Cheers & Jeers Cheers: For the past three years, Bridge to Home Animal Rescue in Eighty Four has rescued dozens of dogs on New Year’s Eve. This year, the organization brought 38 dogs to be fostered here from an abandoned shelter in Kentucky. A team of volunteers left Washington at ...
Americans love their cars. We’ve been celebrating them in song at least since “My Automobile Boy” in 1901, and continuing on through to “You Can’t Afford to Marry, If You Can’t Afford a Ford,” “Cadillac Boogie,” “Little Red Corvette” and “Pink Cadillac.” We spend ...
Cheers: Most of the Salvation Army red kettles that people toss money into during the holiday season are filled with everyday coins or maybe $1 or $5 bills. But on Christmas Eve, someone dropped a rare gold coin worth $2,700 into the red kettle at the Giant Eagle store outside Washington. It ...
When you look back on recent American history, you can see how one event reverberated through – and in some ways defined – a whole decade. In the 2000s, 9/11 set the tone and established the most urgent issues for that time all the way through the financial collapse of 2008-09 – which ...
The fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York on March 25, 1911, still stands as one of the most devastating workplace tragedies in United States history. When the blaze broke out on the eighth floor of the factory late in the afternoon on that Saturday, scores of workers – ...
JEERS: In the same way that it doesn’t hurt to look before you leap or check the depth of the water before you jump in a lake, it also doesn’t hurt to check the provenance of information or images you post to social media. That’s a lesson that state Sen. Doug Mastriano learned the hard ...
