Conflict sells

There are some Pennsylvanians doing great work to help people and treat them with dignity and respect. I'm talking about people like Regan Cooper, executive director of the Pennsylvania Immigrant and Citizenship Coalition, and Ho-Thanh Nguyen, president of Pennsylvania Immigrant and Refugee Women's Network. Regan and Ho-Thanh are two of many people around the state who work in the trenches with little notice or fanfare.

With this in mind, it's more than a bit appalling that the two Pennsylvanians getting the most attention in the immigration debate are these two:


A guy named Vento and a guy named Barletta are race-baiting on the immigration issue. Irony so thick....

Andy in Harrisburg, a third-generation German-American