Grad student unionization vote declared inconclusive
By Neena Hagen, Senior Staff Writer
April 26, 2019
The Pitt Graduate Student Organizing Committee’s three-year unionization campaign led to a final vote last week meant to determine whether or not the university's graduate student population wanted a union. But after the ballot count was revealed today, they’ll have to wait a little while longer. ...
Gallery: 2019 SGB Election
By Hannah Heisler and Thomas Yang
February 20, 2019
Zechariah Brown will serve as president of Pitt’s Student Government Board during the 2019-20 school year, after winning 62 percent of the vote against Albert Tanjaya Tuesday. Brown said he felt “grateful and thankful and overwhelmed” when Katie McLaughlin, chair of SGB’s Elections Committee,...
SGB debate funding for student event
By Madeline Gavatorta | Staff Writer
February 14, 2018
During Student Government Board’s weekly public meeting Tuesday night, the board had its first divided vote of the 2017-2018 school year. Executive Vice President Zuri Kent-Smith and board member Ami Fall opposed the funding of the Students for Liberty and Engineering Business Administration event, ...
Editorial: PA ballot question doesn’t solve property tax problem
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 9, 2017
If you voted Tuesday in Pennsylvania’s election, you were presented with an interesting ballot question — should the state legislature allow local taxing authorities to exempt 100 percent of any family’s primary residence value when collecting taxes? Pennsylvania voted yes by a margin of 54 to 46 percent, effe...
Respect Catalan referendum, for democracy’s sake
By Ben Sheppard and Christian Snyder | The Pitt News Staff
October 12, 2017
Voters tried to take to the polls in Catalonia Oct. 1 for a landmark independence referendum in the Spanish autonomous community — but the day ended in chaos. Spanish police brought in from outside Catalonia by the Spanish government injured more than 800 Catalan citizens in conflicts across the regio...
Gov. Wolf already abandoning campaign pledges?
By TNS
January 28, 2015
Hillary Clinton, right, campaigning for then-gubernatorial candidate and current Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf, left, in October, 2014.
President Barack Obama Delivers Statement On Syria
By Kristoffer Tripplaar / MCT Campus
September 5, 2013
President Barack Obama, joined by Vice President Joe Biden, delivers a statement on Syria in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., Saturday, August 31, 2013. (Kristoffer Tripplaar/Pool/Abaca Press/MCT)