Brandon McGinley

My favorite call wasn’t one I heard live, or even one with an iconic catchphrase. It was in 1992, before my earliest memory, against Chicago in Game...

A friend loves meeting new people, but hates standard-issue small-talk. The usual ice-breaker question — “So what do you do for work?”...

There was very little deliberation in what was supposed to be an exercise in deliberative democracy on Tuesday, as the Pittsburgh City Planning Commission...

About seven months ago, after the beautiful memorial service for former Allegheny County Executive Jim Roddey at the University of Pittsburgh, I wrote...

Watching Jimmy Carter’s state funeral at the Episcopal Church’s National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., felt like viewing a portal to the past....

While I’ve lived almost my entire life in the orbit of the City of Pittsburgh, and the last decade within city limits, I’m a newcomer to studying...

About 25 years ago, my family was vacationing in New Jersey, and my dad and I went golfing. On the way to the course, the car started acting up —...

After Tuesday, there is no going back. Any attempt to recreate the political norms and coalitions of the pre-Trump era will fail. It is now clear that...

I didn’t think I’d be writing this column two years ago, when Trump-endorsed candidates bombed across the country in the midterm elections....

It’s the suburban resident’s nightmare scenario, and it happened in Moon this week. A periodically unhoused person migrates to the suburbs...