 or 16 years old, too young to serve in the military, ...
Q. Good morning and Happy Memorial Day. Why did my gramps get mad at me? I woke up this morning and went to his place like I do just about every day off from school, and I said good morning like always and then I said I was upset because my mom has to work so we鈥檙e not having a picnic for ...
What's an ally worth? Plenty, if you're in a foxhole or storming a beach with one. The same is true if, as a U.S. soldier, you had a native-guide ally on your team in the mountains and villages of Afghanistan in the treacherous months and years after 9/11. Not so much if you are a member of ...
My proper British grandmother, Dora, loved cats (as long as they lived outdoors). There was never a time when we did not have at least two or three feral cats on our back porch. They always sat on the porch steps and played with me as a kid. Kitties were my friends. Twenty years later, we ...
