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The Politics of Steel Are Center Stage in Pennsylvania
BUTLER, Pennsylvania -- On Friday, just hours before United States Steel shareholders approved the sale of the legendary Pittsburgh-based company to Japan's Nippon Steel, Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves stood in front of a packed room of steelworkers at his Butler Works plant and let them know just what he thought of the pending vote. ...Read more
Democrats Should Be Jittery About Pennsylvania Voter Registration Trends
HOOVERSVILLE, Pennsylvania -- If you are a longtime resident of Pennsylvania, it still is a bit of a jolt to the senses to drive through what was once coal country and see an oversized, cheery, red billboard sitting along U.S. 30 reading "VOTE REPUBLICAN."
However, it is a reminder of how much the people who live in these old industrial and ...Read more
Biden's LNG Export Embargo Hurts Farmers, Too
LEBANON, Pennsylvania -- You may not be aware that there's a symmetry in Pennsylvania between farmers and the natural gas industry. But just walk into the Keystone Pork, Poultry Progress and Mid-Atlantic Manure Summit here at the expo center in Lebanon County, put your hands on the propane-shaped stress ball, and you'll start to understand it....Read more
Economic Impact of a Shortage of Plumbers Should Concern Everyone
CORAOPOLIS, Pennsylvania -- Ed Bigley, the business manager for the Pittsburgh Plumbers Union Local 27, says the organization has been serving the region since the dawn of the industrial revolution in the 1870s, when it came under the umbrella of the Knights of Labor.
By July of 1890, it had formed its own stand-alone union, even holding its ...Read more
Biden's Speech Was Not the Win the Political Class Thought It Was
DELAWARE COUNTY, Pennsylvania -- It is a bit jarring to observe the divide between what the legacy press, Democrats and cable news hosts observed when they watched President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, and how persuadable voters of both Republican and Democratic leanings reacted.
On the day after the speech, MSNBC's Joe ...Read more
Biden Cannot Afford to Lose a Single Pennsylvania Voter
PHILADELPHIA -- Northeast Philadelphia native Marc Rayfield is a registered Democrat, considers himself a liberal and voted for Democrats John Fetterman (for Senate) and Josh Shapiro (for governor) in 2022 and for Joe Biden in 2020. Now, though, he says he finds himself estranged from the party due to rising crime and homelessness in his ...Read more
Democrats and Republicans Go Hard Against Biden Regulation
BUTLER, Pennsylvania -- One of the most underreported crises in American culture is the collateral damage people and communities suffer from government overregulation. Just one little regulation can start a spiral that affects an entire community's ability to prosper and thrive, keep generations of families intact, or give students the tools ...Read more
Middle America Is Dying Hard
WEIRTON, West Virginia -- Most people in this town will tell you they'd rather have taken a physical punch to the gut than get the news they received yesterday when Cleveland-Cliffs Steel announced it was idling its tinplate production plant, a move that directly cost 900 people their jobs.
It isn't just those workers who face catastrophic ...Read more
The Impact of a Tiny Country Church Fish Fry Is Immeasurable
PROSPERITY, Pennsylvania -- If you make a fish fry dinner, people will come for miles around. They will even cross several state lines to get to your church basement if the fish sandwich is fresh and spilling out of both sides of the bun, the macaroni and cheese is homemade with just enough crisp on top, and the coleslaw is crunchy and tangy. ...Read more
American Hostage Omer Neutra's Family Pleads for Son's Safe Return
His first name roughly means "first crop," which is what first-born son Omer was for Ronen and Orna Neutra 22 years ago.
The photos his family shares show a young man bursting with life and possibility, broad smiles at the community center where he volunteered after school, pictures with his father attending their beloved New York Knicks ...Read more
Democrats Say Biden's Pause on LNG Is Like 'Throwing a Match in a Bale of Hay'
A robust chorus of congressional Democrats, business leaders and Republicans, as well as international allies, are calling on President Joe Biden to undo the pause he placed on liquefied natural gas exports. Almost in unison, they say his decision undermines his climate agenda, jeopardizes national security, empowers Russia and Iran, and ...Read more
Trump's Inflection Point Began Where No One Was Looking: East Palestine
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio -- The sleet and rain were unforgiving here on Feb. 22, 2023, the day former President Donald Trump came to this small Columbiana County village. Despite the weather and concerns about what was in the air or what kind of chemical was lurking in the pools of mud they were walking in, folks by the hundreds lined up along ...Read more
We Can Elect a Third-Party Candidate, but Not the Way You Think
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania -- A couple of weeks ago, a repairman named James came to my home to run a gauge on my stove to check if it was emitting carbon dioxide, as feared by the gas range company. After polite conversation, the repairman and I started to discuss politics, as one does when you are a reporter curious about how a varied swath of...Read more