Author: John L. Micek
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Bush-Appointed Judge Credits Roberts for Standing Up to Trump
HARRISBURG, Pa. – John E. Jones III doesn’t look or sound much like a rebel. Like a lot of federal judges, he’s given to sober suits, long pauses, and thoughtful and deliberative sentences. But Jones, a judge of the Middle District of Pennsylvani…
Categories: Columns
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A Break from the Political Grind, One Album at a Time
A friend who works in campaigns recently joked that there ought to be a mandatory, two-week respite from any kind of political talk immediately after Election Day. Fighting a bad cold and exhausted from what had turned out to be 20 days straight of …
Categories: Columns
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You Didn’t Lose the Amazon Lottery. You Dodged a Bullet.
So what do Crystal City, Va., and Long Island City, N.Y., have that your city or state doesn’t? Well, everything, as it turns out. Or at least enough to beat 18 other finalists to land Amazon’s so-called “HQ2,” an economic development prize so hu…
Categories: Columns
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Spending My Childhood With Stan Lee
On Sunday afternoons in the late 1970s and early 1980s, long after 11 a.m. mass had finished, my cousin and I would head down the street to a little convenience store, hard against the Berlin Turnpike, that sold milk, bread, snacks, sundries, and, most…
Categories: Columns
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In One Pennsylvania City, a Street Street Fight for Every Vote
READING, Pa. – Paula Hass, as one former American president so often says, is fired up and ready to go. Standing in her doorway on a rainy and chilly Saturday, Hass, a registered Democrat, says she “always votes.” “I’ve voted all my life,” she s…
Categories: Columns
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Control of the House Runs Through Pennsylvania
ERIE, Pa. – It’s a Wednesday night in October, three weeks before Election Day, and Mike Kelly is onstage at the Erie Insurance Coliseum, home of the Ontario Hockey League’s Erie Otters, where he finds himself playing a familiar role. Salesman. T…
Categories: Columns
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Trump Goes Full Trump in Yet Another Pennsylvania Rally
ERIE, PA – With his second U.S. Supreme Court confirmation in the bag, President Donald Trump took a victory lap around this city by the lake on Wednesday night, skewering “radical” Capitol Hill Democrats and the “dishonest” media, even as he exhorted …
Categories: Columns
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‘Self-Made’ Trump was a Millionaire in Elementary School
Back in October 2016, when she was asked to explain how it was that then-candidate Donald Trump managed to overcome his fantastic wealth and connect with lunch-pail voters in Rust Belt America, Vanity Fair contributing editor Fran Lebowitz came up with…
Categories: Columns
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Kavanaugh Wasn’t On Trial. He Was interviewing To Work For Us
. Remember that time you got due process in a job interview? Me neither. Time and again last week, as the excruciating drama surrounding the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh unfolded before the Senate Judiciary Committee, …
Categories: Columns
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Trump Jr. Rallies the MAGA Faithful in Pa.
HERSHEY, Pa. – Donald Trump Jr. had a pretty simple message for the Republican faithful who filled a hotel ballroom here on the final night of summer 2018. “We need to get the MAGA [Make America Great Again] voter out,” the younger Trump told Pennsy…
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