post-gazette.com - Editorials http://www.post-gazette.com/forum/edt/ Post-Gazette editorials en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Mon, 9 Nov 2009 03:58:54 -0500 15 post-gazette.com http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 Fee frenzy: Coordinate the efforts to make nonprofits pay http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09313/1011884-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml Allegheny County Council last week tossed its own idea into the debate over how to get nonprofit organizations to provide a greater share of funding for government services. Mon, 9 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 The UAW bites back: Ford shouldn't expect charity from its workers http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09313/1011885-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml There was a fair amount of shock at Ford Motor Co. last week when the United Auto Workers turned down a package of contract concessions. Ford executives shouldn't have been surprised, however. Mon, 9 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 H1N1 fiasco: It's time all Americans had access to the vaccine http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09313/1011886-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml It's a good thing that no one from modern Wall Street was on the Titanic when it slammed into the iceberg. Mon, 9 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Asides http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09312/1011516-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml ELECTION DAY last Tuesday was an event for the few, the proud, the voters with the patriotism of Marines. As for the rest, they stayed home in droves. Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500 Signs of haste: The county needs to tread carefully on billboards http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09312/1011517-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml Allegheny County is premature in seeking proposals from firms to install electronic billboards on some of its buildings, roads and rights of way. Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500 LaGrotta gothic: An ex-legislator's scandal comments are too much http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09312/1011518-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml Anyone remember Frank LaGrotta, the former Beaver County legislator who pleaded guilty to putting no-show relatives on his payroll? Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500 Shame on them: A Bedford prosecutor tries an outdated punishment http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011528-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the greatest American writers of the 19th century, would have felt right at home this week in Bedford County. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Home casualties: The Fort Hood tragedy begs for answers http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011529-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml The killing of at least 13 people in the heart of America's military network in Fort Hood, Texas, is very hard to bear. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Buffer zone: Court makes city choose a way to protect women http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011175-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml At first glance, a federal appeals court ruling last week that sent back to a lower court a city ordinance limiting the rights of anti-abortion protesters might seem like a defeat for medical Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Who's in charge?: Defense spending raises a question http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011176-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml President Barack Obama's position on defense spending is hard to understand -- or perhaps, misleading -- at the moment. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 UPMC's call: The under-use claim at Braddock rings hollow http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011177-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml That crashing sound you just heard was UPMC's argument to close its latest hospital falling to pieces on Braddock Avenue. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500