Oct 5th, 2024 · Comments Off on Op/Ed: Bob Casey stands shoulder to shoulder with veterans
By Dave McLimans, Special To The Times
Dave McLimans
I’d been in the Army for two years by the time I arrived in Vietnam, but neither my training nor the stories of other soldiers prepared me for the devastation I encountered there.
Just as chilling as the bombed-out buildings and exhausted troops were the huge swaths of jungle reduced to ghostly lunar landscapes by Agent Orange.
My United Steelworkers...
May 13th, 2017 · Comments Off on Comey firing raises the stakes for 2018 elections
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
Just when the healthcare mess seemed ready to drown our local Congressvictims in a Jonestown Flood like deluge, President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James B. Comey, Tuesday, swooped in and saved them by changing the subject.
And by saving them, I mean sparing them from a looming electoral firing squad by hitting them with a flaming asteroid.
While Pennsylvania’s...
Op/Ed: Bob Casey stands shoulder to shoulder with veterans