The highest-ranking offices on the Pennsylvania ballot next month are two that most voters know little about. Superior Court and Commonwealth Court are the state's two intermediate appellate benches. (Today)

Southwestern Pennsylvania takes its relationship with Hollywood seriously. It's more complicated than this, but in exchange for state tax breaks and local street closings, the region becomes the happy recipient of jobs and spending delivered by movies with Tom Cruise or Russell Crowe or Batmobiles prowling Pittsburgh. (Today)

Yet we never thought it could happen. Not in Pittsburgh, the home of so much world-class medicine. The city where sheiks and princes come to be healed. The place where relatives and friends drive in from out of state for cancer care, children's surgery and specialty treatment not available where they live. (Yesterday)