(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, […]
Thrifty: Serving and Surviving for 25 Years
East End Community Thrift Communal Poem
By Shawna Hammond We left a notebook out to be discovered by shoppers, volunteers or any visitors to the store. On the page, a poem title was suggested with the invitation for […]
LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR
(Photo Caption: High school students across Pittsburgh held demonstrations against gun violence in solidarity with students in Parkland, Florida. (Photos: WTAE) By Gabriel McMorland April 19th marks the anniversary of the deadliest domestic […]
I’ve Had Enough: An Open Letter to Representative Keith Rothfus
By Ed Brett Dear Representative Rothfus, On Valentine’s Day my wife and I received a phone call from our daughter, who is a guidance counselor at a public high school in Central […]
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 […]
Honduras: Bloodshed and Impunity Continues, Green-lighted by Trump Administration
(Photo Caption: A protestor holds up a banner demanding justice for Berta Cáceres on the 2nd anniversary of her death. (Photo: The Guardian) By Dan Beeton “It’s past time to cut security aid […]
Follow the Money
By The Raging Grannies Follow the Money, to the tune of Roll Out the Barrel, Pittsburgh Raging Grannies Key of D Follow the money/See where the candidates stand. Follow the money/Then we […]
Fridays with Rothfus
Fr. Greg Swiderski and the Pittsburgh People North of Peace gather each Friday during Lent in front of Rep. Keith Rothfus’s office in an effort to get the Congressman to endorse strict […]
Are Free Traders Channeling Chicken Little
By Jo Tavener Economic Advisor to the President resigns! A slump in the Dow hits Wall Street. Speaker of the House finally breaks his silence and criticizes Trump’s tariff proposal! All this […]
We CAN Do It
By John Hemington Every day some politician or some media talking head tells us that we can’t have the social programs or infrastructure improvements we need “because there isn’t enough money;” “the […]
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