What champs? Despite football’s rabid fans stuffing the North Shore like a mattress in a briefcase last week and setting an attendance record for the annual NFL Draft, Pittsburgh will have a difficult time maintaining its “City of Champions” moniker. After a mediocre season with three ...
I am sure that Lady Liberty is hanging her head in shame. Our country, this beautiful land of the free, is sinking slowly into autocracy. This is not what our Founding Fathers envisioned when they wrote the U.S. Constitution. The present administration needs an education as to what is in the ...
Here in Connellsville we are starting our city’s celebration of the American Revolution with an American history contest. Let’s review for the test: In the early 1770s, King George III rejected all restraints on his power. He sent militarized police to American cities where they ...
On behalf of The Salvation Army, I would like to extend our deepest thanks for the extraordinary generosity shown during the 40th annual Give-A-Christmas campaign, facilitated with kindness by the Herald-Standard. Thanks to your support, we raised a remarkable $24,707—shattering our $10,000 ...
The Monroe Doctrine in 1823 warned European countries to stay out of the Americas and stop colonizing or interfering with newly independent nations; in return, the U.S. promised not to meddle in European affairs. Any attempt by a European power to oppress or control any independent nation in ...
I remember growing up in the patch at Vesta 6; the late 1950s were not a good time in Western Pennsylvania economically. The coal mines and steel mills were laying off workers or only working two or three days a week. My mom and dad never “owed their souls to the company store,” like the ...
