鈥淎ll that glitters is not gold,鈥� goes the aphorism made most famous by William Shakespeare in his 鈥淭he Merchant of Venice.鈥� And a researcher at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy says we should keep that phrase in mind when it comes to the claimed economic impact Pittsburgh can ...
I watched Lydia鈥檚 face as she pinched her nose to see what happened when she said the letters 鈥渕鈥� and 鈥渘.鈥� She and my other second-graders couldn鈥檛 produce the two sounds, and her expression spoke volumes: Her nose was vital for her to read. The Pennsylvania Pilot Dyslexia ...
They move among us nearly every day of the year in the Laurel Highlands. Perhaps they鈥檙e sitting in the booth next to you as you sip your morning coffee in a local caf茅. Maybe they鈥檙e shopping next to you at the cute boutique store. Or they could be zipping past you on a bicycle on the ...
When the Gallup Poll asks its monthly question: 鈥淒o you approve of the way Congress is handling its job?鈥� as high as 80% of Americans answer in the negative. Our constitutionally mandated national legislature consistently fails to accomplish even its most basic obligations. On more ...
Growing up, I remember hearing the phrase 鈥淲e the People鈥� in school and thinking it sounded like the beginning of a story. It is, in a way 鈥� a story about a nation built not by kings or conquerors, but by everyday people who believed they could shape their own future. Now, as I鈥檝e grown ...
Cryptocurrency, created in 2009, was designed to be a system of payments that could not be traced, and as might be expected from the design, the early users were mostly people doing business that they wanted to keep secret (mostly criminal activity, though political activists working under ...
