By Nick Jacobs My daily routine is to check my newspapers, magazines, social media, and my regular bank account. I’ve never missed even one day. Recently, I decided to venture into the wild and look at the only other account that I have, a business account that, except for a few donations ...
By Gary Stout Residents in the Washington County area assume that local communities represent good examples of American diversity. After all, numerous ethnic groups settled in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Each brought with them a plethora of traditions and religious backgrounds. The many food ...
Over the river and through the woods for fun, warmth and love By Nick Jacobs Back in the day, there used to be something called snow. It was a weather phenomenon that often started in October and ended near the end of April. People went sledding, skiing, and had snowball battles. We also ...
By Dave Ball How will America end? Under a series of mushroom clouds and radioactive fallout? Suffocated by several meters of ash from the eruption of a supervolcano? From dehydration when the last drop of water evaporates as the planet’s temperature reaches 115 degrees? From starvation ...
By Gary Stout “They kiss on the ring, I carry the crown….I'm the man and nothing can break me down” –”The Man,” song by The Killers The idea of a “cult of personality” is a long-standing concept of authoritarian rule that has existed since the time of the Roman emperors in ...
By Oren Spiegler If Donald Trump were an ordinary citizen, he would be dismissed as an inconsequential crazy uncle who sits at a bar ranting and raving about anything and everything. Sadly, though, he is a former president whose words carry power and send messages to his tens of millions of ...
