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Caitlin Schroering spoke at the protest outside of U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey’s Downtown office Wednesday afternoon. (Photo by Thomas Yang | Senior Staff Photographer)

Toomey’s got mail: Grad students deliver letters

By Rachel Glasser | News Editor December 7, 2017

The Grinch is best known for stealing Christmas, but he left Whoville and showed up on the doorstep of U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey’s Downtown office Wednesday. It was a blustery day, windy and in the low...

(Illustration by Raka Sarkar | Senior Staff Illustrator)

Editorial: Recognize student debt’s real toll on campus

By The Pitt News Editorial Board September 10, 2017

With grades, a fluctuating social life and life after graduation all weighing heavily on our collective conscience, any college student can tell you they’re no stranger to stress. And according to...

Protestors hold a cutout of Sen. Pat Toomey at a "Tuesday's with Toomey" in February.  (Photo by Anna Bongardino | Assistant Visual Editor)

Editorial: Toomey isn’t listening to constituents

By The Pitt News Editorial Board August 31, 2017

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...

Protestors hold a cutout of Sen. Pat Toomey at a "Tuesday's with Toomey" in February.  (Photo by Anna Bongardino | Visual Editor)

Editorial: Toomey is either lying or misinformed, and it will hurt Pennsylvanians

By The Pitt News Editorial Board June 27, 2017

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...

Bernie Sanders called the GOP health care bill "a barbaric and immoral piece of legislation” at a health care rally at the convention center Saturday. (Photo by John Hamilton/Editor-in-Chief)

Sanders criticizes GOP health care bill at Pittsburgh rally

By Lexi Kennell / Contributing Editor June 25, 2017

If the 1,600 people at Saturday’s health care rally take Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ advice, Republican senators’ phone lines will be busy all week. The former presidential candidate, along with...

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