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May 4, 2026
The lack of foot traffic in downtown areas is something many Pennsylvania communities are facing. It’s hard to attract visitors to a place where storefronts are dark and the...
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May 1, 2026
OK, the 2026 NFL Draft was a week ago. It’s time to ask the big question. Was it worth it? That depends on two things: perspective and expectation. According to the NFL, the...
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Apr 29, 2026
Public comment periods are meant to let people talk to the government. Sometimes it’s about actions that are happening or decisions that are pending. Sometimes it’s about...
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Apr 29, 2026
Last year, Pennsylvania took the first steps toward creating the Keystone State version of the Mississippi Miracle of improved childhood literacy. Now,...
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Apr 27, 2026
Chickens are not inherently political, but they can be dragged into politics clucking and crowing. French King Henry IV is believed to be the first to wish “a chicken in every...
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Apr 24, 2026
There is a moment in “The Wizard of Oz” when Dorothy opens the door of her uprooted Kansas cottage and steps from black and white into the glorious technicolor of a new world....
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Apr 23, 2026
It’s been nearly two years since Steelers president Art Rooney II, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, then-Mayor Ed Gainey and a variety of other dignitaries...
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Apr 15, 2026
There always have been elected officials whose appeal defies their demographics. Former U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin spent years as the token Democrat in deep-red West Virginia. Democrat...
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Apr 13, 2026
This editorial is part of an ongoing series entitled Big Ideas for a Better Pittsburgh, in which the Editorial Board collects and proposes new ways for...
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Apr 13, 2026
When you fill out a form to do anything, there is certain information you expect to provide. Name. Address. Phone number or email. Those are the ways you are identified, how your...
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Apr 8, 2026
It would be easy to look at the closure of schools such as Triangle Tech and assume demand for skilled trades is slipping. That isn’t what the data shows. National Student...
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Apr 8, 2026
Governor Josh Shapiro is correct to join 23 other states in challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order that instructs the U.S. Postal Service...
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Apr 6, 2026
Among the few things Americans agree on these days is that housing is too expensive. With a shortfall of at least 3.7 million homes, the obvious solution is to build more....
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Apr 3, 2026
Last month, Philadelphia’s City Council overwhelmingly voted to amend the City Charter’s “resign to run” provision — which, as the name suggests,...
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Mar 26, 2026
One of the most serious structural issues holding back Allegheny County is its politicized, ad hoc property assessment system, which shocks and destabilizes...
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Mar 18, 2026
Pennsylvanians are accustomed to a primary that might not reveal how they feel. After all, Pennsylvania may be a critical state in presidential elections, yet its primary falls late...
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Mar 16, 2026
The average cost of two semesters at a Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education school — the most affordable four-year institutions in the state — comes in at just...
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Mar 13, 2026
Laurel: To redding up. Fox Chapel senior Kabeer Chopra and the volunteers behind Green Bridge 412 are proving that cleaning up the environment can start with one person noticing a...
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Mar 11, 2026
The early returns from Mayor Corey O’Connor’s day-one executive order targeting permitting reform are very encouraging. On Monday, the O’Connor...
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Mar 2, 2026
A capital case in Allegheny County may be delayed because another prosecutor assigned to it is leaving the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office. Assistant District...
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Feb 27, 2026
Real estate development would be much easier if everyone could get land for free — or close to it. Of course there are the expenses of design, site work and construction. There...
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Feb 25, 2026
Tariffs have created economic confusion over the past year. Some don’t really understand what they are or how they impact prices in the U.S. Some support them as an American trade...
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Feb 23, 2026
Pennsylvania lawmakers are embroiled in the annual dance in balancing our collective checkbook — the state budget. At the same time, the Keystone State is offering a tax...
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Feb 20, 2026
It is strange, on the surface, to see that a proposition favored by 83 percent of Americans — including 96 percent of Republicans, 84 percent of independents, and even 66...
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Feb 18, 2026
Pennsylvania’s state government has reduced its investigation of serious financial crime, leaving Keystone State residents more vulnerable to fraudsters...
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Feb 13, 2026
In 1642, King Charles I marched into the House of Commons determined to personally arrest five members of Parliament.
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Feb 12, 2026
Debt and savings are different columns in the same ledger. Any business can tell you that. So can anyone working on their taxes right now. Like blood circulating in the body, the...
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Feb 9, 2026
During Gov. Josh Shapiro’s lengthy and, on occasion, unusually partisan budget address this past Tuesday, one theme attracted significant support...
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Feb 6, 2026
Greenberg, as you probably know, was a 27-year-old first-grade teacher who was found dead in a Philadelphia apartment she shared with her fiancé in 2011. She was stabbed 20...
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Feb 5, 2026
Fewer than three months after last year’s Pennsylvania state budget negotiations ended, this year’s budget process began yesterday with Gov....
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Jan 28, 2026
U.S. Sen. David McCormick is among Republicans calling for a full accounting in the Minneapolis death of Alex Pretti, 37, a Veterans Administration intensive care nurse who was shot...
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Jan 19, 2026
Martin Luther King Jr. received an honorary doctorate in civil law from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne on November 13, 1967, five...
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Jan 15, 2026
In August 2020, Hempfield supervisors approved plans for a 250,000-square-foot home improvement store along Route 30 near Westmoreland Mall. Nearly five years later, the project has...
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Jan 14, 2026
Calls for Mike Tomlin to step down are not new. They tend to surface the same way every time — after an ugly loss, after a season that ends not with hope but with disappointment....
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Jan 5, 2026
Penn State’s Board of Trustees deserves credit for spending more time in public discussion this year than it has in the recent past. After years in which outcomes often were...
May 4, 2026The lack of foot traffic in downtown areas is something many Pennsylvania communities are facing. It’s hard to attract visitors to a place where storefronts are dark and the...
May 1, 2026OK, the 2026 NFL Draft was a week ago. It’s time to ask the big question. Was it worth it? That depends on two things: perspective and expectation. According to the NFL, the...
Apr 29, 2026Last year, Pennsylvania took the first steps toward creating the Keystone State version of the Mississippi Miracle of improved childhood literacy. Now,...
Apr 27, 2026Chickens are not inherently political, but they can be dragged into politics clucking and crowing. French King Henry IV is believed to be the first to wish “a chicken in every...
Apr 24, 2026There is a moment in “The Wizard of Oz” when Dorothy opens the door of her uprooted Kansas cottage and steps from black and white into the glorious technicolor of a new world....
Apr 23, 2026It’s been nearly two years since Steelers president Art Rooney II, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, then-Mayor Ed Gainey and a variety of other dignitaries...
Apr 13, 2026This editorial is part of an ongoing series entitled Big Ideas for a Better Pittsburgh, in which the Editorial Board collects and proposes new ways for...
Apr 13, 2026When you fill out a form to do anything, there is certain information you expect to provide. Name. Address. Phone number or email. Those are the ways you are identified, how your...
Apr 8, 2026Governor Josh Shapiro is correct to join 23 other states in challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order that instructs the U.S. Postal Service...
Apr 6, 2026Among the few things Americans agree on these days is that housing is too expensive. With a shortfall of at least 3.7 million homes, the obvious solution is to build more....
Apr 3, 2026Last month, Philadelphia’s City Council overwhelmingly voted to amend the City Charter’s “resign to run” provision — which, as the name suggests,...
Mar 18, 2026Pennsylvanians are accustomed to a primary that might not reveal how they feel. After all, Pennsylvania may be a critical state in presidential elections, yet its primary falls late...
Feb 25, 2026Tariffs have created economic confusion over the past year. Some don’t really understand what they are or how they impact prices in the U.S. Some support them as an American trade...
Feb 23, 2026Pennsylvania lawmakers are embroiled in the annual dance in balancing our collective checkbook — the state budget. At the same time, the Keystone State is offering a tax...
Feb 20, 2026It is strange, on the surface, to see that a proposition favored by 83 percent of Americans — including 96 percent of Republicans, 84 percent of independents, and even 66...
Feb 18, 2026Pennsylvania’s state government has reduced its investigation of serious financial crime, leaving Keystone State residents more vulnerable to fraudsters...
Feb 13, 2026In 1642, King Charles I marched into the House of Commons determined to personally arrest five members of Parliament.
Feb 9, 2026During Gov. Josh Shapiro’s lengthy and, on occasion, unusually partisan budget address this past Tuesday, one theme attracted significant support...
Jan 28, 2026U.S. Sen. David McCormick is among Republicans calling for a full accounting in the Minneapolis death of Alex Pretti, 37, a Veterans Administration intensive care nurse who was shot...
Jan 19, 2026Martin Luther King Jr. received an honorary doctorate in civil law from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne on November 13, 1967, five...
Jan 14, 2026Calls for Mike Tomlin to step down are not new. They tend to surface the same way every time — after an ugly loss, after a season that ends not with hope but with disappointment....
Jan 5, 2026Penn State’s Board of Trustees deserves credit for spending more time in public discussion this year than it has in the recent past. After years in which outcomes often were...