post-gazette.com - Editorials http://www.post-gazette.com/forum/edt/ Post-Gazette editorials en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:44:14 -0500 15 post-gazette.com http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 The Gates grant: City schools have an opportunity and a challenge http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09327/1015594-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml A $40 million teacher-effectiveness grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is more than a feather in the cap of the Pittsburgh Public Schools and the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Oprah's ride: The talk-show icon calls an end to her run http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09327/1015595-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml When Oprah Winfrey told her audience last week that she would end her daily show in 2011, after 25 years as the undisputed queen of daytime talk, she wasn't the only one to get teary-eyed. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Hazard zone: Council is making mischief on city planning http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09327/1015596-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml Two things that are not needed in city government are politics and bureaucracy. Yet more of both are likely to follow if zoning changes proposed in City Council last week are approved. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Asides http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015222-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml DAWN CREEPS over the mountains one sunbeam at a time. And sanity comes to the selling of beer more conveniently in the Pittsburgh area one Giant Eagle at a time. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Fat and fact: No pride attaches to being overweight or obese http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015223-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml Heavy-set Americans are starting to throw their weight around in the health-care reform debate. If that sounds ridiculous, it's because it is. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Low-key leaders: The EU chooses competency over flash http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015226-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml Representatives of the 27 countries of the European Union chose respected but low-profile leaders Thursday as president of the European Council and chief foreign minister. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Jobs at risk: A phony wage floor could cost Pittsburgh http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015227-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml It was a bad idea in 1997, and it's a bad idea now. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Diplomatic dividend: Obama's Asian trip may produce benefits later http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014861-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml To read the headlines there is no reason to believe President Barack Obama achieved a lot during his trip to East Asia, with stops in Japan, Singapore, China and South Korea. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 School summit: Homeless children deserve an education, too http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014862-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml You might call them the invisible 600. That's the estimated number of children in Allegheny County without permanent housing, about half of whom are school-aged. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Store vacancy: The Hill shops again for a grocery operator http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014863-192.stm?cmpid=editorials.xml Not every cancellation of a proposed store is big news. But the announcement by Kuhn's Market that it was dropping plans to build a full-service grocery in the Hill District was. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500