Joe Angelelli takes heart in a finding from a study on nonviolent protests: Once 3.5% of the population shows up consistently in protest of an issue, it flips. A Thursday forum in Carmichaels, which drew about 35 people to hear about the potential impacts of the Trump administration’s ...

Southwestern Pennsylvania does not come close to rivaling regions like northern Virginia or the corridor between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., for its number of federal employees, but the large-scale layoffs of the federal workforce that have been initiated by the White House and the ...