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Child and animal abuse, GOP style
In 1996 Republicans shamelessly used a Democrat donkey and their own children at a rally in Pittsburgh's Point Park to help the doomed ticket of Bob…
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High School Hell Week
One of the reasons the Penn Hills football team was a powerhouse in the ‘90s is that its players and coaches spent a week sweating all day in practice…
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When Time still mattered
In 1998 Time magazine was doing big, important and substantive articles including this one documenting the corporate winners in our system of crony…
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Beating up Bill Moyers
The sainted PBS star and former LBJ operative got a rare but deserved bashing in the New Republic. My weekly take on America's news, culture and ideas…
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Dole campaign almost eclipsed by meteorite
The Big Three mags were ready to go nuts over a meteorite from Mars until Dole chose Kemp as his VP. My weekly take on America's news, culture and ideas…
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Undercover in the Land of Jim Crow, Part 4
Ray Sprigle's 1948 pioneering newspaper series is continued: Chapter 17 through 21.
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Undercover in the Land of Jim Crow, Part 3
Ray Sprigle's 1948 nationally syndicated series continues -- Chapters 11 through 16.
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Undercover in the Land of Jim Crow, Part 2
Ray Sprigle's powerful and pioneering 1948 newspaper series' is continued -- Chapters 4 through 10.
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In the Land of Jim Crow, Part 1
78 years ago white readers across the North were shocked by this historic newspaper series exposing how awful life was for blacks in the Jim Crow South…
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Dave Barry, print funnyman
In 2005, not long after Pope Benedict XVI was named, the retired newspaper humor columnist came to Pittsburgh to give a talk to some group or other. It…
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Trouble in Gaza, 2009
Aaron David Miller was a top Middle East adviser to six U.S. secretaries of State. What he thought Israel should do about Gaza was a bloody military…
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Resurrecting 'Night of the Living Dead'
In 1990 director Tom Savini's job was to remake George Romero's horror classic in the sticks of western Pennsylvania. It was a bloody job, but just a…
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