EDITOR’S NOTE: Froma Harrop is on vacation this week. Last year on the morning before Christmas, just as much of the country was preparing food for a holiday dinner that […]
Author: Salena Zito
Mike Rowe’s intentionally unintentional intentional purpose-driven life
Mike Rowe has had one heck of a year, and it isn’t even over yet. Rowe, best known for hosting the Discovery Channel’s long-running “Dirty Jobs,” is also involved in […]
East Palestine reckons with its shattered sense of place
EAST PALESTINE — Rick Tsai is standing knee-deep in the briskly flowing Lesley Run creek, a mile downstream of where the massive derailment happened in this Columbiana County village. He’s […]
Parents want education system overhaul
In the wake of COVID-19, people now overwhelmingly believe that the education system’s broader purpose needs to be rethought. This begins with a shift away from standardized testing, college prep […]
Avian flu is crushing poultry farmers
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The public’s pocketbooks have been hit hard by the skyrocketing cost of eggs in the last few months. Prices have doubled and, in some places, tripled over […]
Pa. House Speaker flips from ‘D’ to ‘I’
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Come January in Harrisburg, there are two constants: The annual Farm Show will be better than it was the year before — it always is — and […]
If you’ve made a house into a home …
MT. LEBANON, Pa. — It really was never supposed to be my forever home. Two years ago, I took one last look at what had been home for most of […]
Trump the result of the conservative populist coalition, not the cause
Ever since former President Donald Trump lost to President Joe Biden in 2020, there has been a flag hanging from a home not far from where I live that reads […]
Democrats mastered mail-in balloting
Republicans will pay if they fail to step up The first thing Allegheny County Republican Chairman Sam DeMarco saw on election night after the polls closed was the more than […]
GOP makes its case to middle America
MONONGAHELA, Pa. — Whether by design or necessity, the decision by House Republican leaders to kick off their Commitment to America in this river town on the edge of Allegheny […]
