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Parties need to reform themselves

In his after-action summation of last TuesdayÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s election, conservative Henry Olson concluded Republicans have to do better with suburban voters, like the ones in the neighborhoods outside of Philadelphia who backed Democrat John Fetterman in his Senate race against Mehmet Oz.Likewise, ...

LetÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s all vote, then wait for the recounts

ItÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s time to vote.ItÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s also time to claim thereÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s voter fraud everywhere.Lots of Republicans are ready to pounce on election officials from coast-to-coast.TheyÎÞëÊÓÆµ™ll see victory where it isnÎÞëÊÓÆµ™t ÎÞëÊÓÆµ“ thanks to Donald Trump.According to FiveThirtyEight.com, of the nationÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s 552 Republican ...

The dark cloud of political violence

In the early Obama years, I covered Tea Party rallies for my newspaper at the time, the Tribune-Review. The rallies at an abandoned air strip in Westmoreland County were a brew of the utterly mundane and the entirely outrageous.The featured speakers, like former Pennsylvania senator Rich ...

Mike Tyson sure was right!

Now that I have your attention ÎÞëÊÓÆµ“ this isnÎÞëÊÓÆµ™t really about Mike Tyson.ItÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s about something he once said.He was training for an upcoming fight when, as the story goes, a reporter asked him about his opponentÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s plan to beat him.Tyson responded, ÎÞëÊÓÆµœEverybody has a plan until they get punched ...

Is Fetterman well enough to serve?

John Fetterman's debate performance against his rival, Republican Mehmet Oz, for a seat in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday night was as bad as it gets. The lieutenant governor and former mayor of Braddock, the victim of a stroke last May, stumbled over his words so badly and so often that it was ...

The Halloweens of my youth

As I recall, Halloween used to last for weeks.IÎÞëÊÓÆµ™m 74 years old. My memories of Halloween are about 65 years old. So, once again, to me, Halloween used to last for weeks.At my age, embellishment-laced nostalgia is oh, so soothing.Up there on Coolspring Street, we used to gather platoons of ...