Down Alabama way, a coal miners’ strike, now in its fourth month, echoes strikes in the coal fields of Western Pennsylvania in the 20th century. Read more

President Biden’s meeting with the families of the 13 service members killed by ISIS-K terrorists at the Kabul airport during the recent airlifts out of Afghanistan was difficult, we are told. Read more

It’s too bad George Marshall never became president of the United States. If he had, Uniontown today might have a presidential library. Tourists (and scholars) would be knocking themselves silly to get here, clogging the sidewalks, spending money. Read more

It was a cloudy, rainy day. Read more

The struggle over an infrastructure bill in Congress may have a way to go. But rest assured, there’s a professional in the White House who’s determined to see it across the finish line. Read more

On the theory that it’s good to look back, here is a story of one James Veech of Uniontown, lawyer, businessman, and, in the first summer of the American Civil War, one of three men appointed by the governor of Pennsylvania to ensure that volunteer militias were paid on time and in the right… Read more

On the theory that it’s good to look back, here is a story of one James Veech of Uniontown, lawyer, businessman, and, in the first summer of the American Civil War, one of three men appointed by the governor of Pennsylvania to ensure that volunteer militias were paid on time and in the right… Read more

Indulge me a moment as I engage in some idle sports idolatry: In 1957, Ted Williams, the Boston Red Sox slugger, batted an American League-best .388. Read more

The attack on the foreign flags at the George C. Marshall Memorial Plaza at Uniontown’s Five Corners – the suspect in the case told police the national emblems had no business flying in the good old U.S. of A. – brings to mind this fact: General-of-the Army Marshall was a nationalist in an i… Read more

“Happy Fourth of July,” we tell one another. We may not always mean it. Read more

If you’re in the neighborhood this week, you might want to stop at the mountainous Route 40 Summit hotel – officially the Historic Summit Inn Resort. It’s an anniversary, of sorts. Ninety-nine years ago on July 2, the president of the United States stayed the night, along with his wife the f… Read more

A. James Manchin, whose nephew, the senior lawmaker from West Virginia, is all over the news as the key Senate vote on a variety of topics (from infrastructure to voting rights), never shied away from the spotlight and, as a lifetime Democrat, worked for a Republican governor in the Mountain State. Read more

Life-lessons come in many forms: some from experience, some from parents, relatives, friends, some from osmosis – it’s in the air, baby! Some lessons are drawn from books. These are book-lessons drawn from real life. Read more

Alert to the fact that Donald Trump loves to riff, some party operatives are bracing for off-the-cuff zingers directed at Republican Party Trump dissidents, when the former president speaks this weekend in North Carolina. Read more

In the fall of the first year of the Roosevelt administration, the emphasis was on speed – speed in putting men and women to work and in getting back to some semblance of normality, after three horrible years – years of mounting unemployment and public and personal dislocations. Read more

This is not Dick Nixon’s New Federalism. This is New Federalism on steroids. Read more

Liz Cheney, representative from Wyoming, spoke last week on the floor of the House of Representatives, hours before she was booted from her leadership position by House Republicans. Read more

Voter alert: our district’s Republican congressman, Guy Reschenthaler, recently crossed the aisle to support legislation championed by the speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi! Read more

At the risk of repeating myself: Uniontown and South Union Township should be working together to create a recreation complex that, excuse the cliche, could very well be second to none. Read more

A United Mine Workers of America convention could fill Heinz Field with all of the folks working in the coal industry in 2021 and still have plenty of seats left over. Read more