The COVID-19 crisis has helped to change driving habits. Some people will continue to work from home, delivery services will continue to thrive and vacation time may be spent closer to home.As I explained previously, major auto insurance companies recognized quickly that they were seeing lower ...
<em>Editor's note: This story has been updated. </em>Joni Burskey said everybody who knew her brother, Louie Gasvoda, liked him. And he liked everybody.“He was just something else. He was a true friend to all, and he was a great brother,” said Burskey of ...
Small businesses are much more than hobbies occupying quaint storefronts in small towns across America.Small business is the lifeblood of the American economy. According to data from the Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, there were 5.6 million employer firms in the United States ...
Work has ceased temporarily at the ArcelorMittal coke production plant in Monessen.Production there ended June 23, the company reported. “That was the last day that we pushed coke from the ovens and pushed the ovens empty,” an employee said in an email. Cleanup was completed Thursday.The ...
Gasoline continues to become more expensive in Western Pennsylvania.The average cost of a gallon of unleaded self-serve is $2.479 this week, a 3.9-cent bump from $2.440, AAA East Central reported. That figure is 46.9 cents cheaper than it was a year ago, when fuel cost $2.948.Pennsylvania’s ...
Enrollment in journalism schools soared after the dogged reporting of <em>Washington Post</em> reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein helped bring down Richard Nixon’s presidency in the 1970s.Could the COVID-19 pandemic, an even more earth-shattering event, help ...
