This is the second of a three-part series on “The New Class of Senior Citizen Activists,” underwritten with a grant from Social Security Works. Check out part 1 here and part 3 here. It was primary election night in Pittsburgh last May, and my high school classmate, Summer Lee, was

Jon “Bowzer” Bauman was a household name in the 1970s and 1980s as the leader of the band Sha Na Na. However, he’s not very well known to a generation of Americans under 45.  Bowzer both starred in Grease in the band at the school dance, and performed the

Greetings from the Burgh, where I have begun fostering a Puerto Rican street dog from the group “Save a Friend Puerto Rico”. The group collects stray dogs in Puerto Rico, where there is a massive problem with strays, and flies them up to Pittsburgh to find homes. (Check them out

Britain’s Largest Container Port Felixstowe Port to Strike  Dock workers at the Port of Felixstowe along Britain’s east coast are set to go on an eight-day strike later this August after negotiations between their union and the port owner fell through.  The Unite union, which represents 1,900