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2012-05-16 00:22:12
The effort to upgrade it is hamstrung by the city's 5-month-old ordinance that regulates lighted signs.
2012-05-16 00:06:19
William M. Carter Jr. is recognized as a legal scholar with a deep interest in social justice and community issues.
2012-05-16 00:04:42
Fighting between religious sects in Syria has spilled over into Lebanon, causing the Beirut government to send troops to try to contain it.
2012-05-15 00:15:40
With most drivers, 70 mph quickly becomes 75 mph.
2012-05-15 00:08:28
His plan deserves quick backing from the Legislature and governor.
2012-05-15 00:03:52
It's time for real banking reform to be put into place.
2012-05-14 00:22:49
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has a problem. He's at the receiving end of a civil rights lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice.
2012-05-14 00:09:28
If one dollar could contribute to developing a way to detect Alzheimer's disease in a living patient, would you spend it?
2012-05-14 00:03:29
Beginning this week, President Barack Obama will participate in three significant, very visible summits.
2012-05-13 00:21:07
The Port Authority didn't schedule any extra buses or trains, despite plenty of warning that they'd be needed.
2012-05-13 00:05:57
When it comes to obesity rates in America, a new report suggests the plate is half-empty or half-full.
2012-05-13 00:03:25
Today is Mother's Day and there's nothing a mother likes more than seeing her child finish school, even if it's a little late.
2012-05-12 00:06:25
These resources should be used as tools for improvement.
2012-05-12 00:05:00
The GOP candidate's claim of helping the auto industry to rebound is absurd.
2012-05-11 00:24:25
As with any such conflict, there are possible ways out.
2012-05-11 00:22:25
A visit to school districts around the state will reveal the impact of cuts made.
2012-05-11 00:20:31
Mr. Obama finally takes a stand on a campaign promise.
2012-05-10 00:33:57
The new provision says the contents of the fracking fluid don't have to be divulged until after drilling is over.
2012-05-10 00:21:32
The fallout from Gov. Tom Corbett's budget cuts to education just keeps falling.
2012-05-10 00:19:57
Israel has just had a major realignment of political parties, producing a new coalition that strengthens the hand of Benjamin Netanyahu.
2012-05-09 16:01:10
Take a ride under the river.
2012-05-09 16:01:09
The trade embargo must go.
2012-05-09 15:58:30
Patrick Murphy has political and prosecutorial experience.
2012-05-09 15:58:30
John Shick's medical encounters were within the UPMC system.
2012-05-09 15:54:11
Some food products are doomed. That's the case with what has become known as "pink slime."
2012-05-09 15:53:33
This is the first in a series of endorsement editorials on contested races in the April 24 primary.
2012-05-09 15:53:33
Domestic needs should not be used as a case for shortchanging America's presence and role overseas.
2012-05-09 15:52:19
It is important to keep nuclear weapons under control.
2012-05-09 15:52:19
These five men and seven women stand as a model.
2012-05-09 15:51:18
The senator should do her constituents a favor and step down.
2012-05-09 15:49:36
Mr. Kim is a development professional, with a background in public health.
2012-05-09 15:47:44
We sure hope this is the last hold-up.
2012-05-09 15:47:42
America needs a decisive, persuasive ruling.
2012-05-09 15:43:11
There is no reason to support a military with members who have overthrown a legitimate, democratically elected government.
2012-05-09 15:43:10
The numbers make it clear that tough regulation and strict enforcement by the EPA are essential.
2012-05-09 15:43:10
It is important for the county to impose what standards it can to negate drilling's ill effects.
2012-05-09 15:39:27
The nation's inland waterways are "a crisis headed for a catastrophe."
2012-05-09 15:39:27
Hines Ward was never known as a dancer until last year.
2012-05-09 15:36:54
The Great Lakes need strong ballast water rules.
2012-05-09 15:36:53
A nondescript staircase will be transformed into a Downtown curiosity piece.
2012-05-09 15:32:16
Mike Daisey's acclaimed one-man drama "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" has many virtues, but truth isn't one of them.
2012-05-09 15:32:15
The tragic events of the last week in Toulouse, France, can be examined on different levels, all of them with troubling implications.
2012-05-09 15:32:15
A lot of things about Pittsburgh are worth celebrating these days, including better air quality.
2012-05-09 15:30:18
It has taken too long, but the Transportation Security Administration is learning how to identify -- without profiling ...
2012-05-09 15:30:18
Any notion that Congress' warring parties might come to terms this year on a sensible budget were dashed Tuesday ...
2012-05-09 15:30:17
In New York or Washington, D.C., people complain that it's hard to get a cab when it rains.
2012-05-09 15:26:58
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh has done so well at recruiting adults to mentor children ...
2012-05-09 15:26:58
As outrage mounts over the killing of the 17-year-old, it's welcome news that the Department of Justice and a grand jury will investigate.
2012-05-09 15:26:58
The Obama administration's desire to stay engaged in the Middle East can sometimes take it into relationships with questionable elements.
2012-05-09 15:23:27
News is often bad by its nature, so older Americans can be forgiven for thinking that life in the United States has grown steadily worse.
2012-05-09 15:23:26
What's at issue in the case of the pink slime is deception -- and trust.
2012-05-09 15:23:26
A bill renewing and expanding the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 has set off a firestorm in the U.S. Senate.
2012-05-09 15:21:51
Sometimes there are more important things than saving money.
2012-05-09 15:21:50
In the special obituary category of those recently alive who were already thought to be dead, the name Encyclopaedia Britannica ...
2012-05-09 15:21:50
The United States needs to tell Ethiopia to keep its troops out of Eritrea, or aid will be cut off promptly.
2012-05-09 15:19:31
BRADDOCK has seen hard times, but its recovery received a boost with a rare national honor bestowed on one of its signature buildings.
2012-05-09 15:19:30
America's climate change debate is like two ships passing in the night.
2012-05-09 15:19:30
Now this could be a game changer.
2012-05-09 15:16:42
It's too early to break into a chorus of "Happy Days Are Here Again," but it looks as if the U.S. economy is turning the corner.
2012-05-09 15:16:42
City of Pittsburgh property owners got a tax bill in the mail the other day.
2012-05-09 15:15:23
Voting in Pennsylvania used to be a civic duty involving trust and personal relationships.
2012-05-09 15:15:23
What appears to have been a successful visit to the United States by British Prime Minister David Cameron must also be seen in the ...
2012-05-09 15:15:22
Time to grow up, America. Get off the bottle.
2012-05-09 15:12:19
Great Lakes states like Pennsylvania can take some comfort, but not a lot, from President Barack Obama's proposed budget.
2012-05-09 15:12:19
Over the years, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has been known more for patronage and politics
2012-05-09 15:12:19
The position of the Obama administration, as articulated by Attorney General Eric Holder, on killing Americans who may be a threat ...
2012-05-09 15:10:06
Mars has given NASA a platform for demonstrating what it does right when it comes to unmanned planetary exploration.
2012-05-09 15:09:17
The failures were due to inexperienced inspectors, inadequate oversight, management turnover, poor training and reduced staffing.
2012-05-09 15:09:16
The predawn killing by an Army staff sergeant of 16 Afghan civilians could trigger a more rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces.
2012-05-09 15:06:30
The complexity of America's economy is exemplified by two key measures released Friday.
2012-05-09 15:06:30
Nearly half a century ago, Mitt Romney's father, Gov. George Romney, ran for the Republican nomination for president.
2012-05-09 15:06:30
The debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale has been literally shaken up by events in neighboring Ohio.
2012-05-09 15:04:06
It's all too familiar, these ex-Pennsylvania lawmakers leaving courtrooms after fresh guilty verdicts ...
2012-05-09 15:04:05
Every year, the Internal Revenue Service issues warnings about tax scams that may look obvious to most people, but that fool too many ...
2012-05-09 15:04:03
The video "Kony 2012," on Joseph Kony of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army, is going viral in social media ...
2012-05-09 15:00:33
PITTSBURGH'S image as a regional movie capital has received a fresh boost ...
2012-05-09 15:00:33
Who deserves to be poor? Asked that way, the question invites a personal value judgment ...
2012-05-09 14:56:19
Pittsburghers still have more questions than answers about Thursday's tragedy in Oakland.
2012-05-09 14:56:18
Football is a violent game. It is played along a fine line that separates fierce competition from thuggery.
2012-05-09 14:55:11
With her latest budget reductions, city schools superintendent Linda Lane continues to walk a fine line of cutting costs ...
2012-05-09 14:55:11
So far, President Barack Obama has been successful in keeping the United States out of another Middle East war.
2012-05-09 14:55:11
The lessons of gambling apply to political life, and singer Kenny Rogers got it right:
2012-05-09 14:51:29
Tuesday's primaries and caucuses, billed as "Super Tuesday," left Republicans and everyone else with a little more clarity ...
2012-05-09 14:51:29
For as much as social media can be useful, this is one editorial that we hope you won't text to someone who might be driving.
2012-05-09 14:51:29
The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority is looking for a professional firm to manage the agency on an interim basis ...
2012-05-09 14:48:31
Candidates backing Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, were the big election winners Friday in its 290-seat parliament,
2012-05-09 14:48:31
Gov. Tom Corbett is right to pressure the Port Authority for a cost-cutting contract to take effect July 1.
2012-05-09 14:48:30
Forbes.com loves Pittsburgh. It might even be a love bordering on obsession, given the honors the website has bestowed recently.
2012-05-09 14:46:05
Broadcaster Rush Limbaugh has the perfect little racket going.
2012-05-09 14:46:05
Although Vladimir V. Putin was elected president Sunday by a wide margin, more than 63 percent of the vote, thousands of Russians
2012-05-09 14:46:05
No one thinks about sewers until they back up.
2012-05-09 14:44:46
Last month ground was broken on the Smithsonian Institution's 19th museum.
2012-05-09 14:44:45
Garfield and good news don't often go hand in hand.
2012-05-09 14:44:45
We can't fault the state Department of Corrections for erring on the side of caution in suspending eight prison guards ...
2012-05-09 14:41:40
Pittsburgh is used to street closures and traffic jams due to movie shoots.
2012-05-09 14:41:39
IT WAS MR. BUMBLE in Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist" who uttered the immortal line, "If the law supposes that, then the law is a ass, a
2012-05-09 14:41:39
The New York Police Department's surveillance and data compilation activities directed against Muslims in the United States show a
2012-05-09 14:39:24
Population growth normally would be good news for the city of Pittsburgh, but that's not true when the expansion is taking place among
2012-05-09 14:39:23
Woodland Hills High School basketball star Shakim Alonzo was a model student athlete.
2012-05-09 14:38:09
As the saying goes, sometimes a driver needs eyes in the back of his head, especially to avoid a tragedy such as running over an unseen
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