Pittsburgh-area incumbents Costa, DeLuca, Wheatley win nods for new terms in...
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View ArticlePittsburgh-area incumbents appear to win nods for new terms in Pa. Legislature
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View ArticlePittsburgh-area incumbents appear set to win nods for new terms in Pa....
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View ArticleCNN White House chief correspondent Jim Acosta to speak at Point Park
“Enemy of the People” author to discuss current climate of journalism in an increasingly hostile environment...Read more...
View ArticleWith impeachment proceedings at hand, Point Park University holds an event to...
Students in journalism and political science classes gather to discuss the media’s take on President Trump’s historic impeachment trial in the Senate...Read more...
View ArticleTop religion stories of 2019
Unlike in 2018, Pittsburgh was not the center of the religion-news universe in 2019, for which we can be grateful. And yet there are eerie parallels between last year and this in the annual surveys of...
View ArticleAvonworth grad Caroline Schaper totally ready for launch of Sam Bee's...
The app will raise funds for Democratic party candidates en route to the Iowa caucus...Read more...
View ArticleSummer Vacation
I really hope the midterm elections stick it to cowardly republicans who won't stand up to Trump or defend the rule of law. Disgusting.
View ArticleTranscendent Hemingway
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Spoiler in a used book. Love it. <a...
View ArticleRIP, Brother Patrick Hart
I was sorry to hear the news of the passing of Brother Patrick Hart, who was the last secretary to fellow Trappist monk Thomas Merton and who went on to edit and write works by and about Merton. I...
View ArticleStates of sin
This starts out like it could be funny -- which are the most sinful states. Then you read the methodology, and it's really depressing. Usually lists like this define "sin" the way a certain brand of...
View ArticleSeeking wholeness and holiness
Norma Gentry emerges from her baptism by the Rev. Paul Abernathy on July 14, 2018, at St. Moses the Black Orthodox Church in the Hill District. For some years, I had heard of the work of FOCUS...
View ArticleTwo reckonings over bigotry in Kentucky
Earlier this year, Pittsburgh's Stephen Foster statue was removed amid the nation's wider reassessment of other public art, especially Confederate statues and similar monuments to institutional...
View ArticleThirty years later, 'The Front Runner' explores mystery, fascination with...
Writer and director Jason Reitman says the film speaks more to our public fascination with one man’s downfall than with the man himself....Read more...
View ArticleAlex, what is a Pa. governor's race?
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View ArticleGOP's Scott Wagner tries to distance himself from controversial pastor
Scott Wagner's campaign is sharply denouncing a controversial pastor who gave the invocation at his meet-and-greet campaign event in Pike County this past weekend....Read more...
View ArticleSummer Vacation
I really hope the midterm elections stick it to cowardly republicans who won't stand up to Trump or defend the rule of law. Disgusting.
View ArticleBrewed On Grant: Bald White Guys
Unconventional Braddock Mayor John Fetterman has won the democratic nomination for Lt. Governor and will run with incumbent Governor Tom Wolf in November.
View ArticleA Good Guy With A Gun
The NRA argument that school shooters should be met with school shooters is ridiculous. Let's enact some sensible gun laws. It won't solve all the school massacres (this time the guns were legally...
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