Well, it’s a week after the midterms, and it appears the GOP might just have recovered from their Trump-induced psychosis. It should be a hoot to watch President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron Desantis go at it. The Democrats seem to be crowing a bit too much, though. Last Tuesday’s
Carolyn Thomson’s letter “MAGA Republicans not extremists” (Sept. 8, 
TribLIVE) implores readers not to portray MAGA Republicans as “extremists,” “terrorists” or “neo-fascists.” I find this hard to do given 1,000 or so MAGA Republicans stormed the Capitol in the hope of overturning a free and fair election, but OK —
Letter-writer Dale Vukovich (“Vaccines and gas prices”) must have missed President Biden, Vice President Harris and many of their Democratic friends last October saying they wouldn’t “trust or take the vaccine that was developed under Trump.” He must have missed Biden during the second presidential debate saying that “anyone who
George Yonek sees coins as both an art form and a glimpse into a nation’s culture.
“What people put on coins is indicative of the country’s pride, what’s important to them,” said Yonek, a Penn Township resident who serves as president of the Greensburg Coin Club. “That’s why I collect foreign coins. They tend to be more interesting than American coins. We usually put dead guys on ours.”
Yonek said there are fewer people every year who see coins they way he does. At 56, he’s one of the younger members of the local coin club, which was established in 1959.