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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Two U.S. reps to headline speaker slate at Johnstown's Showcase for Commerce defense, business expo
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Two congressmen will headline the list of participants in the 34th annual Showcase for Commerce business and defense contracting exposition this upcoming week in Johnstown. Chief Deputy Whip U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Washington, whose 14th Congressional District includes Somerset County, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address during the John P. Murtha Breakfast Friday. House Committee on Agriculture Chairman U.S. Rep. Glenn 'G.T.' Thompson, R-Centre, will address the Government Acquisition Leaders Briefings Thursday. Both events are set to take place inside the Frank J. Pasquerilla Conference Center in downtown Johnstown. 'We have a couple really good keynote addresses planned,' said Linda Thomson, president and CEO of Johnstown Area Regional Industries, which co-hosts Showcase for Commerce with the Cambria Regional Chamber. The U.S. Department of Defense's usual presence will be missing from Showcase. 'We have really relied on industry speakers this year because a lot of the government personnel that we would normally invite are not able to travel,' Showcase for Commerce Chairman Ed Sheehan Jr. said. 'They have travel restrictions in place right now that preclude them from attending these kinds of events, and so we've relied heavily on industry. 'It should be very interesting and more of an industry perspective on things like advanced manufacturing and machine learning and artificial intelligence, an industry perspective on cybersecurity and then also workforce development.' This will be the first Showcase without former U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. since he started serving as the event's congressional sponsor in 2013. The Democrat is no longer in the Senate, having lost last year to then-challenger and now-U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa. Neither McCormick nor U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is expected to attend Showcase this year, but both have offered 'a lot of support,' according to Thomson. A highlight of the event will once again be the opening reception from 4 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday inside 1st Summit Arena @ Cambria County War Memorial downtown. 'The thing we're really excited about this year is that we are sold out as far as the booths (for the opening reception) and we have 13 new participants this year that are having booths, so we feel really good about that,' Cambria Regional Chamber President and CEO Amy Bradley said. 'I think the Showcase continues to evolve, and it's just nice to see new booths wanting to participate and to have such good turnout.' Showcase will begin Wednesday with networking activities, including a golf outing and receptions. Supplier briefings and the government contracting series are scheduled for Thursday. The expo will conclude Friday with a press conference and public exhibition.
Axios
09-04-2025
- Business
- Axios
Tariffs spark conversation on a Rust Belt revival
President Trump's allies say his tariffs are helping Rust Belt cities make a comeback, casting the area as a beneficiary of the trade war. Why it matters: Former industrial powerhouses like Pittsburgh once fueled America's growth — but economists say tariffs alone won't bring back the old steel economy that some want to recapture. The big picture: Trump has signed a flurry of tariffs over his first three months in office, including a 25% tax on imported steel and aluminum and varying degrees of tariffs on dozens of nations. State of play: Supporters of Trump's trade war see it as a path to rebuilding the U.S. manufacturing base — reversing decades of industrial job losses. "I fully support President Trump's critical efforts to right this generational wrong, bring manufacturing jobs home, and rejuvenate American working families," said Republican U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, who represents mill towns in Pittsburgh's Mon Valley, last week on X. Ohio Republican U.S. Rep. Michael Rulli told Fox News that steel towns like Mingo Junction — located less than an hour west of Pittsburgh — are already seeing revitalization thanks to the tariffs. Reality check: Chris Briem, a regional economist with the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Social and Urban Research, said trade policies had little impact on the loss of the region's steel and manufacturing jobs, noting that the steel industry's collapse in the 1980s was a decade before the North American Free Trade Agreement was signed. "Whatever the impact was, it was just a shadow. The steel industry collapsed before NAFTA was conceived," he said. Pittsburgh's steel industry suffered because of modernization, non-coal fuel sources and more efficient technology that didn't need as many workers, Briem told Axios. By the numbers: Pittsburgh manufacturing employment peaked in the 1950s with about 380,000 jobs, but began to decline shortly after and has been in a virtual free fall ever since. The pandemic marked a low point for Pittsburgh-area manufacturing, which fell to about 82,000 jobs in April 2020, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Things have ticked up a bit from there, but the region has only added about 3,000 manufacturing jobs since. The other side: Nine steel executives — including U.S. Steel CEO David Burritt — told Trump in a March letter that his 2018 steel tariffs led to nearly $20 billion in industry investment. Earlier this month, United Steelworkers union president David McCall said the proposed tariffs could help bring jobs back to the U.S. But he warned that tariffs on allies like Canada are counterproductive — and that genuine revival will take strategic investment. Zoom in: U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Allegheny) approves of some targeted tariffs, but told Axios that Trump's across-the-board approach is reckless and "divorced from any policy to supercharge manufacturing." He noted that Howmet, a Pittsburgh-based airplane parts manufacturer, recently warned it might cancel its orders to Boeing and Airbus because of the tariffs. Deluzio said the government should be providing tax credits to industries that are critical to national defense, such as semiconductor chipmakers and aerospace. What's next: PNC chief economist Gus Faucher said manufacturing growth is possible in Pittsburgh and across the Rust Belt — but not the kind tied to low-cost goods targeted by Trump's tariffs.
South China Morning Post
20-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Meet Brooke Singman, US Rep Guy Reschenthaler's girlfriend: she's one of Fox News' brightest young stars, an opera singer and Trump insider – and could she become Donald Trump's press secretary?
Guy Reschenthaler, 41, a right-wing US Representative, has apparently moved on after separating from wife Jennifer in November. The House of Representatives ' chief deputy whip has been spotted cosying up to 32-year-old Fox News digital correspondent Brooke Singman in Washington, according to Page Six, the pair even having dinner at an event at the Library of Congress last week. Guy Reschenthaler is a US Republican Representative. Photo: @greschenthaler/Instagram Although Singman is a political correspondent for Fox News , an insider confirmed to the Daily Mail that the budding romance doesn't present a conflict of interest because she doesn't cover Congress, where Reschenthaler works. Advertisement So what do we know about Brooke Singman? She's a Boston University graduate Brooke Singman attended Boston University. Photo: @brookesingman/Instagram Singman grew up in Connecticut and attended New Canaan High School, according to her LinkedIn details. She then headed to Boston University and obtained a degree in broadcast journalism with a minor in political science, says her Fox News biography. At university she spearheaded the YouTube launch of Good Morning, BU, the university's first live news show and reported on the city for the Boston University News Service. She then began covering politics for Boston's Neighborhood Network News. She joined Fox News in 2014, the same year she graduated and her first position was assistant to Jay Wallace, now company president. What is Brooke Singman known for?
