Salena Zito

Mike Rowe said that the shift in how Americans think about vocational work has been both quixotic and an overnight success for the man who has been an evangelist for the trades for over 15 years.

JEANNETTE, Pa. — Nearly 263 years ago this August, Col. Henry Bouquet marched a relief column into a stand of oak and hickory forest west of Fort

MANNS CHOICE, Pennsylvania — In January of 1941, hundreds of businessmen from communities all along the 7 miles of the Lincoln Highway that stretched

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Until recently, Lanyia Brooks worked as a custodian in a data center, where she spent her days maintaining the facility while watching tech professionals build the infrastructure around her. Brooks said that perspective changed completely when a data center technician noticed her work ethic and remarked that she “worked too hard to be just working […]

By Salena Zito INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — Until recently, Lanyia Brooks worked as a custodian in a data center, where she spent her days

PITTSBURGH — The rise of the Democratic left in Pittsburgh did not happen overnight. It was built over years through patient organizing, disciplined

‘This opportunity is my direct path to achieving the American dream,’ a former custodian avers.

CHAUTAUQUA, New York — The road here feels like one of those places that America keeps tucked away on purpose — the kind that you don't stumble into by accident.

EVERETT, Pennsylvania — On a humid stretch of late summer, in the kind of Pennsylvania where school buses still trace two-lane roads past cornfields