Mar 4, 2023 | Pennsylvania, Salon.com
Twelve-year-old Todd Domboski was intrigued by the thin wisps of smoke. They seemed to coil out of the ground from a grassy patch near a tree by his house in the rural town of Centralia, Pennsylvania. Domboski wandered over to investigate — and without warning, the ground gave way beneath his feet....
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Feb 22, 2022 | Pennsylvania, Salon.com
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It sounds like the premise of an unoriginal horror film: Human beings meddle with the environment to satisfy their own greed, and accidentally unleash a scourge of disgusting bloodsucking arachnids. Those bugs, once benign, now carry a rare and frequently fatal virus....
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Feb 8, 2021 | Pennsylvania, Salon.com
It was very, very chilly in my corner of Pennsylvania the morning of last fall’s election. I live in Northampton County, a swing county in this very large swing state, a county so reflective of America as a whole that it has picked the president on all but three occasions since 1920....
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Sep 5, 2020 | Pennsylvania, Salon.com
During a protest organized by Make the Road Pennsylvania outside the Berks County Services Building in Reading, PA Tuesday afternoon September 1, 2020 to call for Gov. Wolf and the State Legislature to extend the eviction moratorium in Pennsylvania indefinitely. The group is concerned about the risk of eviction to people affected by the economic downturn resulting from the ongoing COVID-19 / Coronavirus pandemic....
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Jul 21, 2020 | Pennsylvania, Salon.com
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Many Pennsylvanians are outraged after learning that a man seemingly impersonating Dr. Rachel Levine — the state’s Secretary of Health and one of the few openly transgender government officials in the United States — participated in a transphobic dunk tank event at the Fireman’s Relief Carnival in the Bloomsburg Fair in eastern Pennsylvania on Saturday....
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Apr 17, 2016 | Democrats, Elections, Pennsylvania, Political Parties
Published: The Good Men Project (April 16, 2016) If you're a liberal Democrat and want cause to hope, take a look at the Pennsylvania Senate race right now. Even as the Democratic Party establishment frustrates progressives with its tendency to support bland moderates...
Oct 1, 2015 | Elections, Elections - Other, Pennsylvania
Published: Network (October 1, 2015) Though the 2016 presidential field gets most attention, Pennsylvania voters should elect well-qualified Democratic nominees Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty, and David Wecht to Pennsylvania’s highest court this November to block...
Apr 9, 2015 | Conservativism, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Pennsylvania, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Religion and Religious Issues, Republicans, Salon.com
Published: Salon (April 9, 2015) How the former GOP heavyweight became a political irrelevancy 2016 is heating up. Indiana's anti-gay law dominates the headlines. And nobody is paying attention to poor ol' Rick As Americans brace themselves for Rand Paul’s...
Jun 16, 2014 | Autobiographical, Elections, Elections - Other, Pennsylvania
Published: The Morning Call (June 16, 2014) After more than two years as a political columnist for PolicyMic and other publications, I made the decision last month to undertake a career hiatus and work as the Northampton County field organizer for Tom Wolf's...
Mar 31, 2014 | Centrism, Health Care Reform, Liberalism, Pennsylvania, Political Ideologies
Published: mic (March 31, 2014) The Obamacare deadline is Monday, and a flurry of reports, headlines and talking heads are weighing in its success or failure. But sometimes politics cannot be understood without a human touch. One of the most devastating aspects of the...