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PA Books: “Pittsburgh Drinks”
Pittsburgh’s drinking culture is a story of its people: vibrant, hardworking and innovative. During Prohibition, the Hill District became a center of jazz, speakeasies and creative cocktails. In the following decades, a group of Cuban bartenders brought the nightlife of Havana to a robust café culture along Diamond Street. Disco clubs gripped the city in […]
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JOB TITLE: Director of Marketing and Brand Development DEPARTMENT: Marketing STATUS: Exempt REPORTS TO: Sr. Vice President and COO GENERAL FUNCTION: Work with the COO to flesh out the overall company marketing strategy from development to execution consistent with the company mission. Oversee all company marketing efforts including advertising and promotion of programs, products, services, and […]
PA Books: Silk Stockings & Socialism
The 1920s Jazz Age is remembered for flappers and speakeasies, not for the success of a declining labor movement. A more complex story was unfolding among the young women and men in the hosiery mills of Kensington, the working-class heart of Philadelphia. Their product was silk stockings, the iconic fashion item of the flapper culture […]
PA Supreme Court Session from June 7
Recorded 6-7-17 in Harrisburg. Topics include: Zoning ordinances and whether the application to construct 11 duplexes was properly denied, three Right-to-Know Law cases: whether contributors to a city’s legal defense fund are public records, whether unredacted appendices to a report on the Attorney General’s emails on state computers are public records and whether rates paid […]
Journalists Roundtable: June 8, 2017
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted on a pensions bill on Sunday night that establishes a 401k-style pension plan for new state, military and public school employees and two hybrid defined benefit/defined contribution plans. There are just over three weeks until the June 30 budget deadline, but there is no bill on consolidating four health-related agencies. The budget is also contingent on new gambling revenue being approved. That bill is in the House awaiting approval of Senate amendments. The pension bill is expected to receive final passage in the House on Thursday. This week’s guests are John Micek, Editorial & Opinions Page Editor with PennLive and The Patriot-News; and Chris Comisac, Bureau Chief with Capitolwire.com. Our host is Francine Schertzer.
PCN Tours: Asher’s Chocolates
This candy-maker says they understand that one of life’s sweetest pleasures is a simple box of chocolates. The original family recipe sprang from the mind of Chester Asher, a Scottish farm boy from Canada. Asher’s has added chocolate to familiar snacks like pretzels, cashews, almonds, graham crackers – even potato chips. They say they have […]
PA Books: “Embattled Freedom”
Rural Northeastern Pennsylvania was a bucolic farming region in the 1800s—but political tensions churned below the surface. When a group of fugitive slaves dared to settle in the Underground Railroad village of Waverly, near Scranton, before the Civil War, they encountered a mix of support from abolitionists and animosity from white supremacists. Once the war […]
PA Books: “Sesqui!: Greed, Graft, and the Forgotten World’s Fair of 1926”
In 1916, department store magnate and Grand Old Philadelphian John Wanamaker launched plans for a Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition in his hometown in 1926. It would be a magnificent world’s fair to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Wanamaker hoped that the “Sesqui” would also transform sooty, industrial Philadelphia into a beautiful Beaux-Arts […]
Journalists Roundtable: May 25, 2017
The House and Senate were in session three days this week in advance of Memorial Day weekend. A number of bills are moving with just about five weeks until the June 30 state budget deadline. Legislation fixing the local share provision of the gaming law neared passage. That bill also expands gambling to fantasy sports, gambling tablets in airports and establishes an iLottery, where lottery tickets can be purchased online. Also, a bill that would move Pennsylvania toward compliance with the federal REAL ID law passed the Senate. A public employee pension bill is advancing and may come up for a vote in the first week of June. This week’s guests are Steve Esack from the Allentown Morning Call; Charlie Thompson from PennLive and the Patriot-News; and R.B. Swift, with Capitolwire.com. Our host is Brian Lockman.
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