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• Single-payer fight comes to Pittsburgh

  Activists and legislators pushing bills to institute universal, single-payer health care (aka Medicare for all), gathered for a news conference Saturday morning at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center before pressing their case to the Democratic National Committee's Platform Committee, meeting in the building to finalize the party's statement of [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2008, 7:28pm EDT
  

• Endorsements: Pennsylvania Democratic Primary, April 22

  Barack Obama - President
  Rob McCord - State Treasurer
  Mike Waltner - U.S. House PA3
  Beth Hafer - U.S. House PA18
  Brenda Frazier - PA House 21
  John Paul Jones - PA House 27 [...]
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  Posted: March 30, 2008, 3:55pm EDT
  

• 18th Congressional District Candidates's Forum

  Democrats' optimism as we enter 2008 shows in the field of five candidates vying to represent the party in a bid to unseat three-term GOP Congressman Tim Murphy of Upper St. Clair. It also illustrates Murphy's perceived vulnerability after allegations of ethical lapses and questionable spending and six [...]
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  Posted: January 19, 2008, 3:18pm EST
  

• Tim Murphy locks out his constituents

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  Posted: August 10, 2007, 2:24pm EDT
  by lou

• 2008 is here!

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  There's no surer sign that the next federal campaign season has begun than to spot Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean in Pittsburgh. Dean's August 1 fundraiser at Church Brew Works was less crowded and the atmosphere less electric than its predecessor two years ago, hopefully not a [...]
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  Posted: August 07, 2007, 10:13am EDT
  by lou

• (Belated) Primary roundup, Part 3: Judicial Races--wtf?

  I'm having a lot of trouble making sense of the results in the statewide judicial races. Roughly a quarter of the votes statewide on Election Day came from Philadelphia, which was holding a hotly contested mayoral primary. This resulted in just one Philly candidate being nominated for any of the' [...]
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  Posted: June 07, 2007, 11:59am EDT
  by lou

• (Belated) Primary roundup, Part 2: No County Shakeup

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  While the political waters were roiled in the City of Pittsburgh, things were quiet at the county level as the primary results rolled in.
  
  County Executive Dan Onorato cruised to victory over longshot challenger Rick Swartz, who failed to meet even the most tempered expectations in the Dem [...]
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  Posted: June 07, 2007, 11:14am EDT
  by lou

• Primary roundup, part 1: A New Day for Pittsburgh

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  While the average Pittsburgher was loath to entertain the idea of a fourth mayor in four years--resulting in accidental Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's unopposed Democratic nomination to serve the next two--voters in three City Council districts turned to hotly contested races for those seats to inject some new blood into city' [...]
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  Posted: May 16, 2007, 10:41pm EDT
  by lou

• Primary preview: City races

  This post is the third in a series previewing state and local races in the May 15 primary. I am proud to be supporting the Youth Slate of candidates endorsed by the PA League of Young Voters PAC. To find out more about all the candidates, check out the [...]
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  Posted: May 02, 2007, 9:04pm EDT
  by lou

• Primary preview: County races

  This post is the second in a series previewing state and local races in the May 15 primary. I am proud to be supporting the Youth Slate of candidates endorsed by the PA League of Young Voters PAC. To find out more about all the candidates, check out the [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2007, 10:26pm EDT
  by lou

• Primary preview: Judicial races

  This post is the first in a series previewing state and local races in the May 15 primary. I am proud to be supporting the Youth Slate of candidates endorsed by the PA League of Young Voters PAC. To find out more about all the candidates, check out the [...]
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  Posted: April 19, 2007, 10:56pm EDT
  by lou

• Gravel: Unknown legend

  With the U.S. mired in Iraq and Democrats searching for a way out, surely the person arguably more responsible than any other in Congress for extricating our nation from the similar quagmire in Vietnam could make a considerable contribution to the intra-party debate as we move toward 2008.
  
  You [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2007, 10:04pm EDT
  by lou

• Edwards for President

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  If for any reason you are a regular visitor to this blog (I apologize for the serious lack of posts lately) you may notice that a "John Edwards '08" badge has replaced the "Draft Gore" badge on my sidebar. If those two do end up in the race together it's [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2007, 11:36pm EDT
  by lou

• Out of Control

  It appears that May's pop-election for Pittsburgh mayor will be a surprisingly conventional head-to-head slugfest between incumbent Luke Ravenstahl and City Councilman Bill Peduto if for no other reason than that everyone else has elected to pursue the lower-hanging fruit of the City Controller's post.
  
  (By the [...]
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  Posted: January 29, 2007, 9:14pm EST
  by lou

• Taking a gamble by playing it safe

  And so it was handed down from Harrisburg that Pittsburgh's new slot machine casino will not be found in already-bustling Station Square nor be the key, along with attendant hockey arena, to the decades-past-due redevelopment of the Lower Hill District.
  
  Instead, the state Gaming Control Board made the surprise [...]
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  Posted: December 20, 2006, 1:10pm EST
  by lou

• "I draw energy from discussing ideas"

  A lengthy article on Al Gore from New York magazine touches on (among many other things) the reasons why Gore could be the presidential nominee Democrats need in 2008. In short, the man is a casualty of the failed strategy of abandoning Democratic principles in favor of the consultancy [...]
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  Posted: May 22, 2006, 8:18pm EDT
  by lou

• Is nothing sacred?

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  The shocking news came today that the owners of Latrobe Brewing Co.--makers of our region's storied Rolling Rock beer--will sell the brand to Anheuser-Busch, who in turn will move brewing operations to Newark, New Jersey. Not only does this strip our region of one of its most identifiable product associations, [...]
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  Posted: May 19, 2006, 12:07pm EDT
  by lou

• 'Freedom fries' founder now opposes war

  Conservative North Carolina Congressman Walter Jones--who brought Iraq war fervor to the U.S. House cafeteria by renaming dishes to reflect his disdain for French opposition to the war--now says he regrets supporting the invasion and questions the Bush administration's motives and truthfulness with Congress and the American people. He [...]
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  Posted: May 19, 2005, 12:01pm EDT
  by lou

• Discredited

  President Bush signed the credit card company welfare bill into law Wednesday, making it harder for working families--many uninsured and saddled with unexpected medical bills--to get out of debt. Here's the unbelieveably large list of Democratic senators who for some reason voted for this: Baucus, Bayh, Biden, Bingaman, [...]
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  Posted: April 22, 2005, 11:11am EDT
  by lou