Author: James Hogan
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“How goes the war?” my friend Lee asked as he shook my hand and gave me a hug outside of the coffee shop. Lee is an admirer of the work we do in The Rocks, but it seems daunting to him. We ordered our coffee and sat down. “Seriously, Hogan, what do you think it…
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Ken Hohman (middle) at the prayer vigil for Damar Hamlin at Sto-Rox High School. The headline, tucked inside the paper like most news coming from run-of-the-mill cyclical meetings, read simply “Sto-Rox Director Ken Hohman resigns school board,” and the story would’ve made Sgt. Joe Friday proud. Just the facts. Hohman, Sto-Rox alum and longtime area…
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The news was every bit the shock as the loss of another Pittsburgh Hall of Fame sports hero when Pirates legend Willie Stargell died right on the cusp of being celebrated with a magnificent statue outside of the brand new PNC Park years ago. (Photos)
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Christmas is upon us again. I always get excited for this season. I always look with wonder at the birth of Christ. The arrival of Jesus at the scandalous intersection of an unwed teen mother and claims of virgin birth, and the rescue mission for which Jesus had arrived – to build a bridge of…
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I heard Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” on the radio over Thanksgiving weekend, while my family was in Detroit visiting my wife’s family. It’s colder up in Michigan, and the lyrics about “when the gales of November came slashing” and the area’s relative proximity to where the ore ship took 29 shipmates…
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I was in Kentucky when I got the word. My lifelong friend Terry was gone. Details were few, but I assumed it was likely a gran mal seizure that took him… I’d seen Terry seize enough to know how severe they could be. Sitting in a hotel room with my wife and two of our…
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I was quite thrilled to see Gazette 2.0 honored at the Greater Pittsburgh Area Media Awards. Sonja Reis, head honcho of the paper, has been putting together good product with her team, and winning the Best Community Journalism award is a nice affirmation of the work. It’s tough times for the newspaper industry. Newsprint is…
