http://mckeesport.dementia.org/blog/ en-us 2007-09-18T08:09:11-05:00 http://mckeesport.dementia.org/blog/000939.html UPDATE: Join us at the new location! We should be open for business now ... www.tubecityonline.com/almanac Comments are welcome at the new site, but are closed here. If you still get the "domain name expired" page, try emptying your browser... jt3y 2007-09-18T08:09:11-05:00 http://mckeesport.dementia.org/blog/000938.html Depending on where you get your Internet service, you may or may not be able to see tubecityonline.com right now; checking one set of name servers this morning, I found the domain was alive again. But a different set... jt3y 2007-09-18T07:58:52-05:00 http://mckeesport.dementia.org/blog/000937.html Dumb-da-dumb-dumb-dumb! It helps to make sure the domain name isn't about to expire before you forward everything to it. My bad. Working on it right now. It's not easy to be this stupid, but I try harder. Update: Y'know, I... jt3y 2007-09-17T08:04:24-05:00 http://mckeesport.dementia.org/blog/000936.html At Tube City Omnimedia's World Headquarters overlooking Our Fair City, we are frantically working on a new, improved Tube City Almanac for debut ... hopefully ... on Monday. Your editor is on a very steep learning curve as I... jt3y 2007-09-14T07:49:13-05:00 http://mckeesport.dementia.org/blog/000935.html More alleged humor from the radio show. Remember, I kid because I love. And also because I'm an extremely warped, frustrated and jealous hack. Incidentally, the announcer at the end is a former WEDO disc jockey, Glenn Tryon, who went... jt3y 2007-09-12T07:26:12-05:00 http://mckeesport.dementia.org/blog/000934.html As usual, there's almost as much truth this one story from The Onion as in a week of the AP wire. (Thanks to Alert Reader Jeff for sending along the link.) Some people hate borough and township and school board... jt3y 2007-09-11T08:03:42-05:00 http://mckeesport.dementia.org/blog/000933.html Occasional Almanac contributor Officer Jim writes: As much as I hate to say this, I thought that the Trib's story on the Mon Valley was pretty good. It wasn't overly optimistic, but it didn't trash the region either. "Fair and... jt3y 2007-09-10T08:01:18-05:00 http://mckeesport.dementia.org/blog/000932.html "Inauspicious night for birth of a Nation." That's the headline on Bob Dvorchak's story in Sunday's Post-Gazette (motto: "That smudgy gray thing your grandma reads"). They're referring to the "Steeler Nation," of course. But you don't suppose that the headline... jt3y 2007-09-09T13:30:30-05:00 http://mckeesport.dementia.org/blog/000931.html The ongoing installation of new traffic lights on the west end of the Jerome Avenue Bridge will end a long-standing tradition known to anyone who learned to drive in McKeesport. I'm referring to the notorious "Port Vue Left." A... jt3y 2007-09-07T07:43:32-05:00 http://mckeesport.dementia.org/blog/000930.html Our topic today is the City of McKeesport's Home Rule Charter (PDF file), which states: No person who holds any compensated appointive City position shall make, solicit or receive any contribution to the campaign funds of any political party or... jt3y 2007-09-06T07:58:33-05:00 http://mckeesport.dementia.org/blog/000929.html When I was growing up, one of our neighbors in the Liberty Manor section of Liberty Borough had not one, but two, Edsels. (Alert Reader Tim will know who I'm talking about, I bet.) Maybe this early exposure to... jt3y 2007-09-05T07:31:37-05:00 http://mckeesport.dementia.org/blog/000928.html I came to a reluctant epiphany on I-79 last week. It's something I didn't want to admit, but in my corroded, embittered heart, I know it to be true. The Mon-Fayette Expressway has to be built. Yes, I have questioned... jt3y 2007-09-04T07:36:12-05:00 http://mckeesport.dementia.org/blog/000927.html Above: United Mine Workers Vice President Philip Murray, Allegheny County Common Pleas Court Judge Michael Musmanno, railroad fireman Clinton S. Golden and other backers of the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee lead the union’s first mass meeting from atop a... jt3y 2007-09-03T00:20:13-05:00 http://mckeesport.dementia.org/blog/000926.html I almost forgot ... the sixth-annual Renzie BBQ Cook-Off gets underway at Renziehausen Park at 11 a.m. Saturday and continues through Monday. Besides great food (including ice cream) and lots of barbecue, enjoy live music from The Kiger Band, Mahajibee... jt3y 2007-09-01T08:10:09-05:00 http://mckeesport.dementia.org/blog/000925.html 20 Years Ago This Week: On Aug. 28, 1987 --- 20 years ago this week --- the last crew of employees punched out of USX's National Works, closing the door of what had once been the largest pipe-making mill in... jt3y 2007-08-31T07:44:12-05:00