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For me, 9/11 is a core memory. For my kids, it’s history
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
September 11, 2026
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Whatever the demographers say, I believe the line between millennials and Gen Z is whether or not you have a working memory of Sept...
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How measles got political
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
September 6, 2026
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In 1982, C. Everett Koop became surgeon general of the United States. His unusual appearance — bright bowties and a mustache-less f...
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The fortunes of W.Pa. and its Ohio peers may be reversing
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
August 28, 2026
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — “I’m sick and tired of losing to friggin’ Ohio!” Thus exclaimed Gov. Josh Shapiro during his 2024 budget address, repeating a refra...
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The politics of Josh Shapiro’s transformation on data centers
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
August 23, 2026
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The only two times I’ve seen Gov. Josh Shapiro in the flesh, he was extolling AI and data centers as critical to Pennsylvania’s eco...
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The curious case of John Fetterman
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
July 22, 2026
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Democratic U.S. Sen. John Fetterman has a higher net approval rating among Republicans — and a much worse net approval rating among...
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Does anyone really know what they’re doing?
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
July 20, 2026
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In an obituary in The Atlantic for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, Robert Fontaine relates the following quotation from the late Republic...
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America, the beautiful story
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
July 4, 2026
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — When then-U.S. Sen. JD Vance accepted the vice-presidential nomination at the 2024 Republican National Convention, he said all the ...
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