Chris Deluzio: “This defense industry consolidation, this lack of competition, it's leaving us, I fear, ill-prepared and harming our…”

Youth sports should not be a luxury good.

Western Pennsylvania and other coal communities powered our country for decades, but the industry left behind a lot of dangerous and polluting, ‘zombie mines,

Sports should be a sacred part of childhood. Instead, big money vultures have turned youth sports into a luxury item. That must end.

These are people who have not been charged with violent crimes. They have not been charged with things like robbery or burglary or rape or murder. And yet that’s who’s in this facility.