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Life after Littlefield: Who is Brock Holt and where does he fit in Pirates’ plans?

Life after Littlefield: Who is Brock Holt and where does he fit in Pirates’ plans?

Jarrod Blumer, Contributor
September 5, 2012

Anyone who pays even the slightest bit of attention to the Pirates should get accustomed to hearing a new name, at least through the rest of the season. That new name is Brock Holt. At the beginning of the season only a few fans had probably heard of him. However, at the moment,...

Tonight’s Democratic National Convention schedule

Tonight’s Democratic National Convention schedule

Anthony Moretti
September 4, 2012

. . . as posted by the National Journal: Welcome to the first day of the Democratic National Convention, where first lady Michelle Obama and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro will give tonight’s major speeches in the Time Warner Cable Arena. The convention promises a full...

Protesters are in full throat in Charlotte

Anthony Moretti, RMU Journalism Professor
September 4, 2012

A group of perhaps 100 protesters walked into a police blockade Tuesday afternoon in Charlotte as they attempted to move toward the Time Warner Cable Arena, the site of the Democratic National Convention. The police blocked the intersection of East Stonewall Street and South...

Goodbye, Tampa . . . hello, Charlotte

Anthony Moretti, RMU Journalism Professor
August 31, 2012

By time most of you read this post, I will be somewhere between Tampa and Charlotte. Early Friday morning, four students and I leave Florida and one national political convention for North Carolina and another national political convention. Those students (plus one more who...

Life after Littlefield

Jarrod Blumer, Contributor
August 30, 2012

Hello! I’m Jarrod, and I care about the Pittsburgh Pirates more than anybody really should.  Now, when I say care, what I really mean is sitting with my face in the palms of my hands for 18 (possibly 19 depending on if the Pirates continue their end of the season free fall)...

Clint Eastwood’s address to the Republican National Convention . . .

Anthony Moretti, RMU Journalism Professor
August 30, 2012

. . . might soon be considered either one of the best or one of the worst delivered at any national political convention. Ever. So, I ask a simple question: Was it one of the best or worst ever?

The images the Republican National Committee wants you to see…

Anthony Moretti, RMU Journalism Professor
August 29, 2012

…and the images it doesn’t. As the 2012 Republican National Convention formally got underway on Tuesday, the contrast between the Republican effort to project a “we are a happy family” and the thorn that is Ron Paul and his supporters could not be ignored. Mind...

BREAKING NEWS: 2012 Republican National Convention to officially begin Tuesday

Anthony Moretti, RMU Journalism Professor
August 26, 2012

The Daily Caller reports the now planned three-day convention schedule looks like this.

“America’s comeback team”

Patrick Ryan, Assistant News Editor
August 26, 2012

On April 11, 2011, Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts came out and officially announced that he will make a second campaign towards the office of the President of the United States along with a committee that had already been compiled. “It is time that we put...