We all have our traditions.  Some serious some silly.  And while our friends at the Tribune-Review continue to selectively quote Harry S Tru...

I'm thankful for whoever created this!

For Thanksgiving, at the Tribune-Review : Editor's note: As has become our custom, a reprint of a special editorial on this special da...

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Via an email, the following statement was released by the office of Mayor of Pittsburgh a few minutes ago: Ferguson may be hundreds of mil...

If I understand the prosecutor correctly, Micheal Brown is dead because of social media.

I usually don't like Sunday evenings.  That's time of the week when I have to begin to push back at the weekend momentum in order to...

Yesterday was a Friday - keep that in mind for a bit. In politics when you need to release something to the public that you don't nece...

I am sure you've seen this by now: Global warming isn't real because I was cold today! Also great news: World hunger is over beca...

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My brass quintet has a gig this FRIDAY NIGHT . And when I write "my brass quintet" I don't mean that it's "mine...

This is a non-political announcement. PodCamp Pittsburgh has returned! It describes itself as a "social, new media un-conference....

(Looks like that sonovabich Ed Heath got here before me .  Fine.  I'll just acknowledge that and then go all passive-aggressive and cont...

I was fascinated by the fact that yesterday  marked the 2,094th day since Chuck McCullough was arrested and yet still not faced trial. I w...

Yesterday, an astute reader emailed in a reminder about a certain former County Council member who was arrested more than 5 years ago . At...

Recently From Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz : “In short, net neutrality is Obamacare for the Internet,” the Texas Republican and possi...

From the AP : The United States and China pledged Wednesday to take ambitious action to limit greenhouse gases, aiming to inject fresh mom...

Take a look at this from the Tribune-Review : Separating climate fact from opinion is the focus of a free-market think tank's lawsuit ...

From Rich Lord at the P-G : Three foundations that Richard Mellon Scaife long guided are heading into a season of leadership changes, reor...