Salena Zito is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and a Trib editorial page columnist.
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Salena Zito Reporting
- Minority Leader Pelosi’s priority: Recapturing House for Democrats
- Pittsburgh mayoral candidates urged to refrain from mudslinging
- Ferlo says he hasn’t decided on run for Pittsburgh mayor
- Ravenstahl’s parents relieved the ‘weight’ has been lifted from son’s shoulders
- Wagner continues to consider run as independent for Pittsburgh mayor
- Former revenue secretary Wolf ‘likely’ to challenge Corbett
- Jindal: The man who could be GOP king
- Priebus easily wins second term as RNC chairman 9:53 p.m.
- Republicans gather in Charlotte to discuss strategy 2:55 p.m.
- Casey pushes protection of women in Afghanistan
- Familiar faces could define politics in the year 2013
Scandals vs. sway
By Salena ZitoIn T.S. Eliot’s drama “Murder in the Cathedral,” kowtowing knights who overhear England’s Henry II vent frustration with Thomas Becket decide to please the king by killing the archbishop. Confronted with the scandalous murder, Henry is forced to deny involvement …
Obama, Dems misfire on guns
By Salena ZitoBELLE VERNON, Pa. The owner of a small gun shop here sits on a wooden stool behind a glass-topped counter filled with handguns. The only thing folks talk about when they come into this store is what Washington will do …
Salena Zito: Thriving D.C.’s bubble will burst
By Salena ZitoWASHINGTON Eighteen Starbucks shops can be found in the three-mile walk from DuPont Circle to the U.S. Capitol. Not one of them had a line less than seven people deep on a recent Wednesday afternoon. Twenty-one construction sites filled with …
Good at campaigning, bad at governing
By Salena ZitoCHALK HILL, Pa. The old house leans unnaturally westward along a back road, as if chasing the setting sun into a surrounding meadow. Wildflowers splinter its wooden porch planks; a lonely patch of red paint marks an exterior long ago …
Why can’t we just all get along?
By Salena ZitoBells marking the noon hour had just stopped pealing when an ear-shattering explosion ripped the downtown street, filling the air with shards of glass. Flame and smoke towered 100 feet skyward. The blast, enclosed within a valley of tall buildings, …
America preserved
By Salena ZitoGETTYSBURG Everything about this town whispers to visitors, “Here lies the soul of America’s story.” It is found in the peach orchards and rolling wheat fields where gunfire, explosions and wails of the dying have been replaced by stone sentinels …
Deepening disconnect
By Salena ZitoHARMONY, Pa. If one French-Indian guide had not been a particularly bad shot, George Washington would have died in this Butler County village when he passed through at the age of 21, after failing to negotiate a treaty with the …
Common thread for baseball, America
By Salena ZitoNothing better captures the essence of hope springing eternal than Opening Day in American baseball. It is the one day of a year when each team across the league starts out at zero, and you can at least dream for …
Underdogs & elitism
By Salena Zito 3:49 p.m.Last week, in a small town named after the moon (because of what once was considered the town’s vast distance from the big city, according to one local legend), at a university named after a critically important yet universally forgotten …
Obama aims for ‘powerful’ legacy
By Salena ZitoJames Polk’s vow to serve only one term as president of the United States made him a lame duck from the outset. Instead of finding that status constricting, Polk used it to set four specific goals to achieve in four …
Signs point to 2000 redux in 2016
By Salena ZitoThe story of where American voters are today, in terms of partisan split, is the same as it was heading into the 2000 presidential election. We are a country split down the middle, leaning slightly Democrat. Much has happened since …
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