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Jul 24, 2024
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who has called for a Senate investigation into the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler County 10 days ago,...
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Jul 23, 2024
As two teams of Secret Service counter-snipers scanned the outer perimeter of Donald Trump’s rally last weekend, they had a crucial blind spot: a stand of large trees that shielded...
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Jul 23, 2024
On the stump in 2022 against a populist Republican in the mold of Donald Trump, Josh Shapiro would often circle back to a version of the same line. He...
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Jul 22, 2024
Since I was a teenager, I’ve loved political conventions. Even with all the spontaneity scrubbed, there’s still a hint of the old stagecraft...
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Jul 22, 2024
Biden’s withdrawal “definitely gives the Democrats a reboot,” one pollster said.
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Jul 18, 2024
The U.S. government has been forcing people to give up their most sensitive biometric information: DNA and the category of people who may be subject to...
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Jul 15, 2024
A day after the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, two of the most basic questions have emerged as the most pressing: why and...
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Jul 15, 2024
Those are gunshots. That’s probably the first thought I can remember after the shooting started. I can’t remember how many. I couldn’t...
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Jul 15, 2024
The Republican National Convention begins Monday against the attempted assassination of the GOP nominee for president and a Pennsylvania delegation both angry and fearful about what...
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Jul 14, 2024
Former President Donald Trump was injured when a shooter opened fire during a campaign rally Saturday in Butler County, killing one person and critically...
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Jul 14, 2024
David Abbot instantly laid on top of his wife, Miranda, when gunfire rang out just minutes into former President Donald Trump’s speech at a rally...
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Jul 5, 2024
This is part two of a series based on data recently obtained via Right to Know requests regarding Pennsylvania’s film tax credit program from...
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Jul 4, 2024
About an hour outside Pittsburgh lies the small city of New Castle, also known as America's fireworks capital. More than a century ago, two companies— Pyrotecnico...
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Jun 28, 2024
Rutgers University pollster Ashley Koning called the debate “probably the nightmare scenario for Democrats.”
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Jun 26, 2024
Monday night, Cory Roma was elected vice president of the Young Democrats of Allegheny County (YDAC) — just days after news circulated that he was...
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Jun 21, 2024
The line that caught my attention in the news story “Simply getting around can be dangerous in some Allegheny County towns,” published on Monday,...
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Jun 21, 2024
This is the first of a two-part series based on data the Post-Gazette recently obtained regarding Pennsylvania’s film tax credit program. May we...
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Jun 18, 2024
I write to express my thoughts on the recent Revitalization Initiative announced by the Allegheny Conference. My company, Hullett Properties, has recently...
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Jun 13, 2024
The children of the 60s are in their 70s. Could seniors back Democrat Biden this fall?
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Jun 10, 2024
Prices remain high, and that means high disapproval ratings for President Biden’s economic stewardship.
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Jun 3, 2024
A block from the Old State House in Boston’s historic city center, workers are preparing to transform the darkened interiors of three vacant office...
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May 31, 2024
For Anthony Angiulli of Murrysville, former President Donald Trump’s conviction on all 34 felony charges by a Manhattan jury in his hush money...
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May 27, 2024
How should we define leadership? Is it innate or learned? How do we distinguish a true leader from a demagogue or a con artist? As a journalist, citizen,...
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May 27, 2024
MURRYSVILLE, Pa. — There is a circle of grass in this Westmoreland County neighborhood that has just enough room for a leafy maple tree to have...
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Apr 26, 2024
People living in rural areas die earlier and at higher rates of common diseases than those in urban centers after adjusting for age and other factors, new research suggests.
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Apr 25, 2024
“There are a significant number who are not going to vote for Donald Trump under any circumstances,” a former GOP congressman said
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Apr 24, 2024
An election that was never in doubt has nonetheless cast a long shadow over the campaign for the presidency as voters in the country’s largest swing...
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Apr 24, 2024
An election that was never in doubt has nonetheless cast a long shadow over the campaign for the presidency as voters in the country’s largest swing...
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Apr 22, 2024
HANOVER, Pa. — This bucolic community graced by rich historic sites, industry and rolling farms — just twenty miles south of the city...
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Apr 18, 2024
After the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, universities with close ties to Middle Eastern governments have faced heightened scrutiny. In February, Texas A&M...
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Apr 5, 2024
Riverfront towns across Western Pennsylvania were left to pick up the pieces Thursday in the wake of severe flooding after days of relentless, heavy rain. The...
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Apr 2, 2024
As the city grapples with a growing homeless population, some local service providers and Pittsburgh city officials have different ideas on solutions,...
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Mar 12, 2024
In an obscure race during an off-year election in a quiet corner of Pittsburgh, a long-simmering political movement that would reshape Pennsylvania politics...
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Mar 11, 2024
The focus on the 24 recruits who graduated from the Pittsburgh police academy last week began before their classes even started — perhaps before...
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Feb 14, 2024
After years of begging multiple gubernatorial administrations and legislative leaders for adequate funding to save and sustain Pennsylvania’s system...
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Feb 8, 2024
Gov. Josh Shapiro’s 2024 budget address, delivered this Tuesday beneath the Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg, offered an opportunity to reset an administration...
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Feb 5, 2024
“I am sick and tired of losing to Ohio.” No, those are not the words of Penn State football coach James Franklin. That’s Pennsylvania’s...
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Feb 5, 2024
Today, Feb. 3, marks the first anniversary of the Norfolk Southern train derailment, which spewed carcinogenic chemicals across the town of East Palestine...
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Jan 31, 2024
What does school choice mean to me? It means having options of how and where my daughters receive their education, whether that be in a traditional brick-and-mortar...
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Jan 29, 2024
Pennsylvania has some of the most restrictive open records laws in America, needlessly slowing or stopping the public from accessing documents and information...
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Jan 15, 2024
Editor’s note: Of all the labels applied to Martin Luther King, Jr. — leader, minister, activist — one that often goes unmentioned is “intellectual.”...
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Jan 8, 2024
Former state representative Sara Innamorato’s Jan. 2 inauguration as Allegheny County Executive, and subsequent Jan. 3 press conference, opened...
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Jan 4, 2024
Over the last 12 years, the Post-Gazette Editorial Board — in its various forms — has had several bones to pick with former Allegheny County...
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Jan 3, 2024
Just months ago, Pennsylvania saluted a police dog named Yoda who heroically took down and neutralized escaped murderer Daniel Cavalcante, allowing law...
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Jan 3, 2024
Growing up in Pittsburgh during the 1970s, I always felt a connection to U.S. Steel. Maybe it was the similarity of the company’s logo to that of...
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Jan 2, 2024
The pandemic forever altered the way American businesses use their offices, especially those in urban downtowns. Nearly four years out from COVID’s...
Jul 24, 2024U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who has called for a Senate investigation into the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler County 10 days ago,...
Jan 31, 2024What does school choice mean to me? It means having options of how and where my daughters receive their education, whether that be in a traditional brick-and-mortar...