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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo they are selling confederate flags at the Westmoreland Co. Fair...
here in Southwestern, PA. This is disgraceful. We have not attended the fair for years because the Fair Board allows this to happen.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)LeftInTX
(25,611 posts)johnp3907
(3,733 posts)And my wife and I are moving to Pittsburgh next month. I'm so excited to get out of Westmoreland county!
Freedomofspeech
(4,228 posts)This county is a cesspool
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)Freedomofspeech
(4,228 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,999 posts)in Cambria county. Every time I saw a confederate flag, I would SMH.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Has nothing to do with race.
johnp3907
(3,733 posts)A woman showed up in a confederate battle flag t-shirt!
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/08/14/greensburg-vigil-charlottesville-voice-of-westmoreland/amp/
Freedomofspeech
(4,228 posts)yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)Westmoreland County lost more population between 2010 and 2016 than any other county in Pennsylvania, peeling away jobs and businesses in a place brimming with local governments, water supply and treatment agencies and school districts.
New thinking is needed to reverse the decline, to improve local government collaboration, Westmoreland County Commissioner Ted Kopas told the audience at a strategic planning hearing at Westmoreland County Community College in Youngwood.
http://www.post-gazette.com/business/pittsburgh-company-news/2017/07/02/jeannette-westmoreland-county-pa-population-decline-economic-impact-de-industrialization/stories/201706250004
Freedomofspeech
(4,228 posts)Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Thanks for this thread, I am from there originally, escaped in the 80's.
YIKES!
0 chance of me ever returning, 2700 miles away now, just enough?
Freedomofspeech
(4,228 posts)We are stuck here.