Welcome to what is going to be my 2014 election home on these big primary days and election day. Lets get right to my first read of the morning. Polls are open now and the closest thing we have to super tuesday in this Election Year and control of the u. S. Senate is really whats on the line in 2014. It will be defined by the battle for the senate. Given the national environment, republican prospects of regaining control are pretty bright but there are two potential speed bumps and both states that have primaries today, georgia and kentucky. In kentucky, Mitch Mcconnell has waged a Ruthless Campaign to undermine challenger matt bevins credibility. In georgia, its the establishment candidates who are leading a crowd of republican hopefuls in the fight to take on democratic likely democratic nominee michelle nunn. Unlike 2010 and 2012, it appears the establishment has the upper hand this year. Nowhere is that more apparent than in kentucky, where senator mcconnell appears poised to hold
Local history 50 years ago: May 17, 1974 The Interstate Commerce Commission held hearings at Roosevelt Junior High on the future of Norfolk Southern/CSX Railroads, which had purchased Conrail. Gov. Milton Shapp and U.S. Rep. Bud Shuster both testified. 25 years ago: May 17, 1999 The Faith Baptist Church in Altoona, The Rev. Gary G. […]
BEDFORD For nearly two decades, every time the alarm rang out from Bedford Fire Department No. 1, people in town would say a little prayer that the call wasn’t for the old Bedford Springs Hotel a primarily wooden structure built when Thomas Jefferson was president that was sitting abandoned just a mile outside […]