The Post-Gazette pushes back after Rob Rogers’ firing
By Grant Burgman | News Editor
June 20, 2018
Filed under City, News, Uncategorized
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette fired cartoonist Rob Rogers June 14 for being “unwilling to collaborate on his cartoons” after 25 years of creating editorial cartoons for the paper. Rogers claims that he was fired because his supervising editors thought he was being too harsh to President Donald Trump...
Editorial: Post-Gazette editorial not representative of newspaper or city
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 16, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
If the Pittsburgh Post-Gazettes’ Monday editorial “Reason as racism” put a bad taste in your mouth, you’re not alone. The editorial defended President Donald Trump’s inflammatory statement he made in a meeting Thursday with lawmakers discussing immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and sev...
Editorial: NFL player safety more important than politics
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
December 6, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
It seems like the National Football League won’t leave the headlines. The week 13 game Monday night between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cincinnati Bengals turned violent, resulting in a potentially life-altering spinal injury for Steelers’ linebacker Ryan Shazier and multiple players’ ejections...
Editorial: Senator Flake denounces, but forfeits to the new normal
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 24, 2017
Filed under Columns, Opinions, Uncategorized
Republican Sen. Jeff Flake from Arizona delivered a 17-minute speech on the Senate floor Tuesday denouncing “the new normal” and declaring he won’t seek reelection in 2018 — but his powerful political call to action was a resounding forfeit. In a Washington Post op-ed the same day, Flake ...
Editorial: In wake of Weinstein, keep pushing forward
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 18, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Most English teachers — and certainly any editor — will say to use the active voice when possible. Jackson Katz, an educator and author at the forefront of the male feminism movement, wants to make sure you remember that too. “We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men...
Editorial: Commemorating a slain journalist
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 17, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
It was a sunny afternoon yesterday in the island nation of Malta, between North Africa and Sicily. Daphne Caruana Galizia was driving her Peuguot near her home when a car bomb exploded, killing her and tossing the wreckage of the car into a nearby field. When The Guardian broke the news last night,...
Editorial: Trump’s big, empty tax promises
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 12, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
President Donald Trump visited Harrisburg Wednesday, Oct. 11 to discuss his plans for tax reform in front of a crowd of roughly 1,000 people. The crowd comprised mostly of truckers and small manufacturing business owners — the types of people Trump promised to help while campaigning for the presiden...
Editorial: Trump’s contradictory contraceptive rollback
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 10, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Touting the decision as a defense of religious liberty, President Donald Trump rolled back an Obama-era federal mandate Friday that required employers to provide contraception in their health care coverage. The decision might appease his voting base, but it is both a morally and constitutionally...
Editorial: Don’t forget about Puerto Rico in wake of Maria
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 26, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
When it made landfall in Puerto Rico Sept. 20, Hurricane Maria was the largest storm the island faced in the last 80 years. Almost the entire population of the island — nearly 3.5 million American citizens — still do not have electricity. Many also do not have running water, and 95 percent of ...
Editorial: Graham-Cassidy plan ruins progress and instills division
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 20, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
On one side of the aisle, U.S. lawmakers are tackling the issue of health care with the broadest strokes possible by introducing a constitutional amendment that affirms access to health care as a basic human right. On the other side of the aisle, Republicans are attempting to repeal and replace former ...
Editorial: Stand strong to protect DACA recipients
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 5, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions, Top Stories
Imagine living in the United States your entire life — from your earliest memories, you’ve been here. And in 2014, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals protected your status, keeping you safe from the ever-looming threat of deportation. But as of Tuesday, because your parents immigrated illegally sho...
Editorial: Elephant death is tragic, but zoo does more good than harm
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 4, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
With Labor Day signalling the end of the summer season for many Pittsburghers, a number chose to take the day off to visit the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium. Most came to see the animals. But after the deaths of a three-month-old elephant calf and the zoo’s oldest male tiger in rapid succession la...
Editorial: Toomey isn’t listening to constituents
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
August 31, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
After months of relentless pressure from voters all across the state, Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey finally attended a town hall meeting last night to hear his constituents’ grievances — sort of. In a PBS-organized special, Toomey appeared for an hour on stage in front of an audience of about 50 c...
Editorial: Florida university should let professor speak
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
August 30, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
In the aftermath of last fall’s elections, many on Twitter who had opposed President Donald Trump’s campaign blamed Florida — one of the states that gave the Republican an electoral victory. But Floridians, it seems, are just as quick to condemn the residents of other states that voted red. Kenneth Stor...
Editorial: Don’t let presidency divide the same side
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
August 29, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Religion often claims to be the moral compass of a society. But when religious leaders take political sides, rather than moral, the people are left with a compass that points in two different directions. Leaders of multiple faiths convened on the 54th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “...
Editorial: Safe roads require more than just bike lanes
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
August 27, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
From the lack of parking in front of the Cathedral, a safer Bigelow Boulevard crosswalk or the freshly painted white and yellow lines — the new bike lanes are pretty hard to miss. The City of Pittsburgh opened the lanes Aug. 15 on portions of Forbes Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard — a much-needed development as Oakland is the city’s second most-biked neighborhood, after Downtown. The lanes...
Editorial: Leaving Pittsburgh for the summer? Maybe think twice
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
July 18, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Since we still operate over the summer, many Pitt News editors and writers get the chance to spend their school-free months in Pittsburgh. And in our last print edition of the summer, we wanted to reflect on a trend we’ve noticed here year after year — we’re far lonelier in Oakland from May to...
Editorial: Toomey is either lying or misinformed, and it will hurt Pennsylvanians
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
June 27, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Regardless of what Sen. Pat Toomey may say, the new Senate health care bill does cut federal spending to Medicaid, and does so in a significant way. Medicaid is a federal program designed to provide health insurance to those who otherwise cannot afford it, and as of April 2017 nearly 75 million Ame...
Editorial: The Port Authority is ignoring important BRT stakeholders
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
June 20, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Port Authority has promised people that live on the lines of the proposed Bus Rapid Transit project faster commutes, new electric buses and safe bike lanes. But the proposal isn’t perfect, and the people that might be negatively impacted by the project are being ignored. Some 3,000 riders a...
Editorial: New UHC dean has opportunity to refocus college
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
June 7, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
If it weren’t on the 35th floor of the Cathedral of Learning, you might be able to hear the crickets from outside in the University Honors College lounge. But it wasn’t always this way. Founded in 1987 by Dean Alec Stewart, the UHC once was a place where true intellectualism fostered, a place where students with or without pre-professional majors could come debate, disc...