Top 10: People we would actually support for president
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
12:32 am
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Amy Klobuchar defended her harsh staff treatment, claiming toughness is needed to deal with Putin, but has she ever threatened her rival one hour into starting her new job? Gritty has.
Editorial: West Virginia gets creative holding Church accountable for abuse
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 20, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The state’s solution to these legal impediments might help in the effort to hold accountable those who enabled the abuse to happen.
Editorial: Stop calling Beto O’Rourke a progressive candidate
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 19, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
While O’Rourke quickly rose in fame and favor following his failed Senate bid, his past voting record as a member of the House of Representatives doesn’t match the progressive image he currently projects.
Editorial: Admissions scandal not surprising
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 19, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
For many students, the college admissions process should be a merit-based process providing opportunities to move up in the world.
Editorial: Rise in white nationalism fed by politicians
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 17, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
In wake of the mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday, we’ve seen that such blatant refusals to admit the gravity of white supremacy and racism have a wider effect than just the United States alone.
Top 10: Pitt News Drink Factory
By The Pitt News Editorial Staff
March 7, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
We’ve gone and collected the mud and rainwater in that pothole and blended it with some tire rubber for the defining Forbes-Avenue experience in a cup.
Editorial: Conversion therapy ban a good first step
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 7, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The process is considered ineffective and abusive by most medical professionals, and a ban on it is a good step forward for Allegheny County.
Editorial: Trump makes empty promise for “A Plus” emergency relief
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 6, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Trump’s inconsistency in responding to disaster relief is unacceptable, and future disaster-affected states deserve the same support he has given Alabama.
Editorial: Fox-Trump relationship unethical, dangerous
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 4, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The New Yorker article shows an unethical, incredibly alarming relationship between Fox News and the Trump administration.
Editorial: Executive order for free speech would do more harm than good
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 3, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The executive order is yet another swing and a miss for the Trump administration, as it manages to both fundamentally misunderstand the role of the Constitution and propose a problematic solution.
Top 10: Things Pitt should be matching
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 1, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Pitt will soon match any federal Pell Grant. Here are an additional 10 things that Pitt should match and reimburse.
Editorial: Don’t ignore Cohen’s testimony
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 28, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony yesterday is something that deserves the nation’s refocused attention.
Editorial: Focus on hate crimes, not Smollett
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 27, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Regardless of Smollet's alleged hoax, we have to pay more attention to dangers of hateful organizations and violent individuals.
Editorial: Trump’s gag rule unethical, harms women
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 25, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The federal rule would decrease women’s access to inclusive health care and promote a dangerously edited education of all possible family-planning options.
Editorial: Human trafficking is a bigger problem than we’d like to admit
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 25, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Human trafficking is a widespread, serious issue that hits closer to home than expected — including here in western Pennsylvania.
Top 10: Space Force Objectives
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 22, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Get in the shuttle, loser, we’re going to make the galaxy great again. As the Space Force blasts off, here are 10 top priorities for the new military branch.
Editorial: Sanders isn’t the answer for 2020
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 21, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Many Democratic contenders are running on platforms that were heavily influenced by the ideas Sanders supported in 2016. He should allow them to do so and act as their mentor, instead of insisting on carrying on his own legacy.
Editorial: Post-Gazette executive editor threatens newspaper integrity
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 20, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Not only does Burris’ new assignment indicate a condonement of the whitewashing of racism, but it flies in the face of journalistic ethics.
Editorial: Don’t forget to vote in SGB election
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 19, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The people we vote for will influence our lives as students in numerous ways, so it’s important to vote for candidates who will best represent us.
Editorial: The wall isn’t a national emergency
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 18, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
What Trump fails to recognize in all this is that there is no crisis at the border. His national emergency creates far more problems than it solves and is a complete overextension of executive powers.
Top 10: Master plan must-haves
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 15, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Here are the top 10 most pressing issues to students and faculty alike that Pitt must incorporate into this master plan.
Editorial: Let’s talk about measles
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 13, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
States must equip children with access to vaccinations and the resources to reverse misinformation while closing loopholes that allow families to opt out of vaccination requirements for personal reasons.
Editorial: Pro-Palestine doesn’t mean anti-Semitic
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 12, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The tweets, which have been decried by Democrats and Republicans alike, lacked the context of a long history of anti-Semitic tropes and offensive stereotypes.
Editorial: Adopt paid Election Day nationwide
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 10, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Sandusky’s new policy is an excellent idea that will hopefully improve voter turnout, and the rest of the country should follow its lead.
Top 5 / Bottom 5: Las Palmas
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 8, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Las Palmas has a cult following on campus — but is there anything they could do that would actually cause them to lose support? Read more here:
Editorial: Air quality concerns require stronger action
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 7, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The number of air quality alerts issued lately is cause for great concern. It feels as if we’re sliding backwards with our air quality, and this is something we absolutely can’t allow to happen.
Editorial: Trump defies bipartisanship for border fiction
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 6, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Despite the triumphs made in the last year, Trump’s address only further displayed eagerness to use falsehoods to stoke fear and xenophobic anger to accomplish his political ends.
Editorial: Big Pharma must be stopped
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 5, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
One company may be responsible for illegal activities that expanded and considerably worsened the opioid crisis.This kind of shameful opportunism must be stopped if we’re to have any chance at stopping a national health emergency of this magnitude.
Editorial: Northam’s racist photo is inexcusable
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 4, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Northam is far too defensive of something that has no defense, and should immediately resign from office as the vast majority of his fellow Democrats demand.
Top 10: Reasons to cancel classes
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 1, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
From time to time, we may have to cancel classes — and here are 10 reasons why.
Editorial: Pitt needs to handle the cold better
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 31, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Pitt needs a more formalized plan for cancellations due to inclement weather for the safety of its students and staff.
Editorial: City leaders must be transparent in gun control battle
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 30, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
If City leaders hope to try their hand at overturning decades of court precedence, City residents deserve to know more about their plan than waiting to “find out.”
Editorial: Duke professor’s email is xenophobic, discriminatory
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 28, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Neely’s email, which implied that students speaking in a language other than English would be penalized, was uncalled for and xenophobic in nature. This isn’t the kind of thinking that should be welcomed or allowed at universities.
Editorial: Hosting Louis C.K. reflects badly on Pittsburgh
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 28, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Louis C.K.’s presence in Pittsburgh — and the entire tour — was a mistake and an insult to women in comedy and in the audience.
Editorial | Pitt’s hazing report fails student safety
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 25, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Pitt’s failure to provide anything above what is required by law is a failed commitment to student safety.
Editorial: Post-Gazette cartoons don’t speak for Pittsburgh
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 23, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
A string of editorial cartoons published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this past week may have left you scratching your head — and you’re in good company. Three cartoons drawn by Post-Gazette cartoonist Steve Kelley in the span of one week show a blatant disrespect for women and put into ques...
Editorial | Gallagher needs to pay it forward
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 22, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Former Pitt Chancellor Mark Nordenberg had a history of donating large portions of his retention bonuses to Pitt. It’s time Chancellor Patrick Gallagher followed suit.
Editorial: To protect Mon Valley, U.S. Steel must change
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 18, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Clairton Coke Works plant has a long history of pollution violations. With the health of local residents at stake, U.S. Steel must finally commit to improving the coke plant’s track record.
Editorial: Pitt is no place for hate
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 17, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
We’ve all heard slurs that target a wide range of ethnicities, religions, genders and sexual orientations. But there is no place for this kind of language at Pitt or in Pittsburgh.
Editorial | GOP hard on King, soft on Trump
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 16, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Republican leadership likely hopes their actions against King will be seen as a genuine stand against white supremacy, not something done when it is politically convenient. The GOP’s silence on Trump says otherwise.
Editorial: Trump administration threatens women’s health care
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 15, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Obama-era requirement that companies provide access to free birth control to employees seems to be temporarily safe from the Trump administration, but as always under this president, the fate of women’s health care still hangs in the balance.
Editorial: Democratic newcomers need to learn from 2016 mistakes
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 13, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
If Democrats want to win back the White House, their presidential candidates need to learn from the last time around and not allow campaigning and rhetoric to get as ugly and intense as it did in 2016.
Editorial: Trump’s test of emergency powers
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 11, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The National Emergencies Act of 1976 was originally passed to provide a check on presidential power while codifying specific constraints under which presidents could declare states of emergency. Congress must enforce this intent.
Editorial: The real consequences of Trump’s fake crisis
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 10, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Trump is both a hypocrite and wrong to blame Democrats for a lack of resolution to the shutdown, and the longer he blames others for a problem created entirely by himself, the more people he puts at risk.
Editorial: Trump’s border security the wrong answer to real problems
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 9, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
President Donald Trump’s first prime-time address was his opportunity to make a case for his border security plan. Instead, it highlighted just how little Trump understood the problems he hoped a border wall would fix.
Editorial: Trump needs to compromise on wall
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 8, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Trump needs to put aside his ego long enough to agree to a compromise, or else the consequences of a prolonged government shutdown will be serious for many Americans.
Editorial: Tumblr’s moderation efforts miss the mark
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
December 7, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Tumblr admits its moderation efforts are not perfect and that the use of automated tools to identify adult content “versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale.”
Editorial | Ruling protecting priest anonymity unfair to victims
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
December 6, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
On Monday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court voted 6-1 to keep those 11 priests anonymous. But the decision is only a victory for serial sexual abusers and self-interested church officials.
Editorial | Pittsburgh ordinance stifles community voices
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
December 5, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Community voices in Pittsburgh lobbied for a seat at the table in city planning and development. The process to earn that seat is shutting them out.
Editorial | Denmark immigration policy inhumane
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
December 4, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Denmark seemingly took a page right out of President Donald Trump's playbook on Friday, except far more severe — the Danish government will house rejected asylum seekers on a 17-acre island.
Editorial: Ohio bills threaten reproductive freedom
December 3, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Ohio bills criminalize choice in a way that is pulling the pro-choice stance of the national conversation about abortion closer to a pro-not-getting-arrested-for-exercising-autonomy stance.
Editorial: Destruction of rape kits unjust to victims
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 30, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
A CNN investigation revealed that police agencies across the country have been throwing away rape kits, oftentimes before the statute of limitations is up. This is a terrifying reality for victims, who can no longer trust that the evidence they give will even be used.
Editorial | Gab back online: a public safety hazard
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 29, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Gab was taken down last month after it’s ties to the Tree of Life gunman were revealed to the world — but it’s back up as of this weekend, which should alarm anyone who cares about public safety.
Editorial | Trump calls for state TV network: a dictator move
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 28, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The president believes the United States should form a state TV network — but such an endeavor would be a dangerous propaganda purveyor.
Editorial: Trump fundamentally misunderstands role of justice system
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 27, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court Friday to fast-track the case of the President Donald Trump’s military ban for transgender citizens, an obvious overstep by the executive branch — and it’s not the first time the Trump administration has crossed this line.
Editorial: Troops not necessary to welcome migrant caravan
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 26, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
An order from the White House gives these troops permission to use lethal force against migrants to protect Customs and Border Protection personnel. This is yet another example of the Trump administration’s inability to humanely and intelligently deal with immigration.
Editorial: How to handle relatives at Thanksgiving
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 20, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
While Thanksgiving dinner at your great-aunt’s house is not the ideal place to throw hands with your grandpa, there are ways of confronting loved ones without turning the conversation into a battleground whence your relationships may never recover.
Editorial: Trump wrongly blames forest management for fires
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 19, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Unsurprisingly, President Donald Trump has once again proven himself incapable of appropriately responding to tragedy, resorting to victim-blaming and threats rather than promising to help with disaster relief.
Editorial: GQ’s “Woman” of the Year cover insensitive
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 16, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The GQ magazine's "Woman" of the Year cover featuring Serena Williams has drawn the ire of fans on social media since its release. The stylistic choices completely ignore the important context of Williams’ history in the public eye.
Editorial: Proposed YAF lawsuit against Pitt unnecessary, harmful
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 15, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Pitt levied a $5,546 security fee against YAF for hosting Ben Shapiro — and YAF swiftly threatened to sue the university in response. But the lawsuit would be a completely unnecessary publicity stunt.
Editorial: Peduto to release Amazon bid: too little, too late
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 14, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Peduto will release Pittsburgh’s Amazon headquarters bid on Thursday, but he should have done that a lot earlier. Pittsburgers deserve to know about major, local economic developments.
Editorial: Heed Macron’s warning about nationalism
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 13, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The centennial demonstrated that a century hasn’t made foreign relations any simpler — in fact, we may be sliding back into old habits. And French President Emmanuel Macron made a serious case for the collective good at a time when the forces of nationalism are dividing the world in the same way they did leading up to WWI.
Editorial: Remember mental health of shooting victims
By The Pitt News Editorial
November 12, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Pittsburgh is still feeling the damage a mass shooting can have on a community. We’re tired of reading about it. We’re tired of writing about it. And we’re acutely aware, after having lived through it and after one person was a part of two of these events in the span of a year, that mass shootings have become a cultural problem that must be fixed.
Editorial: Attack on Acosta is an attack on all media
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 9, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
President Donald Trump’s administration has a history of attacking the press, but its most recent attack is alarmingly reminiscent of ways authoritarian countries like China treat the press.
Editorial: Sessions’ resignation could curb Russia investigation
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 8, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Wednesday's events showed a president who feels trapped by an FBI investigation that is slowly drawing to a close and a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives.
Editorial: Young people turn out: Pa. blue wave becomes tsunami
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 7, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Midterm elections are traditionally Republican dominated — but young people came out in full force this year, giving Democrats a badly needed win.
Editorial: Why TPN didn’t endorse candidates for midterm elections
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 6, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Here at The Pitt News, we don’t believe in endorsing electoral candidates — it’s wholly unnecessary and it tarnishes our image as an honest, objective newspaper.
Editorial: Bolsonaro threatens democracy
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 5, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Leaders and parties that exercise dictator-like control over the governments to which they were elected pose an intense, immediate threat to democracy worldwide. Civil liberties, freedom of the press and global security are at stake.
Editorial: Executive order on birthright citizenship unconstitutional
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 2, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The president fueled his election campaign with fear and hatred toward immigrants, but his most recent attack on them could affect the way we interpret the Constitution itself — an overreach of executive power that would hurt the lives of hundreds of thousands of children born to noncitizen parents.
Editorial: Top 5 reasons to keep Halloween on Oct. 31
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 1, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Would Halloween be more fun if it were always on a Saturday? A recent petition which has now received more than 50,000 signatures think so. But the Pitt News Editorial Board disagrees.
Editorial: Trump’s divisiveness, insensitivity provokes protests in Pittsburgh
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 31, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Trump’s arrived in Pittsburgh on Tuesday to console victims’ families in the Tree of Life shooting — but according to the Jewish community and many other people in Pittsburgh, he wasn’t welcome.
Editorial: Pittsburgh doesn’t welcome Trump
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 30, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
If the president had any respect for the victims and their families, he would stay away and allow them time to mourn without his heavily politicizing presence.
Editorial: Pittsburgh will heal
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 28, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
We didn’t expect to be thrust into the national spotlight in this way. We didn’t expect we’d become another member of a long, growing list of cities that have been the victims of mass shootings. Squirrel Hill is a peaceful, historically Jewish neighborhood about a mile away from Pitt’s campus — too close to home for it to happen to us.
Editorial: Megyn Kelly reveals racist attitudes
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 26, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Megyn Kelly received mountains of criticism for suggesting during her show Tuesday that there was nothing wrong with a white person doing blackface, so long as it’s for a Halloween costume.
North Carolina voting laws suppress minorities
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 24, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
North Carolina claims its new voting policies make it more convenient for voters to get to the polls — but really it’s an orchestrated attempt to prevent minorities from voting.
Editorial: HHS proposal threatens transgender rights
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 23, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
A new policy from the Department of Health and Human Services would eliminate federal recognition of more than a million Americans who choose to identify with a gender they weren’t born into, an alarming leap backward in the fight for transgender rights.
Editorial: Leaving nuclear treaty is a mistake
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 21, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The president’s decision to pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty not only further confirms the United States’ international reputation as a poor partner, but it also presents a real threat to nuclear disarmament and world security.
Editorial: Pa. response to church abuse insufficient
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 19, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Pennsylvania Senate had a chance to show its support for victims in the form of a bill that would allow victims of church abuse to seek justice, but in an underwhelming display of concern it declined to vote on the bill on the last voting day in legislative season.
Editorial: Riding high: United States should follow Canada’s pot legalization
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 18, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Canada became the second country in the world to legalize cannabis on Wednesday. The United States should follow suit — and weed out oppressive drug policies.
Editorial: Elizabeth Warren DNA test in poor taste
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 17, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Warren’s trace amounts of Native American DNA are laughable. Native Americans still face rampant discrimination in this country, and Warren likening her life experiences to theirs is insensitive.
Editorial: North Dakota law disenfranchises voters
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 15, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Supreme Court decided last week to allow a voter ID law in North Dakota that could prohibit a sizable number of Native Americans from registering to vote — a breach in democracy that should not be allowed.
Editorial: Immediate action necessary to limit affects of climate change
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 12, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The fate of our planet rests in the hands of about 100 corporations, which are moving further away from the economic revolution necessary to affect climate change in large part thanks to the rollback of important EPA measures. They should be moving in the opposite direction.
Editorial: Victory for Democrats: Racist committee member resigns
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 11, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Mark Salvas has made racist posts on Facebook for years. The senior members of the committee rightly encouraged him to resign — but they should screen their new hires more carefully in the future.
Editorial: Taylor Swift: voting champion, politically ignorant
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 10, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Taylor Swift took to Instagram Sunday to denounce Republican candidates and champion liberal causes. Encouraging voting is a good thing, but she’s hardly the progressive queen she paints herself as.
Editorial: Trump’s tax fraud should concern Americans
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 9, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The New York Times' groundbreaking report deserves far more attention than it’s received, and it exposes the president for the hypocrite he is.
Editorial: Kavanaugh hearings betrayed America’s trust
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 8, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Kavanaugh nomination hearings were the most partisan of any to date. This poses dire consequences for the future legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
Editorial: Stop treating politics like a game show
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 5, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
For a man who asks questions for a living, Trebek should know how to phrase one without dwelling on information that has no bearing on how the people of Pennsylvania will vote this November.
Editorial: Amazon sets great example, raises minimum wage
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 3, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Amazon is known for treating its employees poorly — so raising its minimum wage is a welcome decision. It’ll help nearly a quarter million people financially.
Editorial: Campus Master Plan requires strong community involvement
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 2, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Campus Master Plan, which is projected to take 30 years to complete, is a massive undertaking that requires a continued dialogue between the University and both students and the Oakland community.
Editorial: Kavanaugh disqualifies himself
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 1, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Kavanaugh’s combative, evasive behavior during Thursday’s testimony didn’t just bring his innocence into question, it suggests he’s not temperamentally fit to be a Supreme Court Justice.
Rowling’s retconning is unnecessary
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 28, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
In changing her own canon to presumably incorporate more diversity into her writing, she’s not adding meaningful content, nor is she being respectful in how she's introducing this supposed representation.
Editorial: Mattress Factory mishandles sexual assault allegations
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 27, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Mattress Factory’s been attracting attention for a recent sexual assault scandal — but the company has not handled it well. It’s just behaving like many other companies who don’t support women.
Editorial: Cosby conviction empowers sexual assault victims
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 25, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Cosby’s conviction is huge for sexual assault victims — he’s the first public figure since the #MeToo movement began to be convicted — proving that victims’ accusations are valid in court.
Editorial: Texas schools to erase important historical figures
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 25, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Texas Board of Education is denying students the opportunity to learn about individuals and events that have directly influenced their lives. This ignorance makes them less informed and less able to participate in current politics.
Editorial: New immigration proposal is unnecessarily strict
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 23, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The new proposal is an unfair and inhumane way to weed out immigrants whom the Trump administration deems unsuitable candidates for American citizenship.
Editorial: ‘Sesame Street’ misses educational opportunity
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 21, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Bert and Ernie — the beloved roommates of “Sesame Street” — aren't gay. For a show that has made concerted efforts to portray the kind of diversity that children experience in real life, this is a disappointing revelation.
Editorial: Kavanaugh sexual assault investigation necessary
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 20, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Although Ford’s sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh appear credible, Republicans have decided to forego an investigation — but they shouldn't be so dismissive of alleged victims.
Emmys emulate Hollywood’s shortcomings
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 19, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Emmys ratings dropped dramatically this year — proving that Hollywood has lost touch with everyday Americans on all sides of the political spectrum. This becomes more clear with every passing awards season.
Editorial: Boundaries necessary when billionaires buy newspapers
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 18, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The trend of billionaires buying newspapers raises the ethical questions of how to prevent them from influencing the content published by their papers, and what kind of relationship the editorial section and the new owner should set up to ensure there is no such influence.
Editorial: Trump plays victim as Hurricane Florence hits Carolinas
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 16, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
To argue over a death toll as a political tool is disrespectful and useless, but to do so in the midst of another deadly hurricane shows that Trump's priorities lie in defending himself and not the American people.