On A hot Saturday in 1979, while mowing the lawn at my family home in Washington, my wife Tricia called me to the landline. The familiar Irish-tinged, booming voice of Joe Coyne, the then spokesman ...

While residents were moved from Niagara Falls’ Love Canal neighborhood when President Jimmy Carter declared a state of emergency in 1978, a year later, the question of remediation remained.

Re: “Cold Cotton Bowl of 1979,” by Cynthia R. Gudgel, Thursday Letters. As a septuagenarian and lifelong Dallasite, I could not help but smile as I read Gudgel’s recollection of that frigid New Year’s ...