Looking back at PA from a distance

[blue neen]

2. It really is a shame about New Ken.

There's not really anything viable there anymore. Citizens General Hospital, a large employer, closed. There isn't much left of the industrial park down by the river.

New Kensington had a great downtown. Remember Hart's? That's where I got my first credit card, and where I bought my wedding gown!

There are many small cities that declined like this, not just in PA, but in the "Rust Belt" in general. McKeesport, Monesson, in PA. Warren, Youngstown in OH.

There are more Democrats than Republicans in Pennsylvania, but the GOP has very successfully gerrymandered it so that they are in charge of the legislature. They really need to watch their step, though, because they have blindly followed a very, very unpopular Republican Governor Corbett.

All of the local newspapers, with the exception of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, have been taken over by Richard Mellon Scaife. These papers are filled with Republican bordering on Libertarian propaganda every single day. Since the population in western PA is older, many people still rely on newspapers for
their daily news...what they get is not even close to news. It's extremely slanted bullshit.

You're right. Someone like Bill Scranton would be considered a RINO!

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