There are over a dozen Kathy Barnette for Senate signs attached to Doug Mastriano for Governor signs attached to Teddy Daniels for Lt. Governor signs along the roadside just outside the fairgrounds here in Westmoreland County.
Author: Salena Zito, Washington Examiner
The Anatomy of a Wave Election
CARLISLE, Pennsylvania – It was called the political storm of the century. It would end with the largest single turnover of power in American history – and one for the ages.
When Politics Replaces Heroes
PITTSBURGH – Just moments after the press reported there had been no fatalities in the collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge, the tragic event instantly turned into a political spectacle.
Philly’s Crime Wave Could Affect Midterms in PA
PHILADELPHIA – It’s been four weeks since former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter admonished the city’s district attorney Larry Krasner in an editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer for his dismissal of the city’s crime wave, calling his offhand remar…
Major League Baseball’s C-Suite Cowardice
Last April, when Major League Baseball pulled the All-Star Game out of suburban Atlanta, sending what it thought was a strident example of the powerful corporate punishment every state would face if Republican lawmakers passed laws it did not like, it…
Special Elections Show How Parties Have Changed
The PA Town That Refused to Be Canceled
LOWER ALLEN TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania – Sometimes, a community’s relationship with its culture and its people is so strong it can withstand anything that tries to break it apart. Such durability is a testimony to the sense of what Americans have within t…
Where the Wave Begins
MIDLAND, Pennsylvania – For as much cash and strategy as partisans put into creating a wave for their own parties, they always seem to miss where the ripple starts and why.