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David McCullough, a Pittsburgh native who wrote highly readable histories, died August 7 at age 89.
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As I show in Dogging Steinbeck, Montana had a cameo in the author's iconic road book Travels With Charley
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Vin Scully died this week -- Aug. 2 -- at age 94. In 1987 I interviewed him on the outfield grass at Dodger Stadium. Then 59, he didn't retire until the…
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It's a 1,900-mile drive - one way - but it's always worth a visit to my wife's home state, where her family has a cabin in the woods and way too many…
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With our failed, oppressive and tragic war on covid, we Boomers have wrecked the country and f-upped your futures. A reprise of an update of the apology…
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When the globally iconic race car driver came to Pittsburgh in 1996 to do PR for a Toyota dealership he bought, I got to give him a backseat tour of the…
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The Guardian digs up old dirt on the tactics Uber used to become a global tech giant and thinks it has struck gold.
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My subversive affair with a lovely Communist travel agent during the Cold War still needs a happy Hollywood ending.
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Don't tell Big Media, but the revolt of Dutch farmers is the latest example of the economic chaos and pain that follows the imposition of stupid laws…
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In 1994, before fireworks nights became a weekly religious event in Pittsburgh, I did a feature story on the Zambelli fireworks company for the…
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It wasn't always easy getting to interview the great economist, but it was always worth it.
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In 1962 John Steinbeck's last major work hit No. 1 on the New York Times nonfiction list. In 2012 I proved why it should have been on the fiction list.
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