My proper British grandmother, Dora, loved cats (as long as they lived outdoors). There was never a time when we did not have at least two or three feral cats on our back porch. They always sat on the porch steps and played with me as a kid. Kitties were my friends. Twenty years later, we ...
Over the past 20 years I have come to know many Ukrainians: friends I made during my visits to their country; journalists and professionals visiting the United States I helped to host; and the refugees I have been teaching as a volunteer tutor of English as a Second Language. I share with them ...
“All that glitters is not gold,” goes the aphorism made most famous by William Shakespeare in his “The Merchant of Venice.” 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 ...
Those of us who are not recent immigrants, seeking help from federal agencies, supportive of Ukraine, investors, employed by a university, retail shoppers, small business owners who rely on imports, or someone who cares about the future of traditional American values may not have yet been ...
As a teacher, husband, and new father in the ’70s, expectations of what it meant to be a man changed. I can remember telling a friend, “I grew up idolizing John Wayne and had to become Alan Alda.” For my younger readers, it meant that men raised to admire the strong, silent, macho type ...
Pennsylvania American Water newly released grades from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2025 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, a comprehensive assessment of the nation’s 18 major infrastructure categories, paint a grim and stagnant picture for water and wastewater ...
