Brandon McGinley

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Democratic U.S. Sen. John Fetterman has a higher net approval rating among Republicans — and a much worse net approval rating among Democrats — than his GOP colleague, U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick. That’s according to last week’s Quinnipiac University poll, and it’s all you need to know to get that this is a very weird moment in Pennsylvania politics. The Fetterman case also points to an apparent paradox in American politics more generally. People overwhelmingly express dissatisfaction with the political system broadly, and with...

The woeful underfunding of the Allegheny County pension system is due in part to the chronic underperformance of the system's investments.

Bill Peduto thinks the future of America may be determined in England — by his friend Andy Burnham, new prime minister of the United Kingdom.

Every part of my lunch today was grown in my backyard — well, except the pasta, though we'd plant a pasta tree if we could.

Until recently, the Allegheny County pension crisis was a chronic but subterranean concern — something politicos and government experts were familiar

It was a perfectly Pittsburgh evening at PNC Park: the sun had tucked behind the first-base grandstand; the skyline was lighting up; and the Pirates were floundering against the Diamondbacks.

My older kids' favorite scene in the 2010 Christopher Nolan dream-based film “Inception” is when Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character is trying, unsuccessfully, to deal with snipers by using an assault rifle.

Downtown Pittsburgh is overbuilt, especially for office space, and the market by itself does not support residential redevelopment.

The United States Senate has famously been called “the world's greatest deliberative body.” Unsurprisingly, because it is also the world's most

I recently took a tour of the Bob O'Connor Golf Course (“The Bob”) and the Arnold Palmer Learning Center in Schenley Park with Eric Amato, executive director of First Tee Pittsburgh.