February 15, 2012
Dan Simpson
While U.S. relations with Bolivia can be divided into periods in quest of clarity, U.S. corporate investment there across 187 years of Bolivian independence is probably the central, constant theme.
February 15, 2012
Reg Henry
I am writing this on Valentine's Day, and all around me, unseen, cupids fly unleashing their little arrows.
February 14, 2012
Ron Cook
If it has been said once, it has been said hundreds of times. The Steelers owe Hines Ward. They owe him a job.
February 14, 2012
Tony Norman
Whatever happened to the honest bigot? What happened to the guy who used to tell you to your face that he didn't like you because of the color of your skin, your religion or your sexual preference?
February 13, 2012
Ruth Ann Dailey
Conservatives and their libertarian kin have long contended that Barack Obama's vision for America is fundamentally different from the founders' ideal. With his policy on free birth control -- and even in his shell game of a reversal -- he has proven them right.
February 12, 2012
Brian O'Neill
Our schizoid winter is playing with Pittsburghers' minds. My neighbor Tom had the top down on his '66 Mustang convertible in January, when it felt like May and even bald guys went hatless. He called me to say I should be bold and come out in favor of global warming.
February 12, 2012
Jack Kelly
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich, a butterfly expert at Stanford, published "The Population Bomb." It was filled with apocalyptic predictions: "In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now," he wrote.
February 12, 2012
David Shribman
Eisenhower should be memorialized more for what he did than for the roots from which he sprang
February 9, 2012
Samantha Bennett
We've all heard of, if not ventured across, the soda/pop divide. In Pittsburgh, we're close enough that it's a day trip and doesn't even require the wagon trains of old.
February 6, 2012
Gene Collier
INDIANAPOLIS -- Two weeks of polishing the NFL legends of Eli Manning and Tom Brady into modern gunslinger monuments might have seemed prudent for an unprecedented collision of Super Bowl MVPs, but the result wasn't terribly artistic until both quarterbacks finally drew their weapons late in a breathtaking Super Bowl.
February 5, 2012
Sally Kalson
The good news is that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation has seen the error of its way and reversed its plans to eliminate grants to Planned Parenthood. The bad news is how it lost sight of its mission to begin with.