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Tony Norman: Next up, 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road'?
Having no checks or balances on first-strike nuclear authority should be considered morally untenable. The very existence of these weapons
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Brian O'Neill: Pittsburgh robot-makers need a hand
A Brookings report shows our potential. We don’t need top-down planning, we need only nurture what’s been happening organically
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Brian O'Neill: Age and youth combine for new/old take on Pittsburgh
Sam Hazo’s latest edition of “The Pittsburgh That Stays Within You” gets some new blood with great photos by a high school student.
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Dan Simpson: It's the preposterous season
It’s autumn, season of the absurd from Afghanistan to Pittsburgh.
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David M. Shribman: In Trump's U.N. speech, a clash of cultures
President Trump’s U.N. speech reflected his desire to be both conventional and extraordinary.
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Tony Norman: The Central Park Five and history’s endless loop
When it comes to criminal justice, details may change, but the unseemly rush to judgment in racially charged cases always feels preordained.
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Ruth Ann Dailey: Heartland disregard is Harvard’s petard
In one ugly gesture, Harvard University has justified every vote cast for Donald Trump.
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Walkabout: High rent, low rent, same courtroom
District Judge Oscar Petite’s courtroom in the Hill District gets more interesting with increase in Strip District developments.
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Brian O'Neill: Living between a wreck and a gone place
Barbara Lee Suber’s home sits between two city-owned vacant homes, longtime boarded, overgrown wrecks.
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David M. Shribman: Unthinkable wars in faraway places
History tells us that today’s nuclear crisis with North Korea really could blow up
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Tony Norman: In America, insulting leaders is protected (right?)
In America where we pay lip service to the First Amendment more out of habit than conviction.
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Brian O'Neill: Weed 'em and reap — city and PWSA prune a park
Residents who have lived around the park see it as one seamless space. The split duties look like little more than a way to shift blame.
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Reg Henry: Out with ‘left’ and ‘right.’ Who’s a ‘Neville’?
Trump has basically reduced the conservative philosophy to its grossest and meanest components and taken it all to extremes.
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Dan Simpson: Stumbling into another war
When the Kurds declare independence, the U.S. will face ugly options.
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Tony Norman: Get used to Andrew Jackson’s $20 mug shot
Even by the standards of his era, Andrew Jackson, America’s seventh president, comported himself like a barbarian.
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Ruth Ann Dailey: At 11 September St., vets keep history alive
The Glenford Dugan Post 229 American Legion in Nelsonville, Ohio, address is 11 September St., but it is not new. It’s been that since 1923.
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Walkabout: On Mount Washington, a Walkatop benefits suicide prevention
At Emerald View Park, go deep into the woods, keep an eye on the skyscrapers and support those who would prevent suicides.
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Brian O'Neill: Zineb El Rhazoui, living in defiance of all forms of fascism
The French-Moroccan journalist was not in her Charlie Hebdo office during the 2015 massacre. She continues to fight against the menace.
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David M. Shribman: President McKinley’s devotion to duty
The 25th president, who knew the Civil War firsthand, speaks to us today
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Tony Norman: When police are equal-opportunity offenders
Video of two white women running afoul of police officers who didn’t bother to hide their contempt for civil liberties blew up on social
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Brian O'Neill: The WWII vets in the same boat
“That’s a helluva thing to take away,” said Jack Naughton, 91. “There’re not that many of us left and they’re taking the benefits away.”
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Dan Simpson: Cooling it on North Korea
Look at what each player in the game wants — and recognize that the Kim regime wants, above all, to survive.
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Walkabout: Water advisory sheds light on what we take for granted
Four days without safe tap water: an inconvenience and a reminder of conditions in the developing world.
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Brian O'Neill: Don’t chisel this WWII vet out of ‘household task assistance’
In July, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System told him a service provided to more than 1,000 veterans in the area is being discontinued for him.
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Tony Norman: 'Mattress Mack,' Houston’s best Good Samaritan
Jim McIngvale is always helping people, whether local or from abroad because that is his first impulse.
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Brian O'Neill: A severance tax on gas drilling in Pennsylvania is only fair
The rest of us are about to be asked to make serious sacrifices, and the drilling industry needs to do its share, too.
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David M. Shribman: In 'hard conversations' with Pa. voters, the challenge ahead for Trump
A local focus group shows some Trump voters with real buyers’ remorse: “He’s not professional, forget about presidential.”
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Brian O'Neill: A park's great view of Pittsburgh obscured by neglect
Seeing your favorite park go to seed is a daily annoyance, particularly when phone calls to those in charge net buck-passing.
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Dan Simpson: Alienating the world, Trump style
Americans can’t pretend Trump’s utterances and actions don’t mean anything
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Tony Norman: ‘Game of Thrones’ is reality TV of the moment
But “Game of Thrones” is just as interesting for the way in which it deviates from our political moment.
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Brian O'Neill: Do you have the attention span of a goldfish?
It seems a human’s attention span is now shorter than a goldfish’s; eight seconds is about where we’re at. Hey, where’d everybody go?
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David M. Shribman: The cautionary tale of Bob Haldeman
He traveled from the pinnacle of power to the confines of prison in eight short years.
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Tony Norman: The parable of a very fine American
There once was a very fine American who was disappointed that our country’s very fine, beautiful statues and monuments were being torn down.
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