No SWJ News Roundups This Week

I’m on the road and will have limited time to put together the SWJ News Roundups this week.

Another coal miner’s daughter passed – my mother’s sister Betty. I’m in W. Pennsylvania’s former coal and steel country for the funeral and plan on spending some time here thinking about my family roots in a place that long ago was so comforting, so reassuring and so American for two families — one from Scotland and the other Italy – but now so alien. Besides visiting some of the coal towns, I’m also going to cruise around my dad’s family stomping grounds – the steel towns along the Monongalia River. You know, we used to produce and build things in this country.

I’ll post some updates and pics on Facebook should you be interested.

That said, I plan on linking to articles and opinion pieces of note as time permits. The Roundup should be back in business NLT Saturday. Thanks.