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In Defense of the City of Pittsburgh

1 month ago | realclearpennsylvania.com | Christopher Briem

What is the state of the City of Pittsburgh? The question is debated even more than usual these days, probably because 2025 will see multiple municipal elections across Pennsylvania. And what people believe about Pittsburgh is subject to the same information distortions that color our national politics. It’s not uncommon, for example, to hear laments about the city’s persistent population and employment losses.
The Last Battle for Pittsburgh Steel

Jan 8, 2025 | realclearpennsylvania.com | Oliver Bateman

Pittsburgh's relationship with decline is complicated. The city lost half its population after the steel industry collapsed in the 1970s and 1980s, yet has clung to relevance as a mini-hub for medicine, robotics, and artificial intelligence. Now, 70 years after scores of regional steelworkers quite literally fought the Japanese in World War II, Japan's Nippon Steel offered $14.9 billion to save what’s left of U.S. Steel.
Fetterman: He'll Work with McCormick For a Better PA

Jan 5, 2025 | realclearpennsylvania.com | John Cole

Fetterman: He'll Work with McCormick For a Better PA John Cole Pennsylvania Capital-Star January 6, 2025
The Election Was a Referendum on Elitism

Nov 25, 2024 | realclearpennsylvania.com | Joe D’Orsie

The Election Was a Referendum on Elitism The Republican sweep in the national elections this November is a reaction to a brand of leftist elitism that became so distasteful to most Americans that they carried their angst with them into the v Read Full Article »
How McCormick Won Pennsylvania’s Senate Race

Nov 24, 2024 | realclearpennsylvania.com | Salena Zito

How McCormick Won Pennsylvania’s Senate Race Salena Zito Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government November 25, 2024
Democracy Dies in Daylight as Dems Break the Law to Help Casey

Nov 18, 2024 | realclearpennsylvania.com | Kyle Sammin

Democracy Dies in Daylight as Dems Break the Law to Help Casey The Washington Post has been telling us for eight years now that Democracy Dies in Darkness. Anyone who watched the proceedings in Bucks County this week knows that’s not true. It dies in broad daylight. As we all know by now, Republican Dave McCormick came out on top in the […] Read Full Article »
Casey Chases Windmills and Ballots as McCormick Settles In

Nov 13, 2024 | realclearpennsylvania.com | Salena Zito

Casey Chases Windmills and Ballots as McCormick Settles InIncumbent Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA) is demanding a recount in his loss to Republican challenger Dave McCormick. But the votes aren't there for Casey
Casey Won’t Admit Defeat, But Here’s Why He Lost

Nov 12, 2024 | realclearpennsylvania.com | Oliver Bateman

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey's final days in office read like a cautionary tale about the dangers of political evolution. His inbox overflows with increasingly desperate fundraising pleas – "Some bad news," "More bad news," "To avoid catastrophe" – while his campaign has embraced an unlikely role: election truther. The three-term senator now spams supporters daily, begging for $5 contributions to fund recounts against Republican Dave McCormick, whose narrow victory most media outlets have already confirmed.
Even Shapiro Couldn’t Have Saved PA for the Democrats

Nov 7, 2024 | realclearpennsylvania.com | Oliver Bateman

Elections often tell you less about the winners than the losers. Victory has many fathers, as the saying goes, but defeat shows you exactly what went wrong. Pennsylvania's 2024 results offer a master class in Democratic collapse: while Trump edged out Kamala Harris by 2 points in the presidential race, Republicans romped to victory in every down-ballot statewide contest.
The State Without Qualities

Nov 1, 2024 | realclearpennsylvania.com | Matthew Gasda

It’s difficult to conjure a Pennsylvanian in the mind’s eye, to extract a cultural essence. Pennsylvania is a cipher. It is not appreciably part of a region – not the northeast, not the Chesapeake, not the Midwest, not the Rust Belt; for geographic reasons, it includes cultural and historical elements of all of these regions, and yet, historically, Pennsylvania is an important (the Keystone State), even central.