Community Colleges and Trade Schools Are Largely Void of Israel-Hamas Protests
TV host Mike Rowe said that eight years ago, he was switching the news channels on his television and saw several college students setting fire to the American flag...
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What the ‘Great Trucking Recession’ Is Warning Us About the Economy
JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania — Two months ago, 30,000 truckers at Yellow lost their jobs when one of the nation’s oldest and largest trucking companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection....
Is Abortion the Reason Democrats Are Heavily Investing in the Mississippi Governor’s Race?
National Democrats, flush with cash and looking for a narrative showing their party can retake the South from a near 20-year Republican dominance, are pulling out all the stops...
Mike Rowe’s Intentionally Unintentional Intentional Purpose-driven Life
Mike Rowe has had one heck of a year, and it isn’t even over yet. Rowe, best known for hosting the Discovery Channel’s long-running “Dirty Jobs,” is also involved...
The Political and Economic Impact of a UAW Strike
On Friday, the United Auto Workers said over 97% of their 150,000 members who work for Detroit Three automakers gave union leaders their approval to call a strike if...
Biden’s Pattern of Behavior Lacks the Empathy He Promised
On Sunday, after spending several hours on Rehoboth Beach in Delaware, President Joe Biden was asked by a member of the press pool about the rising death toll in...
The Fall of a Great American City
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — It’s 10:30 a.m. on a Thursday morning and a homeless man is curled up against the decorative angled brick below the archways of the large pane...
Economic Uncertainty Mounts as a Major Freight Carrier Heads to Bankruptcy
OVERLAND PARK, Kansas — Yellow Freight, one of the oldest trucking companies in America, located here in this Johnson County city, hit the end of the road Friday when...
Biden’s Failure Record With Broadband Goes Back to the ‘Stimulus’ of 2009
WATTSBURG, Pennsylvania — In July of 2009, Joe Biden, then the vice president of the United States, came to this Erie County town to discuss the federal stimulus monies...
The General Store That Cultivated a Community One Friday at a Time
LANSING, North Carolina — Nestled in the rolling farmland in Ashe County is a tidy white-clad building whose wistful charm beckons you to stop. It’s the kind of place...
Main Street Republicans Laser-focused on Kitchen Table Issues for 2024
MONONGAHELA, PENNSYLVANIA — Last September, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., told then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., that if Republicans were going to be successful in gaining the majority in...
GOP Voters Weary of Trump’s ‘Airing of the Grievances’
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pennsylvania — Alex Anastasio voted for Donald Trump for president twice, attended Trump rallies, organized events for him and placed signs in front of her home. And...
Democrats Abandon the Blue-collar Worker in Favor of ‘Social Justice’ Warriors
CHESWICK, Pennsylvania — Up until two years ago, it would only take 12 hours for coal mined deep in a labyrinth operation 60 miles from here to go from...
Mike Rowe Is on a Mission to Reverse the ‘Unspeakable Stupidity’ of Devaluing Work
A few months ago, Mike Rowe stumbled upon a 2011 video of himself speaking in front of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee during the Obama administration about...
Stories That Inspire Always Begin With an Everyman Never Giving Up
This past Saturday, Michael Block, golf’s 46-year-old everyman, was playing shoulder-to-shoulder with the world’s top players at the PGA Championship in New York state. Against all odds, he was...