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The emotional displacement of losing a part of your community

PITTSBURGH -- On April 19, 1926, an above-the-fold story in the Pittsburgh Gazette Times detailed the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese's Bishop Hugh Boyle officiating at the dedication of a new church and school in the city's upper-north-side neighborhood off Perrysville Avenue. "The services, which began shortly after 10:30 a.m. consisted of a procession from the old church to the new building and a solemn dedication Mass." An oversized photo of the Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church, with hundreds of people standing outside the unique church building, accompanied the story. The ...

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Now trailing, Carolina has a decision to make

Carolina trails Vegas in the Stanley Cup Final and has a big decision to make for Game 4 A sequence of events in a Stanley Cup Final that has gotten crazier by the minute has put the Carolina Hurricanes at a crossroads. They blew a two-goal lead and lost Game 1, erased a two-goal deficit ...

NBA Finals return to New York

NEW YORK — Madison Square Garden has seen just about everything in sports and entertainment, from the first Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight to the first Wrestlemania. It just hasn't seen much of the NBA Finals. The New York Knicks have brought the finals back to their home court for the ...

In politics, competence doesn’t seem to matter

Politics is the only profession of which I am aware in which competence doesn’t seem to matter. One can fail miserably; one can be corrupt and one can get away with crimes that if committed by someone outside of elective office, arrest, prosecution and a stint in jail would be the result. Yet politicians, Democrats and Republicans, continue to get re-elected. Which brings me to Tuesday’s race for mayor in Los Angeles (and could reporters please stop saying “mayoral” and “gubernatorial? Real people don’t talk that way). The incumbent mayor, Karen Bass, wants another ...

Bureaucrats in the way

Is your business "needed"? Bizarrely, in many states, if you want to start a business, you first must convince bureaucrats that your business is "needed." Four years ago, Louisiana blocked social worker Ursula Newell-Davis from helping kids with special needs. Bureaucrats said she hadn't proved her business was needed. "Why does the state of Louisiana have the right to stop me from doing what I love?" she asks in this update video. Good question. Ursula has a master's degree and a social work license. For two decades, she's helped kids with special needs. One, Kamal, told us ...