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 ...
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 ...
Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor fallen veterans, is a red letter day for American labor - literally. On Memorial Day 1937, union blood was spilled in Chicago, when 10 were killed and nearly a hundred protesters were injured during a steelworkers' strike rally. It was a tragic, ...
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 ...
George W. Bush recently made a point of saying, about George Washington, that the first president of the United States, "by relinquishing power rather than holding onto it ... ensured America wouldn't become a monarchy, or worse." Bush's words were taken as a swipe at President Donald Trump, ...
