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Young George’s Fourth
By Salena Zito ~ JUMONVILLE GLEN, Pa. Between this heavily wooded ravine along an Allegheny Mountains summit and the “great meadow” down the road, a young George Washington offered his only surrender in battle. The date was July 4, 1754. “It is pretty amazing standing here, knowing at this very spot the seeds of democracy […]
Pollster: Support for Obama in N.H. is Slipping
By Salena Zito MANCHESTER, N.H. The Granite State shares more than the early-voting spotlight with caucus-cousin Iowa. Its love affair with Barack Obama is in the same funk as is the Hawkeye State’s. And it all has to do with how New Hampshire voters feel about Obama’s handling of the economy, according to David Paleologos, […]
Today’s Climate Mimics the 1890s
By Salena Zito Americans are fed up. Sound familiar? Another wave is coming, Washington — and “the ‘ins’ may be thrown out, and the ‘outs’ may be thrown in,” according to Michael Genovese, Loyola University political science professor. Genovese thinks the economic and political turbulence of the past 12 years are “eerily similar” to the […]
Designed for Compromise
By Salena Zito The recent debt debate was not politics at its worst or most dysfunctional. It worked exactly as American politics was designed to work. “Our system is about posturing, fighting, dealing and eventually compromising,” said Villanova University political scientist Lara Brown. “Overall, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell did […]
Floods of Discontent
By Salena Zito ST. MICHAEL, Pa. Remarkably, the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club still stands on what once was the shore of Cambria County’s Lake Conemaugh. Built in 1881, the Victorian-style white building trimmed in cheerful red was a social center for many “robber barons” of this nation’s greatest industrial era. Club members stayed […]
Young George’s Fourth
By Salena Zito JUMONVILLE GLEN, Pa. Between this heavily wooded ravine along an Allegheny Mountains summit and the “great meadow” down the road, a young George Washington offered his only surrender in battle. The date was July 4, 1754. “It is pretty amazing standing here, knowing at this very spot the seeds of democracy were […]
Who’ll Gerrymander Next?
By Salena Zito MARBLEHEAD, Mass. — A brisk walk down Old Burial Hill, where many young Revolutionary War soldiers rest, and a right onto Orne Street lead to the most oddly shaped house imaginable. “Oh, that’s the ‘Spite House,’” explains Marblehead Historical Commission volunteer Wayne Butler. “Apparently, three brothers who lived there back in the […]
‘Rust Belt’ Battlegrounds In 2010
By Salena Zito ERIE – If you wanted to find a place on a United States map that showed the heart of the Rust Belt, this would be it. Its business of manufacturing things has seen better days. Voters here, and in sister cities from eastern Pennsylvania to the state of Indiana, likely will decide […]
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