Greetings from the Burgh, where I’m getting ready to leave to cover the election in Brasil in a week. I’ve been hustling to fundraise to replace a broken iPhone and cover other travel costs before heading out on Sunday.  $600 Needed to Hire Freelance Local Reporters in Brasil

Folks,  Greetings from Burgh, where I’m back to work after spending the weekend at the excellent 12th Annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival. The event was put on by the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, which hosts headline cultural events throughout the year. (Check out their full listings here.

THE RUN, PITTSBURGH – Yesterday, Barb Warwick, a 45-year-old working mother of four and progressive activist, won the Democratic nomination for City Council, most likely assuring her win in the special election come November.  Warwick’s victory is part of a growing progressive insurgency in Pittsburgh that, in recent

Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh, where we have been busily working the phones with union sources to track the latest developments in the potential strike of 90,000 railroad workers.  To find out more, read my latest piece in The American Prospect.  5,000 Machinists Vote Down Railroad’s Latest