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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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In praise of the ordinary life
Comment & Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
September 1, 2025
The children were gunned down in two places everyone should be safe: school and church. Right away, we tried to find an angle. Was the Minneapolis sch...
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Culture of homeownership is slipping away
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
August 18, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A friend who develops affordable housing in and around Pittsburgh once told me about a young woman who was interested in buying a s...
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Take away your kids’ screens to save their summers
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
August 4, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — As an adult, I've somewhat soured on summer. I love the summer rituals, like cookouts and Kennywood, but by mid-July I start lookin...
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McCormick summit shows that leaders matter
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
July 20, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — It's not a coincidence that the person who delivered the biggest economic development coup in recent Pittsburgh history, and finall...
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