Author: James Hogan
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I’m often sad at the division in our country. It’s so bad that I sort of think we should find a peaceful way to divide the land and divorce. I hate saying that. Yet, we’re in a situation where both halves of our country don’t want to live under the other half. I went to…
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—POINT-COUNTERPOINT— When is enough, enough? Meetings are being held in McKees Rocks with the Allegheny County Housing Authority to talk about the disposition of the Hays Manor public housing community. Ideas, all involving more engagement with ACHA, abound. It can’t legally be rebuilt in the same stacked, packed design of old, so the county is…
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Stay in your lane. I’m not always a fan of that – rebels can have a positive impact, and creative people don’t do well in lanes – but in much of life we count on people to stay in their lane. People talking about Kenny Pickett – the Steelers first round drafted quarterback from Pitt…
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Juneteenth is a holiday some don’t grasp the meaning of, others don’t care for, and many celebrate. When President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1963, ending chatel slavery in America, it was a cause he believed in, yet, he had ulterior motives, too. England had ended their participation in the slave trade years…
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Where there is no vision, the Bible says, the people perish. I thought of this verse last year when I had an off day from work and went fishing with my friends John Force and John Dombroski. We had parked on the street to the side of Heinz Field facing PNC Park and walked down…
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Many of you, if you’re in your twenties or older, remember Billy Mays. Billy, for those who don’t know, was a local-boy-who-made-it story for McKees Rocks. He left the area to sell products on the Atlantic coast from a tent that Faithbridge uses now for our summer cookouts, and was so energetic and filled with…
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There are lots of people hurting today. War in Ukraine, inflation through the roof, troubles stacking up on family finances. Lots of trouble and few answers it seems. Here in Stowe, where my office is and I sit typing, the last two days of school before Spring Break involved fights, lockdowns, an injured teacher and…
