NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE – “‘O Sole Mio” cries out the crowd that fills the cavernous banquet hall in suburban Delaware. Nicola DiRito, a 90-year-old Italian Resistance fighter, immigrated to the United States following World War II. Today, he stands next to his wife of 61 years, Anna, whom he affectionately calls

Greetings from these folks tugSouth Hills of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Payday Senior Labor Reporter is currently stranded as a result of the unforeseen difficulties in finally completing the sale of our Southern labor reporting mobile “The Judge Hanson.” By sheer luck of accident, Payday Report got stranded in my native

PITTSBURGH, PA.— Republican Tim Murphy resigned today from the U.S. House after allegations emerged that the long-term anti-abortion congressman had asked a mistress to have an abortion. His departure sets up a national showdown in a Western Pennsylvania swing district, where the number of Democrats outnumber Republicans. Organized labor

Tuesday night, 36-year-old Birmingham school board member Randall Woodfin defeated 63-year-old incumbent Birmingham Mayor William Bell with 59 percent of the vote to Bell’s 41. Bell has been a fixture in city politics for decades, having been elected to City Council in 1979, two years before Woodfin was even