"There's a lot of excitement on the floor,” says Caleb Michalski. "Strikes are hard, but I think people have really seen how Volkswagen has shown their true colors, and they are upset."

AFGE urged Democrats to cave on the shutdown while other union leaders told them to resist.

My story about the mixed feelings in our Jewish community here in Pittsburgh about Bari Weiss and her misuse of the Tree of Life Massacre to attack Palestinians has gone viral.

This week, Bari Weiss, the controversial new right-wing head of CBS News, crossed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line to participate in a front-page puff piece that painted her as a scrappy “Pittsburgh girl,”