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A city workforce that has become less diverse will soon have a new member charged with reversing that trend, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl pledged yesterday. The hunt for an equal opportunity officer to upgrade minority recruitment is one part of a two-pronged staff shift announced yesterday. It's billed as Mr. Ravenstahl's effort to insert his priorities into a city hierarchy that he's run for eight months, and recently cleared of several hold-overs from predecessor Bob O'Connor's inner circle. He's also looking to hire a manager assigned to measuring city government's effectiveness, which he said reflects the need for accountability in...

Senator Kerry, Americans want to see your entire Military Record by Col. Bob Pappas, USMC, Ret. It is well known that John Kerry testified before the Congress in 1971 and his testimony although both disputable and refutable in factual, ethical, and Constitutional terms, is an indisputable historical fact. Now and forever, Kerry’s ignominious testimony soils the record and good name of millions of Veterans and the United States of America. How that testimony came about, and what Kerry’s political aspirations were then, are self-evident now. Kerry was “at home” among Senators who had a likeminded agenda in 1971 and both...