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If you are a writer for the Post-Gazette, one of the more depressing features of our Web site is the section that details the most e-mailed stories. As an indicator of public interest, it is enough to make someone like me despair.
Just a little while ag...
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Our growing online division here at the Post-Gazette -- destined to be the main business down the road -- did a wonderful job building an index page that shows just how much coverage we have had of Manfred Honeck's tenure with the Pittsburgh Symphony O...
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Guest Walkabout: Dory Adams
Meet Dory Adams, whose writing below appears on her blog "In This Light" at www.doryadams.com. (The photo was taken by Kevin Scanlon, her husband.)
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The Chinese government has decided to delay the requirement that computer manufacturers install their Green Dam filtering software.
BEIJING - China postponed a plan to require
personal computer makers to supply Internet-filtering software Tuesday,
retreat...
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A military coup d'etat in Honduras Sunday echoed the bad old days of Latin America when such changes of government were common.President Manuel Zelaya was grabbed by soldiers in the presidential palace and carted off to neighboring Costa Rica. He was quic...
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Hollow words. That's all the assurances by the Downtown Hilton's owners will be unless Pittsburghers see contractors hard at work to finish the hotel's renovation.The on-again, off-again $25 million project is an eyesore ready to give a bad first impressi...
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The infamous case of Bernard L. Madoff came to an end, for him at least, yesterday when he was sentenced to an appropriate 150 years in prison in U.S. District Court in New York.Mr. Madoff, 71, is a formerly highly respected, successful operator of an inv...
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According to many economists, the Federal Reserve Board caused the recession we are now in. For years, it inflated money and credit, leading to an unsustainable increase in housing prices, a financial bubble whose inevitable bursting has devastated the ec...
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I wish to express my sincere thanks to the Post-Gazette for the editorial about live pigeon shoots ("Bird Brains: Why Shoot a Live Pigeon When Clay Would Do?" June 24). Pennsylvania is the last state to openly practice pigeon shoots. Forty-five of the sta...
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Regarding "Bird Brains: Why Shoot a Live Pigeon When Clay Would Do?" (June 24): I wanted to thank you for bringing this issue to your readers' attention. The editorial hit this right on the head -- is this a test of skill or just an excuse to pointlessly ...
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A large parade went through the heart of Downtown recently; three blocks of Liberty Avenue were blocked off for a massive street festival with two stages, vendors and thousands of people wandering about. Politicians including Dan Frankel and Dan Onorato g...
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I would be very interested to know how much government money was spent trying to keep Iron City Brewing open. In addition to the unpaid city water bill ("Water Authority Wants Iron City to Pay Debt," June 13), I have no doubt that the cost to the taxpayer...
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Following up on recent articles and letters about World War II veterans, it should be noted that the Merchant Marine branch suffered the highest rate of fatalities of any branch of service ever during that war. One of every 26 Mariners who served lost the...
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I would like to congratulate and thank the Post-Gazette on its June 9 editorial "Be a Mentor." As the chief executive officers of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh, I was pleased to see such a positive message in your paper. While your editor...
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Jeff Goldblum pronounced himself dead a few minutes ago on "The
Colbert Report," after Stephen Colbert played a portion of a New
Zealand news show that reported the actor had died. Colbert argued with
Goldblum, standing onstage at the "Report," that if b...
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G4 network's "Attack of the Show" has parodied Billy Mays often enough over the years, but usually in good-natured fashion. With news of the all-star pitchman's death, "AOTS" hosts Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn paid tribute to "the most memorable salesman...
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One afternoon last fall, after visiting the new Carnegie Library branch at Centre and Kirkpatrick in the Hill, I looked down the street and saw "R. COOK" on the side of the old store.
I had visited Robert Cook there several times, starting in 1995 when I ...
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I am back from my week of furlough. In 40 years in this business, I have been hired and fired but never furloughed.
It seemed to me like a rehearsal for eventual retirement. I went to East 'N Park and was called "sweetie," which decidedly I am not. I mowe...
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Mount Washington has been establishiung the city's fifth great park for several years, but it has a cumbersome name: Grand View Scenic Byway Park.
An emerald ring around Mount Washington and Duquesne Heightrs, incorporating all the more formal parks an...
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The final piece of my coverage of the Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra's tour to China ran Sunday -- a much more general look at
just why Western classical music has become so popular in China.
Obviously, I don't answer the question; I am trying to bring up...
