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Category Archives: Books
2023 Campaigns and Beyond – Quaker Valley School Board
Your Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while all the Company is true. – Galadriel, from The Fellowship of the Ring by … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Community, Economics, Education, Government, History, Local, Media, Personal, Politics, Public Safety, Schools, Security, Youth
Tagged Bud Smith, Edgeworth Borough, Gianni Floro, Jessica Webster, John English, Leet Township, Leetsdale Borough, Melissa Walls, Muottas, Quaker Valley GOP, Quaker Valley High School, Quaker Valley School Board, Quaker Valley School District, Sewickley Valley Historical Society, Thomas Tull, William Jasper
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Political Weather Alert
The National Windbag Service has issued a Flash Mud Warning for the greater Quaker Valley area, including Leet Township and surrounding locales. Spotters report that increased mudslinging from certain candidates for office has extended unchallenged into the local online/print media … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Community, Education, Government, History, Humor, Local, Media, Politics, Schools
Tagged Bud Smith, Carolyn Verszyla, Gianni Floro, Jessica Webster, John English, Leet Township, Martin McDaniel, Michael Molinaro, Missy Walls, Quaker Valley School Board, Quaker Valley School District, QV Strong, QV Taxpayers for Strong Schools, QVGOP, William Jasper
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Summer Shorts: School Board Double Down, Jasper’s Jabber and Jaunt
This month I’m posting some brief (for me) pieces on subjects that beg mention due to their timeliness and/or significance. Many of these topics have been fleshed out already – others don’t really need as much analysis to get a … Continue reading
Election Postscript: I’d Rather Have a Ballot in Front of Me than a Cholecystectomy
(Apologies to Dorothy Parker et al) With all of the lead-up to the May 16 primary election, I was looking forward to working that morning and coming home afterward so that Leslie and I, as is our past practice, could … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Civil Liberties, Community, Government, Health, Justice, Local, Media, Personal, Politics, Public Safety, Schools
Tagged AHN Wexford, Allegheny County, Bud Smith, Carolyn Verszyla, Corinna Garcia-Skorpenske, Donna Adipietro, Dorothy Parker, Franklin Park Borough, Geoff Bsarnes, Gianni Floro, Giuseppe Rosselli, Jessica Webster, Joe Rockey, John English, Joseph Bellissimo, Katherine Longwell, Kristie Shelton, Leet Township, Leet Township Police, Magisterial District Judge, Martin McDaniel, Matt Dugan, Melissa Walls, Michael Molinaro, Quaker Valley High School, Quaker Valley School Board, Quaker Valley School District, Robert Ford, Sara Innamorato, Stephen Zappala, Suzanne Filiaggi, Todd Hamer, William Jasper
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In Praise of Libraries – New Pathways vs. Old Attitudes
If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, you know that my family is rather enamored of our local library. The Sewickley Public Library is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year – my wife has held a library … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Community, Family, Government, History, Justice, Local, Media, Personal, Pittsburgh, Politics, Schools, Youth
Tagged American Library Association, Andrew Carnegie, Banned Books, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Carolyn Toth, Jessica Whipple, Judy Blume, Kathleen Madonna-Emmerling, Leetsdale Borough, Moms for Liberty, Moon Township, Moon Township Public Library, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Quaker Valley School Board, Quaker Valley School District, Sewickley Public Library
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Book Bans, and Other Boogeymen
As a teenager, my interest in reading ran the gamut of the literature of the time period. I was already a voracious newspaper and magazine reader – I had a student subscription to Newsweek (courtesy of my 8th grade social … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Government, History, Human Rights, Local, Media, Personal, Politics, Schools, Youth
Tagged American Library Association, Banned Books, Conservative, Critical Race Theory, First Amendment, LGBTQIA+, Quaker Valley School District, Racism, Republican Party, Sewickley Public Library
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Ambridge Book Challenge Highlights Importance of Free Expression
Happy Banned Books Week. Each year I post a link to the above page of the American Library Association‘s website to the sidebar of this blog. The website includes a comprehensive listing of challenges to books in libraries or schools across the country, … Continue reading
Things Found While Looking For Other Things 2
“Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.” In the midst of my travels across country almost a month ago, this phrase came to mind after a long day and night of driving and really not making the kind of … Continue reading
Bookstores – The Phoenix of Old Media
I was in Pittsburgh with Leslie from Sunday afternoon until Wednesday evening. We had several things to do regarding the wedding, which included applying for our marriage license. We did this on Valentine’s Day – I took her out to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Business, Local, Media, Personal, Pittsburgh
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Hiding In Plain Sight
When he’s out and about near his Denver home, former Broncos quarterback John Elway has come up with a novel way to travel incognito—he wears his own jersey. “I do that all the time here,” the 50-year-old Hall of Famer … Continue reading
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