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Anarchy in PA

Dear President Obama, We Pittsburghers sincerely hope you enjoy your visit to our beautiful city later this week, when you'll be chairing the exciting G-20 Summit that you so thoughtfully chose our city to host without finding out whether we could ...

From BILL STEIGERWALD, Reason,  23 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Pittsburgh Didn't Volunteer for G20

As host of the G-20 summit, Pittsburgh briefly will sit in the global spotlight. With this article by longtime Pittsburgh resident and columnist Bill Steigerwald, New Geography opens a three part series looking at this intriguing metropolis from the ...

From BILL STEIGERWALD, New Geography,  22 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Nordstrom, Inc.,  U.S. Democratic Party

Bill Steigerwald: Sticking Pittsburgh With the G-20

We Pittsburghers sincerely hope you enjoy your visit to our beautiful city later this week, when you'll be chairing the exciting G-20 Summit that you so thoughtfully chose our city to host without finding out whether we could handle it or afford ...

From BILL STEIGERWALD, Town Hall,  21 Sep 2009

Bill Steigerwald: Polar Bear BS

Environmentalists and the media have successfully bamboozled half the populace and every school child in America into believing large numbers of polar bears are starving and drowning in the Arctic because of global warming. But it's obviously not even ...

From BILL STEIGERWALD, Town Hall,  17 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Natural Resources Defense Council,  Sarah Palin,  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,  Vanity Fair,  ExxonMobil

Activist, journalist sneaked through South

Lyon, Miss. - The two great men whose ghosts I was chasing stopped at this badly overgrown black cemetery in the Mississippi Delta in 1948 as part of their dangerous mission. . . . ...

From BILL STEIGERWALD, Atlanta Journal Constitution,  31 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Hodding Carter,  John Wesley,  Martin Luther King, Jr.,  Hugo Black,  John Howard

Bill Steigerwald: Cronkite and Me

Like most of my draft-dodging generation, during the 1960s I heard Walter Cronkite’s authoritative voice more often than I heard the voices of my own parents. I even ate dinner hundreds of times with the sainted TV journalist who anchored the CBS ...

From BILL STEIGERWALD, Town Hall,  27 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Walter Cronkite,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  PBS,  Fox News Channel

Bill Steigerwald: It's Time for Social Security Choice

I've hated Social Security since 1964, when I made $547 that summer as a rookie stock boy in the warehouse of a Pittsburgh restaurant chain. That's when the federal government first started swiping a portion of my paycheck under the pretense that it ...

From BILL STEIGERWALD, Town Hall,  22 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barry Goldwater, Jr.,  George W. Bush,  Barack Obama

Bill Steigerwald: Chasing Old Ghosts Through the New South

I'm not sure it's politically OK to mention this, now that we've elected President Obama and we're officially in a post-racial age. But I saw more black people in a recent four-day, 1,600-mile road trip from Atlanta to the Mississippi Delta and back ...

From BILL STEIGERWALD, Town Hall,  8 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John Howard,  U.S. Republican Party,  Hugo Black,  John Wesley

Bill Steigerwald: Good Luck on Sweeping Health Care Reform Mr. President

Saying that America's semi-private, semi-public health care system needs a complete overhaul, President Obama last week challenged Congress to send him a health care reform bill he can sign by the end of the year. The president said that a new health ...

From BILL STEIGERWALD, Town Hall,  18 May 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Harvard University,  Money Magazine

Bill Steigerwald: Arnold's Brave Call for a Pot Debate

Arnold Schwarzenegger proved last week (May 5) he's not a girly-man when it comes to the debate over whether marijuana should be legalized and taxed in California. Gov. Arnold called for a large-scale study of the consequences of legalizing pot for ...

From BILL STEIGERWALD, Town Hall,  11 May 2009
Related Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Ethan Nadelmann,  U.S. Democratic Party

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