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Jun 23, 2025
With the political demise of Mayor Ed Gainey, it should be no surprise that the political fate of Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato has been a...
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Jun 3, 2025
In the Catholic Church, if you want to find lots of young families and children at Mass, you follow the smell of incense. Generally speaking, the number...
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May 26, 2025
Contrary to reports in the national press, Tuesday’s primary victory for Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Connor over incumbent Mayor Ed...
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May 19, 2025
I was about a month on the job when Ed Gainey was elected Mayor of Pittsburgh. I had thought there might be excitement in the newsroom about his historic...
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May 12, 2025
My 10-year-old son didn’t think anything of the loud pop at Brookline Memorial Park on Monday evening. Cap guns are common there. People running...
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May 5, 2025
During a Thursday press conference releasing Pittsburgh’s 2024 annual financial report, City Controller Rachael Heisler used the optimistic word...
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Apr 28, 2025
Lewd jokes about Corey O’Connor’s late mother. Cruel insinuations about his late father. Snide remarks about Mr. O’Connor’s stature....
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Mar 24, 2025
I was working in the newsroom on Monday afternoon when I saw a message in my friends’ chat group: “All kids to the nearest house NOW.” A...
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Mar 17, 2025
Striking a deal with Pittsburgh’s major nonprofits to support city initiatives shouldn’t have been impossible. It would have required everyone...
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Mar 10, 2025
One of the strangest political developments in this strange political moment is the dominance of conservative revolutionaries within the Republican Party....
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Mar 3, 2025
Every day in the Pittsburgh region, about 20 more people die than are born. That means more than 20 people have to move here every day to make up for them,...
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Feb 24, 2025
After Mayor Ed Gainey’s extraordinary press conference meltdown on Thursday, a high-ranking administration official called me. The performance, in...
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Feb 18, 2025
Our 9-year-old and 4-year-old boys share a bedroom. You can guess what state it’s in. Children don’t seem to notice this problem until it’s...
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Jan 20, 2025
I’ve never believed in History with a capital H. I adore history — the stories, the people, the choices, the ideas, the movements, the events,...
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Jan 13, 2025
Watching Jimmy Carter’s state funeral at the Episcopal Church’s National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., felt like viewing a portal to the past....
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Jan 6, 2025
In a final act of demented vandalism, President Joe Biden is blocking the sale of U.S. Steel to the only company in the world, Tokyo-based Nippon Steel,...
Jun 23, 2025With the political demise of Mayor Ed Gainey, it should be no surprise that the political fate of Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato has been a...