Having lost her seat in the House from Wyoming, Liz Cheney appears poised to run for president. A Republican, her goal will be to keep Donald Trump as far away from the White House as possible.鈥淥f course she doesn鈥檛 win [the nomination],鈥� Bill Kristol, the neo-conservative, Never-Trumper, ...
David McCullough, who died last week at the age of 89, claimed to be a writer first, a historian second. A native of Pittsburgh (the 16th Street Bridge was renamed in his honor in 2013), McCullough was a master of the English language, as he demonstrated in a series of best-selling books, ...
Where does Guy Reschenthaler, the congressman, spend the bulk of his time? You would be on pretty solid ground if you answered, 鈥淣ot in Fayette County.鈥滻n fact, it seems Reschenthaler, in office since 2019, spends little if any time in the county on official business. 鈥淚鈥檝e never met ...
I spent a recent afternoon at the University of Pittsburgh archives looking at the papers of John P. Murtha, the late congressman who at one time represented Fayette County on Capitol Hill.At his death in 2010, the Johnstown Democrat was the 鈥渄ean鈥� of the state鈥檚 congressional delegation. ...
Is this a slippery slope, or has the Fayette County Elections Board already tumbled into voter suppression and democracy denialism?Whatever the case may be, it鈥檚 frightening 鈥� frightening in and of itself and frightening for what it could mean for the elections for governor and U.S. Senate ...
The jig is up. I don鈥檛 know everything. To prove it, three stories from last week left me scratching my head. (At least three. There may have been more. In the age of social media and everyone鈥檚-a-reporter, it鈥檚 impossible to read everything.)The first involved of all people Josh Hawley, ...