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Dec 12, 2024
An investigation into city finances by the Post-Gazette’s Mike Wereschagin has demonstrated the depth of the coming crisis in Pittsburgh government...
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Dec 11, 2024
The consequences of the recruitment shortfalls at the United States Coast Guard and ensuing operational cutbacks, already felt in cities across the country...
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Dec 5, 2024
A compromise Allegheny County budget, including a property tax increase of 1.7 mills, represents both a victory for County Executive Sara Innamorato and...
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Nov 28, 2024
In 1907, with the pugnacious and progressive Theodore Roosevelt as president, America celebrated Thanksgiving weeks after the country had suffered a major...
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Nov 20, 2024
Pennsylvania’s campaign finance reporting system is easily gamed by unscrupulous politicians, especially in the final days before an election. State...
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Nov 19, 2024
Every knowledgeable observer of the Nippon Steel-U.S. Steel drama knows that the politics of the presidential election had warped what should have been...
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Nov 8, 2024
Rising out-of-state enrollments at Pennsylvania’s state-funded universities are symptomatic of the strains on higher education everywhere: rising...
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Nov 7, 2024
Former President Donald Trump will be the 47th president of the United States. He will enter office with an unambiguous democratic mandate, bolstered by...
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Oct 8, 2024
For decades and maybe longer, Oct. 7 will be a notorious date — not just for what happened on the day itself, but for the spiraling violence and...
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Oct 1, 2024
The devastation Hurricane Helene wrecked upon of southern Appalachia was a nightmare worse than anyone had imagined. Roads, highways, homes, campgrounds,...
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Sep 30, 2024
Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear energy plant along the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg will soon be the first retired nuclear facility...
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Sep 19, 2024
A city for all cannot be just a city for now, but must be a city for the future. In other words, a city for all must be a city for children. And right...
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Sep 17, 2024
Last week the Pennsylvania Supreme Court imprudently passed on an opportunity to settle a contentious election law dispute that could influence the result...
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Sep 9, 2024
Downtown Ambridge is thriving. In the past three years, 20 businesses have opened along Merchant Street, and the community is better for it. It’s...
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Sep 4, 2024
An expanded commitment by Nippon Steel to invest over $1 billion in the Mon Valley Works, followed by further denunciations of the Japanese steelmaker’s...
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Aug 30, 2024
Without clear standards regarding ballot “curing,” Pennsylvania will continue to implement election rules unfairly and haphazardly, county...
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Aug 15, 2024
From South Side encampments overflowing with furniture to tents taking over the Three Rivers Heritage Trail behind the Allegheny County Jail, increasingly...
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Aug 12, 2024
Since the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump on July 13, reporting and public disclosures have continued to underscore the communication...
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Aug 7, 2024
While Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was busy making headlines for other reasons in the last few weeks, a decision that will improve tax season for...
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Aug 5, 2024
While Thursday’s historic prisoner swap among United States, five of its allies and Russia is a tremendous diplomatic achievement, and should be...
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Jul 15, 2024
Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler County has brought to life the fears of political violence shared by...
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Jul 11, 2024
Funding delays impact school districts, state universities, community colleges, and many county services, including child welfare programs.
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Jul 9, 2024
The second-tallest skyscraper in Downtown Pittsburgh could become completely vacant within the next five years, an unsettling post-pandemic reality that...
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Jul 5, 2024
Since County Executive Sara Innamorato’s inauguration this January, one of the main questions on the lips of the region’s leaders and political...
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Jul 4, 2024
On this Fourth of July, we would like to present excerpts from one of the greatest Independence Day speeches in American history. In 1852, Frederick Douglass...
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Jul 2, 2024
Contrary to many reports, the Supreme Court did not criminalize homelessness last week. In City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, the court affirmed the legal...
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Jun 28, 2024
Babies are our future, and that means our nation's future depends on every expectant mother having access to quality maternity care. Unfortunately, many...
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Jun 25, 2024
In his second budget as Pennsylvania’s chief executive, Gov. Josh Shapiro has a chance not just to boost funding in the short term for Pennsylvania’s...
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Jun 5, 2024
It’s a remarkable coincidence: In the waste produced by extracting fossil fuels, there is a huge...
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May 28, 2024
Tennessee and Delaware are the first states to create a Medicaid program offering low-income parents free diapers. It’s a move Pennsylvania should...
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May 21, 2024
The bankruptcy of Dallas-based Steward Health, which owns Sharon Regional Medical Center, highlights the headwinds facing America’s hospital system,...
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May 14, 2024
On April 22, 1794, the place known as Pittsburgh was first incorporated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. At some point in the future Pittsburgh will...
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May 13, 2024
Pennsylvania House legislators have come out in strong support of maternal doula care with a package of bills affectionately called the “Momnibus.”...
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May 8, 2024
Thanks to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and new legislation spearheaded by U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, the federal government is making an unprecedented...
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May 1, 2024
Tiny home villages in rural West Virginia and Harrisburg are testing an idea currently making its way through Pittsburgh City Council. The pilots show...
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Apr 29, 2024
Across Pennsylvania, thousands of families are waiting in limbo, unsure whether their loved ones with intellectual disabilities and autism (ID/A)...
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Apr 24, 2024
Two months ago, the Post-Gazette Editorial Board argued that new federal efficiency regulations should be crafted to avoid or delay the loss of local jobs....
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Apr 18, 2024
Gov. Josh Shapiro’s newly released energy plans for Pennsylvania aren’t perfect, and certainly won’t satisfy everyone. There are aspects...
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Apr 17, 2024
A new state stipend program is compensating educators for mandatory unpaid student-teaching, a welcome support whose immediate success has proven its necessity....
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Apr 12, 2024
Pittsburgh needs a rental property registry. After years of battles between the city and landlords’ associations, the fight has finally reached the...
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Apr 1, 2024
The Gainey administration’s scheme to squeeze taxes out of currently tax exempt properties — including, shockingly, Children’s Hospital...
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Apr 1, 2024
Connections are essential. In life, in careers and especially in commerce.
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Mar 28, 2024
There is no future for Pittsburgh Public Schools unless it closes schools and significantly reduces its real estate portfolio. That’s the clear conclusion...
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Mar 21, 2024
Nippon Steel’s bid to purchase U.S. Steel is the best available option to ensure the long-term stability of the American steel industry, and to keep...
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Mar 19, 2024
Perhaps the most consequential vote of any legislative body in Allegheny County for the last decade will take place at Wednesday’s Pittsburgh Public...
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Mar 12, 2024
America’s bloated prison population has long held many of our society’s most vulnerable, including the mentally and cognitively impaired. Over...
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Mar 11, 2024
Pittsburgh’s roads are emptier and deadlier than ever before. The Gainey administration recently recommitted itself to “Vision Zero,”...
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Mar 4, 2024
More than almost any other city in America, the fate of Downtown determines the fate of Pittsburgh. But Pittsburgh’s investments in revitalizing...
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Mar 1, 2024
A recent study by real estate company Redfin found that Pittsburgh has the largest share in the country of empty nester Boomers living in large houses...
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Feb 29, 2024
During last week’s Allegheny County Council meeting, the time occupied by public commenters on the war in Gaza — including those carelessly...
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Feb 21, 2024
Pennsylvania should join the growing number of states — currently 26, including neighbors New York and Maryland — that allow certified registered...
Dec 12, 2024An investigation into city finances by the Post-Gazette’s Mike Wereschagin has demonstrated the depth of the coming crisis in Pittsburgh government...