SCRANTON, Pa. — Ask a restaurant owner how difficult the COVID-19 era has been, and the list of struggles is lengthy — loss of customers, supply chain […]
Author: Salena Zito
Tearing of our social fabric
PITTSBURGH — When the Hampton Battery was dedicated here in 1871 to a young Civil War soldier who lost his life protecting the Union at Chancellorsville, Va., […]
Macomb County GOP ousts party leaders stuck re-litigating 2020
On Monday evening, each of Michigan’s 83 county parties held Republican conventions. Conservatives met with the purpose of electing delegates to the state endorsement convention to begin […]
Pa.’s dramatic shift rightward is a warning sign about overreach
When Ken Miller changed his party registration from Democrat to Republican in September 2020, he said he wasn’t doing it for Donald Trump. He had not voted […]
Recovering from an overdose epidemic
Andrew Ayers is busy working on loading and unloading several machines at Guy Chemical — a massive, 30,000-square-foot industrial facility that sits tucked along the border of […]
It’s the culture, stupid
Cultural attitudes have changed in the past few years. It began when the pandemic went from something we should be mindful of to a power that we […]
Mike Rowe Scholarship highlights lost virtues of hard work and sweat
Tracy Wilson is sitting in the cutest little ranch house in Lusby, Md. It is her dream house — literally her dream house, she explains, as she […]
Covenant between Main St. consumer and big corps is collapsing
Word travels fast in places like Pittsburgh’s iconic small-business district filled with third- and fourth-generation family-owned businesses, the majority of which are centered on two things: relationships […]
Inflation is eating away at America’s small businesses
Of the four restaurants Rick McQuaide owns in Western Pennsylvania, one is barely making a profit, two are losing money and the fourth has been “temporarily” closed […]
How ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ became a swipe at Biden — and the media
The “Let’s Go Brandon” message on the Hoods Up Quick Lube sign, in Greensburg, Pa., was up for four days, but it was long enough for the […]
