As I write this, Lola, our seven-pound Shorkie, is sleeping beside my left leg. Her breathing and heartbeat seem synchronized with mine. Every few minutes she opens one eye to make sure I am still there. A few months ago, a friend passed away at age 92. His family ended his obituary with ...
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 ...
We’ve joked in the newsroom that folks from our neck of the woods are frequently connected to major news stories or events. We're adding the origin of Father’s Day to the list. Here's why. The first known tribute to honor dads arose out of the worst coal mining disaster in U.S. history ...
Congressman Guy Reschenthaler's continued failure to visit parts of his district has one overriding explanation: In order to be elected time and again, he doesn't have to. The Republican Reschenthaler has occupied a seat in Congress since 2019. His district consists of Fayette, Greene, and ...
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 ...
Everyone has a story. We started sharing some of them on Monday as part of “My American Story,” the newspaper’s monthlong series launched to celebrate America’s 250th birthday. The daily series was conceived as a way to pay tribute to our wonderfully diverse Western Pennsylvania ...
