It’s time for another BREAKFAST SPECIAL road trip. Bob and Glenn and I get in the fully packed WQED van around 11 a.m. and head east out of Oakland for the City of Brotherly Love.  It’s a beautiful, clear, bitter cold day.  Glenn drives the first leg.  Bob in the passenger seat, me in the [...]

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Last Saturday, January 16, my friend and trusted researcher Paul Korol died at Allegheny General Hospital after being seriously sick for several months.  His wife asked me to say a few words at his funeral Mass this past Thursday.  This is what I said: I met Paul Korol 22 years ago.  He called me one [...]

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It’s already January 7, 2010. I’ve been way too lax about keeping up with this blog.  I will do better in the new year. When last we saw our intrepid TV crew, they were eating ice cream at Tom’s Ice Cream Bowl in Zanesville en route to Columbus.  It was Thursday, December 3, 2009. Truth [...]

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