West Mifflin Area School District

August 1, 2016 by

Brexit Equals Severe Storms in English Channel, Irish Sea

Blimey! What a cock-up! That is what you might say in London vernacular about the mess that Britain is dealing with as it struggles to leave the European Union by March 29, 2019. With the deadline in clear line of sight, there is no exit plan and Britain is becoming — depending on whom in […]

Hurricanes Could Blow In a Carbon Tax

Llewellyn King

There are no solutions to complex problems — except when the problem becomes so complex it must have a simple solution. That is the paradox thrown up by global warming and the shattering report of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The report cries out for dramatic, simple remediation of the amount of carbon […]

Postcards from Chicago: America’s Second City in Poetry and Paint

Linda Gasparello

Long before my first trip to Chicago by plane, I traveled there by poetry and stories. Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago” took me to the city as a teenager. The poem’s opening verse added to the foundational image of the city which my father, a Boston-based meat broker, built with his stories about the Chicago meatpacking industry: […]

Do You Want a Faceless Algorithm Deciding What You Read?

Llewellyn King

Old friends from The Washington Post in the 1970s write to me, agonizing over where journalism is headed. There is no shortage of news or need for news, but there is a desperate need to find new platforms to carry it forward. There are three existential crises facing the news trade: —How to finance newspapers. […]