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Snow days teach kids more than screens ever could
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
February 1, 2026
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Some of my favorite childhood memories were the wintertime days when I'd wake up and see the flakes gently falling, and then rush t...
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What cities lose when they lose their newspapers
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
January 21, 2026
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In my parents' basement there's a yellowed page of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette with a feature photo of me on my father's shoulders ...
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Democrats will regret trying to oust Sen. John Fetterman
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
October 30, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The Democratic Party's biggest problem is that too many people see its adherents as censorious, inquisitorial, joyless, gatekeeping...
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Sidney Crosby is a remarkable man
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
October 13, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — If Sidney Crosby had been born in the Middle Ages, I suspect he would have become a monk. He prizes excellence above all else, yet ...
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America the beautiful, flawed and complicated
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
September 29, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In a seventh season episode of "Frasier," Frasier and his family pile into a Winnebago to attend a New Year's Eve bash in Idaho. At...
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Can we ever have peace again?
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
September 14, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The Spanish Civil War is distinctive, even among other civil wars, for its barbarism, and in particular the personal nature of the ...
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