Today in Pittsburgh, we celebrate Roberto Clemente Day.  Forty-eight years ago Clemente, 38, died on New Year’s Eve while on a humanitarian and political mission to Nicaragua to ensure that post-earthquake aid wasn’t being stolen by the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship.  Growing up playing baseball in Pittsburgh,

PITTSBURGH, PA. - For more than 15 years, I have covered Randi Weingarten, the president of the 1.7 million member American Federation of Teachers union, but I have never seen her as excited as when she got the news that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a social studies teacher and

Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh, where we are still searching for a part-time Greider Fellow for Labor Reporting.  Payday Changing Email Providers  Good news, our switch to the new Ghost platform is complete and the site looks way slicker. (Check it out here) Now, we are switching to a new

Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh, where Payday has been tracking a key national story on why Kamala Harris reversed her position on having a fracking ban.  We have a big newsletter today on how right-wing construction union leaders in Western PA likely played a big role in this, and much