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Washington wakes up for the holidays

WASHINGTON – ItĢƵ beginning to look a lot like ... Washington. After years of trauma, the capital feels back to itself for Christmas.The holiday ball for Congress just happened at the White House. The storied Willard Hotel, where Abraham Lincoln stayed days before he was inaugurated, ...

Labor still leaning on ‘Union Joe’

Strikes always hassle someone. Trolley operator strikes in the early 20th century aggravated commuters. Coal miner strikes in the 1920s inconvenienced manufacturers. Auto worker strikes in the 1950s irked new car buyers, car salesmen, and advertisers.Almost by definition, just about any work ...

North Carolina incident showcases need to protect infrastructure

Christmas lights were extinguished in Moore County, N.C., for much of the last week.And that was actually the least of the communityĢƵ problems.Gunfire crippled two electric substations in the rural county Saturday, plunging it into darkness for days on end. Because of the extent and type of ...

Three good men; three great kids’ books

Men get a bad rap. They’re blamed collectively for rape culture, violence, war, poverty, climate change and all other manner of global suffering. They’re forced to apologize on college campuses for their chromosomes, anatomy and athleticism. They’re vilified incessantly in womenĢƵ ...

Greater Pitt’s struggles deepen

Much rah-rah-sis-boom-bahing has been coming out of the Allegheny County Airport Authority about how robust passenger and cargo traffic has been at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) as we continue to put the coronavirus pandemic behind us.But a new analysis of the latest-available numbers ...

Democrats are learning how to win

By removing the Iowa caucuses as the first stop in picking a presidential candidate, would Democrats be giving up on Iowa? Not at all. The opposite could happen.ItĢƵ true that the Iowa caucuses crowned Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, two times each, and the state followed in the ...