By Aaron Chapin For decades, public school educators and support professionals have witnessed the devastating impacts of underfunding in our public schools. Students who need extra help with subjects such as math or science are not getting it. Large class sizes make it difficult for ...
By Nick Jacobs Recently, a very successful friend shared with me a list of quotes he had collected over the years from individuals who had influenced him during his career. These quotes came primarily from other successful leaders he had interacted with in the region where he worked. ...
By Gary Stout “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” –George Santayana In today’s 24/7 media cycle, minor news stories can run for a week and important ones disappear in a flash. On cable news and social media, biased news sources seek to build up or ...
By John Eckenrode Working in state prisons as a corrections officer for a quarter century, it’s safe to say I’ve pretty much seen it all. That’s why it’s concerning to me, and thousands of officers, to see legislation under consideration in Harrisburg that would eliminate or scale ...
By Dan Weaver Walking into a warm house on a blustery cold day. Turning a knob and having a working stove. Flipping the switch to turn on the lights. Having water when you turn on the tap. These are just a few of the actions we go through every day without even thinking about the energy ...
By Nick Jacobs The headline, “Engineering a Comeback” by Deborah Weisberg in the Pittsburgh Quarterly, immediately caught my attention. At first, I thought it might have been a political article which was something that I had not expected from that publication. Who was it ...
