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Economic Impact of a Shortage of Plumbers Should Concern Everyone

From the Right / Salena Zito /

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

From the Right / Salena Zito /

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

From the Right / Salena Zito /

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

From the Right / Salena Zito /

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

From the Right / Salena Zito /

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

From the Right / Salena Zito /

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

From the Right / Salena Zito /

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'

From the Right / Salena Zito /

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

From the Right / Salena Zito /

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

From the Right / Salena Zito /

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

TR's Presidential Library Comes to Life in North Dakota

From the Right / Salena Zito /

MEDORA, NORTH DAKOTA -- When you come into the Badlands -- as opposed to the approach to the Rocky Mountains -- the ground dramatically dips. It's here that you can experience the same views that a 24-year-old Theodore Roosevelt found when he arrived in 1883, determined to kill a buffalo and experience the American West, which he understood ...Read more

The Silent Death by a Thousand Cuts in Manufacturing

From the Right / Salena Zito /

WILMERDING, Pennsylvania -- By July of this year, the last man on the job here at the Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation will, in all likelihood, turn around as he reaches the threshold of the same front door hundreds of thousands of workers have passed through since the 1890s. For the last time, he will look out over the 300,000-...Read more

Left to Rot, Bedford Springs Celebrates Regaining Its Former Glory

From the Right / Salena Zito /

BEDFORD, Pa. -- For nearly two decades, every time the alarm rang out from Bedford Fire Department No. 1, people in town would say a little prayer that the call wasn't for the old Bedford Springs Hotel -- a primarily wooden structure built when Thomas Jefferson was president that was sitting abandoned just a mile outside town.

Bedford ...Read more

 

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