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Water, water everywhere … The fouling of Toledo’s water supply is an environmental game changer
It's one of those events when the economic, political and social costs of pollution hit home hard.
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Maureen Dowd / George W. writes about H.W., the dad whose advice he ignored
I can’t wait to read the book W. won’t write.
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The crooked flight of the F-35
The planes have been so unreliable that at various points they’ve been forbidden from flying at night, in the rain, too fast and too steep.
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My advice to Abu, the new caliph of the Islamic State
If you want to rule for 1,000 years, here are nine things you shouldn’t do.
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George F. Will / If only Sherrod Brown was a woman
Then Democrats would be swooning over the Ohio senator, but instead it's all about Clinton and Warren.
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E.J. Dionne Jr. / Can voters change the GOP? Conservatism is fine; obstructionism is not
Last week’s legislative commotion could change the political winds as it put the cost of the GOP flight from moderation into stark relief.
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The Legacy of Richard Nixon: He shall live in infamy
He left a legacy of enduring cynicism, for which he deserves to remain forever unforgiven, argues PG executive editor David Shribman.
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The Legacy of Richard Nixon: He got big things done
His historic achievements overwhelm his freak show of abuses, argues journalist and biographer John Aloysius Farrell.
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Reduce Pittsburgh’s hidden tax on infrastructure
You’ve been paying it for but didn’t know it, explains transportation investor Henry Posner III.
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The story of America: It’s all there in the National Baseball Hall of Fame
Former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw takes us on a tour of Cooperstown, and American history
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Stop with the Jew/Muslim stereotypes
It’s time for some radical empathy between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Who’s your boss? It’s hard to tell as more and more companies outsource almost all their jobs
It allows them to escape responsibility, lower wages and fend off pressure to improve working conditions.
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Cutting Edge / Robbing UPMC, Obama mocks business and more ...
News ideas / Sharp opinions
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Running away from Obama
Democrats are distancing themselves from the president across the country, even in blue states
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The Next Page / Fritz Ostermueller, beaned by Hollywood
Richard ‘Pete' Peterson tells the story of the Pirates pitcher unfairly cast as a racist in the movie ‘42.’
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Saturday Diary / The moments we carry
“I’ll remember the moments of vulnerability,” I told my friend.
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Saturday Poem / Just Sayin’
I don’t want to sell / toothpaste dog food condoms / flat screen tvs ...
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Sarah Palin could make a unique contribution to society, but she won’t
She could draw attention to families dealing with kids who have disabilities like her son Trig.
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Ride-sharing's great, but only with adequate insurance
Last week, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission issued a unanimous order that squarely and fairly resolved the issues that have come
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Gail Collins / Republicans shun the I-word even as they pursue I-lite
The possibility of actual impeachment is not something that keeps Barack Obama up at night.
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Obama has presided over a moral and strategic disaster in Syria
He has neither stopped the slaughter nor prevented the rise of jihadi armies.
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Keeping my kids safe in Gaza: One wrong decision, and I will lose them
They keep asking questions: Will we die, too? Why do they hate us? Don’t they have children?
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The GOP's idea candidates: 2016 will see the strongest Republican field in a generation
The challenge now for conservative policy fans, though, is that groundbreaking notions must get through the congressional permafrost.
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David Brooks / The Arabs’ 30-year war
It’s amazing how much of the discussion of the Gaza war is based on the supposition that it is still 1979.
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Preserve Pennsylvania's trees to slow climate change
The 2,000-acre forest I manage with my family in Centre County has been in my family since 1943 when my grandfather, Carey Shoemaker,
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Going, going ... gone: Religious radicalization is driving Christians from their homes
Islamic extremists in the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa are emptying formerly Christian cities and neighborhoods.
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Proposed EPA rules threaten Pennsylvania manufacturing
Pennsylvania is producing a diverse energy mix, driving a manufacturing comeback. Proposed federal regulations would put jobs at risk.
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Switching places: The GOP is now the party of reform
As conservatives found when social issues seemed to favor them, there are dangers in seeming the cultural aggressor.
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Getting girls into school is the global civil rights issue of our time
We seek zero child labor, zero child marriage, zero discrimination against girls and zero exclusion from education.
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Local immigration policies proliferate
The kids are coming over the border but Congress still won’t be taking up immigration reform this year.
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Paul Ryan’s new clothes
Paul Ryan is counting on this: Because he says he wants to preserve a safety net, speaks with concern about poor people and put out a 73
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Turn workers into capitalists; it's the only way to really tackle inequality
Raising taxes on the rich and other typical proposals aren't going to work, argues business professor Joseph R. Blasi.
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Teach the three Rs … plus P for psychology
Children need to know how their minds and feelings operate, explains Pittsburgh psychiatrist Marnin E. Fischbach.
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Is the Pennsylvania health department fracking-phobic?
Its actions don’t instill confidence that it is protecting us, write nurses RUTH McDERMOTT-LEVY and NINA M. KAKTINS.
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Yesterday’s future: Let's go back a half-century to the can-do dreamscape of the New York World’s Fair
Vast forces. Man’s work. Philosophy. Life. Knowledge. Power. Nothing was unreachable back then.
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Confessions of a phone monkey: Today's politicians spend most of their time dialing for dollars
They told me, here’s the the phone, now get busy, recalls one-time electoral candidate DAVID BOLING
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Rick Perry’s border showdown: The Texas governor turns himself into an action figure for the cameras
He deploys the Texas Natural Guard to ... do what exactly?
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Cutting Edge / Hillary Clinton's vacuous non-campaign, treating the kids at the border like enemies and more ...
Drill, baby, drill
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Get finance reform right: The U.S. and Europe need to get on the same page
Last week marked the fourth anniversary of Dodd-Frank financial reform, the most sweeping since the Great Depression. To avoid another 2008-
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The Next Page: How the outbreak of World War I affected Pittsburgh‘s Germans and their Downtown church
German Evangelical Protestant Church members tried to balance emotional connection to their homeland with loyalty to their new country.
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Paul Krugman / Left Coast rising: California proves conservatives wrong
The states, Justice Louis Brandeis famously pointed out, are the laboratories of democracy. And it’s still true.
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First Person / The fabric of my life: I’m leaving my memories in a quilt, not in the Cloud
I’m old school, belonging to a generation that still likes to hold things in our hands.
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Saturday Diary / My summer fling with a moocher
I was excited about the encounter, but also not completely comfortable that I had cozied up to an animal I never really cared for.
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Saturday Poem / Courtship
The curtain hides one window, / the other bare. / Shade covers one eye ...
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Charles Krauthammer / Inert Obama seems to think being on the right side of history is enough
From the immigration crisis on the Mexican border to the Islamic State rising in Mesopotamia, Barack Obama seems totally detached.
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Putin isn’t panicking: The downing of Flight 17 is just a misstep in his wider war on the West
If he has to cede a little on Ukraine, no big deal; he sees himself as winning.
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