‘It is disgraceful’: Residents of Western Pa. demand Democratic senator be seated
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
Posted Jan 07, 2021
Allegheny County resident Sarah Stulga called it disgraceful that Senate Republicans chose to leave open the Senate seat in the district where she lives, leaving her unrepresented in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jan. 7, 2021
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Allegheny County resident Sarah Stulga doesn’t like being left without representation in the state Senate in a pandemic because of what she views as a “political charade” by the chamber’s Republicans to not seat a 45th District senator .
“We reached a milestone of over a thousand deaths in Allegheny County this week from COVID, and this is what is going on in Harrisburg?” she said. “There is no one in the Senate to work on my behalf. It is disgraceful.”
View of downtown Spokane circa 1911.
Though it may be hard to imagine today, Spokane was once a hotbed of labor radicalism. And for a month November of 1909 all eyes of the nation were trained on the city for outlawing speaking in public. Hundreds of men and women who came to the city to challenge the seemingly un-American policy were thrown in jail. Well before 1909, the West had ceased being the land of opportunity advertised in railroad circulars; the fertile farmland and hillsides filled with gold had long since been locked up by big business. The thousands of immigrants, then, were left to working whatever wages were available. Thus the tension between labor and capital a tension as old as the idea of private ownership came out West.