June 27, 1936, Philadelphia: Rain threatened to disrupt President Franklin Roosevelt's speech outdoors at Franklin Field. By the time evening fell, however, starlight glinted through patchy clouds. On this fourth and final day of the Democratic National Convention, some 100,000 party faithful ...
My twin grandchildren graduated from high school this past week. They are good kids, and, I think, their friends are also good kids - excuse me, young adults. I have little patience with the perennial wail about the faults of the younger generation - that they are lazy, uninterested in ...
You would think that by now I would have learned to expect the unexpected from Donald Trump; but, no, I'm fooled just about every time some new scheme is proposed, or rather, is thrown against the wall for the public's edification. The president, or one of his legion of ultra loyalists in the ...
Parents and others concerned about educational outcomes and the rising generation may want to take a look at the Belle Vernon School District. A national survey released Wednesday suggests the district is doing something right while many others are not. According to the Educational Opportunity ...
Donald Trump was right. The White House Correspondents' Dinner, suspended by a shooting incident in the corridor outside the room where the banquet was underway, should have reconvened and continued. As the president told Norah O'Donnell of CBS News, "I don't want a crazy person - I think it's ...
Once, a Marine from Fayette County was laid to rest in a Connellsville cemetery, with his family, including his grieving mom and dad, beside the open grave. Earlier on the day of the burial, the pastor at the funeral service eulogized the young leatherneck as a warrior in the service of God ...
