#KeystoneState: The story of Duquesne, Pennsylvania 1968-2023. SalenaZito.com
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#KeystoneState: The story of Duquesne, Pennsylvania 1968-2023. SalenaZito.com
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/mastrianos-crusades-wear-thin
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.0 | Here's John Batchler. |
| 0:11.0 | To Duquesne, Pennsylvania, western Pennsylvania. |
| 0:15.0 | The story here begins in 1968. |
| 0:19.0 | One day, layoffs hit the very large steel plant there, |
| 0:24.0 | 8,000 laid off. |
| 0:25.0 | And western Pennsylvania would see over the next decade. |
| 0:29.0 | Repeatedly, the same episode of layoffs and disheartened people |
| 0:34.0 | leaving them out of the development of what we now know |
| 0:38.0 | to be overseas manufacturing, overseas steel making |
| 0:42.0 | by what would eventually become a major rival |
| 0:46.0 | the peoples Republic of China. |
| 0:47.0 | But what about Duquesne? |
| 0:49.0 | What about western Pennsylvania? |
| 0:51.0 | I welcome Selena Zito, who writes for the Pittsburgh Post |
| 0:55.0 | Gazette, the Washington Examiner and the New York Post, |
| 0:58.0 | who takes us to Duquesne and accadded for the Republican nomination |
| 1:03.0 | in the 17th congressional district, Jim Nelson, pastor Jim Nelson. |
| 1:08.0 | Selena, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:10.0 | What does Duquesne look like today, 55 years after the steel mills left? |
| 1:17.0 | It looks very much the same way that it's sister city right across the river, |
| 1:24.0 | Braddock, Pennsylvania, and steer listeners know that's the home of |
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