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Murder by meme

The Mon Valley, an area ravaged by deindustrialization just outside of Pittsburgh, has attracted thousands of new immigrants in recent years, a fact President-elect Donald Trump exploited in his successful campaign for the White House.

Congo Square Theatre presents How I Learned What I Learned by August Wilson. Harry Lennix is featured in this one-man autobiographical play about growing up in Pittsburgh and moving through the experiences that would form him as a man and an artist.

"I'm not a progressive. I'm just a regular Democrat." Fetterman is in the first year of a six-year term. He has time to repair relations with progressives or sever ties altogether. At this point, the latter is rapidly happening anyway.

3rd in three-part posting on Steelworkers Fightback reform movement in the 1970s. Brown documents issues and personalities that drove the movement of relevance today in understanding and appreciating reform movements underway today.

A resounding victory in the primary race to be the next Allegheny County Executive shows that bold candidates can defy conventional wisdom by taking on the fossil fuel industry in its own backyard.

Reader Comments: 2020 - Nevada, Medicare 4 All, Campaign to Stop Bernie, Culinary Workers, Pittsburgh AFL-CIO; Economy a Bust; NYC School Segregation, Corporate Schooling; Black History; Civil War, Reconstruction; Labor Notes; lots of announcements;

The president and his supporters insisted that several thousand Honduran migrants were a looming menace—and the Pittsburgh gunman took that seriously.

Pittsburgh's much-touted revival has remade the region for the wealthy while leaving workers and the poor behind.