By Monica Ruiz Editor’s Note: Monica Ruiz is Community Organizer for Casa San Jose, an organization dedicated to assisting immigrants in the Pittsburgh region and a former project of the Thomas Merton […]
2018 New Person of the Year: Monica Ruiz
Fighting for Journalistic Integrity at the Post-Gazette
By Neil Cosgrove At this moment, the journalists of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Denver Post have a lot in common. Both groups work for the only daily newspapers in their mid-size […]
Why I Am A Monthly TMC Peacemaker
(Photo Caption: Jim Ray (Photo provided by Joyce Rothermel) By Jim Ray Several years after graduating from McCormick Theological Seminary I began a career in Campus Ministry at the University of Illinois […]
School Integration
By Maggie Weaver “We conclude that the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal” — Chief Justice Earl Warren, 1954 On May 17, 1954, the […]
Caryl Conry Beal
By Lois Goldstein Think globally, act locally is a phrase that could have been written with Caryl Beal in mind. Caryl, who died on April 7, had strong beliefs that she linked […]
Block Decides to Keep Gouging P-G Journalists
By Neil Cosgrove Confronted with an unfavorable National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling that Block Communication, Inc. has violated labor law by refusing to pay a 5% increase in health insurance premiums […]
Security Firm at Odds With Values of Many in North Hills Community
By Sister Mary Traupman Trib Media, 3-28-18: “The North Allegheny School District canceled a training session scheduled for March 28 by its security consultant after a parent complained about posts the company’s […]
Pittsburgh Gender Equity Commission Announced
(Photo Caption: The Gender Equity Commissioners (Photo: pittsburghpa.gov) By Marcia Bandes I am proud and delighted to share with you the latest milestone in the execution of Pittsburgh’s CEDAW (UN Convention on the […]
Thrifty: Serving and Surviving for 25 Years
(Photo Caption: Shawna Hammond and Shirley Gleditsch (Photo: provided by Thrifty) By Neil Cosgrove The beginnings of the East End Community Thrift Store, commonly known as “Thrifty,” were indeed humble, recalls Shirley Gleditsch, […]
PNC Bank: Stop Banking the Bomb
(Photo Caption: CAPA (Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School) students organized a walk-out to protest gun violence in solidarity with Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students in Parkland, FL (Photos: ppuglobe.com) By Thomas […]
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