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WPXI reporter Amy Marcinkiewicz spent 26 years covering the news in Butler County telling stories, meeting people and entering their homes, on the air and in person.
The job required her to be impartial and open, to help her connect with those in the community she reported on.
She believes those skills will serve her well if she is successful in the next chapter of her life.
Marcinkiewicz, 52, retired from WPXI on Monday.
On Tuesday, she announced a bid for magisterial district judge in Evans City, Butler County. The seat, which covers 12 communities, is held by Wayne Seibel, who is retiring after 17 years. In Pennsylvania, magistrate judges are not required to have a law degree.
Used with permission of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Charles “Teenie” Harris Archive
George Barbour was KDKA radio’s first Black news reporter.
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When protesters seeking voting rights for Black Americans made the 54-mile trek from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965, a Pittsburgh reporter was there.
It didn’t matter to KDKA radio newsman George Barbour that his boss considered it too dangerous for a news outlet to send a Black reporter to the Deep South to cover a racially charged story. He was determined to go. And he talked KDKA into it.
But, Pennsylvania Department of State voter registration data indicates Trump s defeat has less to do with a grand conspiracy of Democrats and more to do with a party that simply didn’t want to re-elect the president.
About half of the county’s 304 voting precincts saw overall turnout rates of about 82% in the election.
Most precincts in Lower Bucks towns reported some of the lowest turnouts, between about 65% to 75%.
Of all 488,009 voters currently registered in Bucks County as of Dec. 7, only 2,000 more Democrats voted in the Nov. 3 election than did Republicans.
Just over a dozen of the county’s 54 municipalities saw more Republicans voting than Democrats, and the majority of precincts saw the same trend.