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What Really Happened to JD Vance in Erie
ERIE, Pennsylvania -- The chaser last Wednesday in Sen. JD Vance's (R-Ohio) trip to this all-important county in the northwestern corner of Pennsylvania came when the Republican vice presidential nominee said Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris can "go to hell" for her handling of the 2021 attack at Abbey Gate in the final days of ...Read more
An Anatomy of a Harris Campaign Stop Shows There Is No There, There!
PITTSBURGH -- Billed as a Pittsburgh kickoff bus tour on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris and running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz instead spent Aug. 18 in Beaver County in tightly controlled stops before heading to Chicago.
Harris held a short rally at a private airport hangar ...Read more
Nuclear Energy Gets Reboot as Electricity Demands Surge
PITTSBURGH -- What if we began looking at nuclear energy in a different way? What if those new perspectives worked and brought people from all sides of the energy equation together for the first time in a generation?
That is the genesis behind Kentucky-based energy group The Nuclear Company, which brought its vision on a bus to Pittsburgh, ...Read more
Shapiro Speaks: Governor Gives Interview on Being Harris Vice President Runner-Up
PROSPERITY, Pennsylvania -- Just under 48 hours after Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) ripped the bark off the tree in his speech at Temple University's Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, where he told the crowd he "loved being their governor" and endorsed the Harris-Walz Democratic ticket, the Pennsylvania chief executive was in tiny Washington ...Read more
Middle America Rattled by Jobs Report
For the past four years, inflation has rattled local small businesses across the country. The inflation rate peaked in 2022, but of course the cost of goods never went back down.
In fact, the prices just kept rising, just not at the same clip they had been rising at the peak.
In short, gas prices, food prices, housing prices, energy...Read more
On Kamala Harris' Role, Media Cross Border Into Outright Lies
Facts are facts, even if they make new presidential candidate Kamala Harris look bad. This fact is undeniable, no matter how much dishonest media try to obfuscate it: President Joe Biden appointed the vice president to stem the tide of migrants to the U.S. southern border. Period. No wiggle room.
And the almost inarguable judgment is that she...Read more
The Most Important 42 Miles in American Politics
BUTLER, Pennsylvania -- The drive between Butler, Pennsylvania, and the Ohio village of East Palestine is less than 42 miles long. In between are the villages and boroughs of Lyndora, Connoquenessing and Evans City on the Pennsylvania side before you cross the state line directly into the village of East Palestine.
It is a stretch of ...Read more
Trump Rewrites Republican Convention Speech to Focus on Unity, Not Biden
WORLD EXCLUSIVE -- Former President Donald Trump has completely rewritten his convention speech in light of the assassination attempt against him on Saturday and will call on Thursday for a new effort at national unity.
In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner a day after being hit by a sniper's bullet, Trump said he wanted to ...Read more
In Pennsylvania Comeback Tour, Biden Says Dark Brandon Is Back
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania -- Pretty much every elected Democrat in Pennsylvania was out in force on Sunday standing shoulder-to-shoulder with President Joe Biden at different venues as he made his way from Philadelphia to the state capital, starting what his supporters here called his comeback moment.
Speaking to campaign volunteers and ...Read more
Democrats May Need the Courage of a Hugh Scott Moment
Hours after President Joe Biden's feeble debate performance Thursday night that left voters across the country stunned, two of Pennsylvania's most powerful Democrats, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) and Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), pushed back against calls for Biden to step down from his reelection campaign.
Shapiro appeared on MSNBC and CNN and ...Read more
Surprises Lurk Beneath Humble Exteriors
BEDFORD, Pennsylvania -- On most days after work, Brandon Borischak can be found doing one of two things: tinkering with car engines or just cars in general, admitting he is that guy whose house you will breeze by on a country road and wonder why he "has a few of them" on his property.
He also spends a great deal of time caring for stray, ...Read more
Mike Rowe Gives Us Something to Stand For
Most of the great filmmakers in American cinema will candidly admit some of the most enduring and memorable moments in their films were scenes or lines that were never in the script.
"Here's looking at you, kid," was never in the "Casablanca" script; it was a Humphrey Bogart ad-lib. "Leave the gun, take the cannoli," from Francis Ford Coppola...Read more
Is Pittsburgh Still Stronger Than Hate?
PITTSBURGH -- For the first couple of years after the Tree of Life synagogue massacre that claimed the lives of 11 members of the Jewish community, Joe Mistick could not bring himself to drive past the synagogue despite its close proximity to his Squirrel Hill home.
"For years, I would do anything, everything, to not drive past it, often ...Read more