The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif. stands with Denise Rucker Krepp, a former advisory neighborhood commission member, as he holds a ceremony to nullify the D.C. crime bill on Friday, March 10, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Editorial | Congress voting down D.C. crime law shows the district needs statehood

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • March 13, 2023
While the District of Columbia has 712,816 residents — higher than the populations of Vermont and Wyoming and comparable with states such as Delaware and Alaska — it doesn’t have statehood. 
This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Eli Lilly & Co. corporate headquarters in Indianapolis.

Editorial | Pharmaceutical companies should follow Eli Lilly’s lead in cutting out-of-pocket medication prices

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • March 2, 2023
Other pharmaceutical companies should cut medication prices like insulin because it saves lives.
People take part in a candlelight vigil for the victims of a migrant boat that broke apart in rough seas, in Crotone, southern Italy, on Feb. 27.

Editorial | Shipwreck in Italy carrying migrants shows that European politicians must take migration seriously

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • February 27, 2023
The shipwreck off of Italy shows how we need to take migration seriously, especially as more and more people are displaced by conflict.
Editorial | What your spring break destination says about you

Editorial | What your spring break destination says about you

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • February 26, 2023
Students, we know you’re tired of the semester, but thankfully spring break kicks off on March 5. All you need to do is power through this week and you’re free… well, at least for seven days.  You absolutely deserve a break, but where you spend that time definitely says something about you — but what? Let’s take a look. 
The Bernard B Jacobs Theatre on Broadway; 242 West 45th Street.

Editorial | The neo-Nazi protest at ‘Parade’ has far-reaching consequences

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • February 23, 2023
The neo-Nazis who protested outside of the Broadway show ‘Parade’ are using the antisemitic tropes discussed in the show as fuel to their fire, which is extremely dangerous.
Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro arrives for a news conference in Philadelphia, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. Shapiro says he won't allow Pennsylvania to execute any inmates while he is in office and calls for the state's lawmakers to repeal the death penalty.

Editorial | Pennsylvania governor made the right decision to oppose death penalty

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • February 19, 2023
But after hundreds of years and more than a thousand people killed, Pennsylvania’s governor is paving the way to change history. 
The 2021 Pittsburgh Pride Parade in Downtown.

Editorial | The New York Times’ coverage of transgender people is biased

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • February 16, 2023
The letter to the New York Times' editor criticizing their coverage of transgender people is justified.
A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains, Feb. 6.

Editorial | The train derailment sets a dangerous precedent for our environment

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • February 13, 2023
The train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and the lack of government response sets a negative precedent for the future of our environment.
People walk past the Fox School of Business on the Temple University campus in Philadelphia, Friday, April 16, 2021.

Editorial | We stand with Temple’s striking graduate students

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • February 13, 2023
At the end of January, graduate students at Temple University — a school with about 10,000 graduate students — took to the street to peacefully demand better benefits. Their efforts were met with increasing resistance from the university, which withheld tuition and health care benefits for about 100 graduate students on strike.
Democratic State Sen. Angela Turner Ford of West Point, right, listesn as Sen. John Horhn, D-Jackson, foreground, expresses the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus' disappointment at the passing of House Bill 1020, legislation that would create a separate court system in the Capitol Complex Improvement District, at the Mississippi Capitol, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, in Jackson.

Editorial | Mississippi’s new bill is problematic

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • February 9, 2023
Mississippi’s House Bill 1020 upholds the systemically racist legal system and should not become law.
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