Bill Neal: Steelers’ Hall of Honor Class of 2023 announced; and it’s game time Aug. 11
Bill Neal: Steelers’ Hall of Honor Class of 2023 announced; and it’s game time Aug. 11 […]
Bill Neal: Steelers’ Hall of Honor Class of 2023 announced; and it’s game time Aug. 11 […]
Don’t Be Scared […]
Good for them, but Black people want public servants in Congress who have the will and the skill to get legislation and appropriations passed that will help Black Americans. […]
Their comments insisting that EPA move forward quickly to cut carbon pollution from new and existing coal and natural gas-burning power plants were delivered in person in Washington by a coalition of a dozen national environment, environmental justice, and public health groups. It reportedly is the most public responses to a proposed environmental rule since President Biden took office. […]
Arms Deals Are Bad Deals […]
“The greatest danger to human civilization and the planet is the inability to believe that tomorrow can be different . . .” […]
Summer wildfires had already become a fact of life in the west in recent years, even reducing the town of Paradise, California to rubble in late 2018, its population losing everything. While some coverage has begun to improve, most major news outlets have given this new summer reality the usual breathless disaster treatment, often avoiding the root cause of these catastrophes as they have so many others from massive floods to dangerous heat waves, treating them as acts of God rather than a human-produced climate emergency. […]
China’s unpopularity with Chinese Americans, and for that matter all Asian Americans, is among the chief findings of the Pew Research poll above. All other Asian Americans have favorable opinions of their home country—that is, 50 percent or above. Not surprisingly, only 2 percent of Taiwanese Americans regard China favorably. […]
This warped vision became particularly apparent during the Russian government’s military invasion, occupation, and annexation of Ukraine, when major organizations on the anti-American Left, although supposedly antiwar and anti-imperialist, focused their criticism solely on the U.S. government, NATO, and Ukraine. […]
Perhaps the disadvantaging of U.S. workers is no more readily apparent than in policies setting the minimum wage. Unlike 80 other countries that mandate an annual review of a national minimum wage, the U.S. requires no such review, and Congress has failed to raise the hourly wage from $7.25 since 2014, and failed as well to raise the tipped minimum wage (from $2.13) since 1991. Many states and localities have set their minimum wage above the national standard, from $8.75 per hour in West Virginia to $16.50 in the District of Columbia. […]
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