On this Labor Day 2022, let us remember ...By the time Ethelbert Stewart arrived on Capitol Hill to talk to lawmakers, he was a practiced hand in the struggles between management and labor.In 1922, Stewart was in his 33rd year as chief statistician for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.鈥淚 ...
Campaign season is upon us. Always earnest, sometimes farcical, but now grim as all get-out, politics takes center stage, along with football, football, and, yes, more football.In particular, and despite the best efforts of county Commissioners Scott Dunn and David Lohr (acting as members of ...
Having lost her seat in the House from Wyoming, Liz Cheney appears poised to run for president. A Republican, her goal will be to keep Donald Trump as far away from the White House as possible.鈥淥f course she doesn鈥檛 win [the nomination],鈥� Bill Kristol, the neo-conservative, Never-Trumper, ...
David McCullough, who died last week at the age of 89, claimed to be a writer first, a historian second. A native of Pittsburgh (the 16th Street Bridge was renamed in his honor in 2013), McCullough was a master of the English language, as he demonstrated in a series of best-selling books, ...
Where does Guy Reschenthaler, the congressman, spend the bulk of his time? You would be on pretty solid ground if you answered, 鈥淣ot in Fayette County.鈥滻n fact, it seems Reschenthaler, in office since 2019, spends little if any time in the county on official business. 鈥淚鈥檝e never met ...
I spent a recent afternoon at the University of Pittsburgh archives looking at the papers of John P. Murtha, the late congressman who at one time represented Fayette County on Capitol Hill.At his death in 2010, the Johnstown Democrat was the 鈥渄ean鈥� of the state蘑菇视频 congressional delegation. ...