Last week, touring sites with the European company planning to come here, when in the Pittsburgh area we drove by a large coal fired power plant that shut down two years ago. Based on the size, it was probably a 2,000-megawatt facility. A megawatt is 1 million watts of power. This plant could ...

Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas — home, at the time, to 250,000 enslaved Black people — and announced that the Civil War was over, slavery had ended, and Black people ...

I took a little ride out to Barkcamp State Park this past week. The trip was for work, not for pleasure — but I have found it is almost always a pleasure to visit this gem tucked away in the hills of Belmont County. I went to the park on Thursday to take some photographs. They were to ...

Last weekend Lynnda and I were at a conference. Joe Freedy from Pittsburgh was the keynote speaker. In college Joe was a quarterback and played against people like Ben Roethlisberger. As a freshman, he was fourth string. He wasn’t worried about playing. He was just happy to be there. Their ...

Five years might seem like a long time to some. But in my world — higher education and career preparation — the past five years have passed in a flash. For much of that time, America’s colleges and universities were racing to respond to three daunting threats: the Covid pandemic, an ...

The end of the U.S. Supreme Court’s annual term typically comes at the beginning of summer and is always an active time. During the last week or two, decisions come down related to fundamental issues including our rights, economy, and government on a near-daily basis. Some cheer and some ...