Mike Rowe has had one heck of a year, and it isn’t even over yet.Rowe, best known for hosting the Discovery Channel’s long-running “Dirty Jobs,” is also involved in shows called “The Story Behind The Story,” “The Way I Heard It,” “Somebody’s Got to Do It,” “How America ...
If you ask most people, including most journalists, what the job of the press is, they will reasonably respond with a number of high-minded cliches: “report the news,” “hold the powerful accountable,” “inform the public,” etc.That’s all well and good. But you almost never hear ...
CAMDEN, S.C. – The days of urging businesses and people to migrate south are officially over, or they should be. We’re becoming overpopulated so quickly here that resources are strained, traffic is jammed and people are getting grumpy.Energy officials recently warned that South Carolina’s ...
Three recent University of Pittsburgh studies focused on health impacts for people who live near shale gas operations, sometimes called fracking. These studies showed, once again, that Pennsylvania must do more to defend the health of residents in our region.As a project coordinator for the ...
The cataract of anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses has been shocking, but it shouldn’t be surprising.It is the poisoned fruit of teaching a generation of college students to despise their own civilization.Jesse Jackson famously led a chant at Stanford University in 1987, “Hey, hey, ...
We get the allure of the Great American West, the majestic landscapes, rivers teeming with trout, clean air. When TV talk show star Kelly Clarkson announced she and her family were leaving Los Angeles, she said her first choice was “Montana.” She kept moving, though, landing in New York ...
