Winding its way through Congress is legislation that would require the U.S. Postal Service to track crashes of vehicles carrying mail. The legislation, which carries the name Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act, and which passed the House on May 6, also would punish USPS contractors that fail to ...
If you have a child in a day care program, congratulations are in order. You were lucky that you were able to get them enrolled in one, given how long the waiting lists are at some child care centers. And here’s something you might have noticed when you drop off your child in the morning ...
The Washington County municipalities of McDonald and Midway, along with Robinson and Mount Pleasant townships, are considering regionalizing their police departments into one unit rather than four separate entities. Town hall meetings have been held on the subject and, from our vantage ...
Thomas P. Hoving was an esteemed director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, but he secured his place in history outside the world of art thanks to a remark he made during a brief stint as the city’s parks commissioner in June 1966. Meningitis cases were cropping up throughout ...
We’ve been told many times and in many ways that to err is human. Perhaps just as human is the impulse toward nostalgia. Once you reach adulthood, or are deep in middle age or on the cusp of your “golden years,” it’s entirely understandable to look back on your younger days with a ...
The Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan is notorious for having written in November 2012 that she believed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was going to win the election based on the number of yard signs she had seen and “vibes.” It turned out, however, that the ...
