Larry J. Schweiger

By: Larry J. Schweiger In 1812, Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry led a backroom redistricting plan. One rigged district was so contorted that it looked like a salamander. Since then, the…

By: Larry J. Schweiger While the number of deaths in the United States from COVID-19 has reached more than110,000, the origin of the virus has been the focus of political…

By Larry J. Schweiger Pittsburgh Current Columnist info@pittsburghcurrent.com George Floyd’s murder was a modern-day lynching and a profound symbol for all to see what is wrong in America. Witnessing mass…

By: Larry J. Schweiger Thomas Jefferson once observed, “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” He added…

By: Larry J. Schweiger As we approach the 2020 elections, American voters are being inundated with propaganda paid for by secret money sources including Russian trolls, corporate polluters, and elements…

By Larry J. Schweiger For the Pittsurgh Current info@pittsburgh current.com Nearly everyone would like to get our lives back to “normal,” but overwhelming most Americans understand that our health and…

By Larry J. Schweiger Workers in slaughterhouses, frontline bus drivers, transit operators, and essential grocery store clerks did their jobs during this past month. Many faithfully showed up to work…

By: Larry J. Schweiger info@pittsburghcurrent.com It has been fifty years since the first Earth Day when protesters, wearing gas masks and dressed in black, carried a coffin down Pittsburgh’s Fifth…

By Larry J. Schweiger Pittsburgh Current Columnist info@pittsburghcurrent.com We are witnessing food insecurity in Pittsburgh. Thirteen hundred vehicles lined up for two boxes of emergency family food from the Food…