In 2019, a list of pay raises in the Pennsylvania governorĢƵ office brought criticism.Gov. Tom Wolf handed out increases to some of his top staffers, ranging from 7.7% to 36%.It wasn’t that anyone questioned the work. People questioned the timing, which came just after the governorĢƵ ...
July marks another anniversary for the coal strikes that roiled Western Pennsylvania and, most especially, Fayette County in the early months of Franklin RooseveltĢƵ fabled New Deal.The 1933 strikes by miners working for outfits like the rabidly anti-union H.C. Frick Coal and Coke Company ...
On July 3, 1776, shortly after the approval of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail. "I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States," ...