Sex abuse scandal exposes toxic power structure

08/23/2018 Ollie Gratzinger | Opinions Editor Following the release of a report detailing sexual abuse by about 300 priests in six Pennsylvania dioceses — including Pittsburgh — shocked readers far and wide have searched for some sort of explanation amid the fallout. There is no way to rationalize the horrors that yielded more than 1,000 child victims over the span of several decades, but on … Continue reading Sex abuse scandal exposes toxic power structure

Whistleblower in the running for Nobel Peace Prize

By Pat Higgins | Asst. Sports Editor Does Edward Snowden deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? Norwegian parliamentarians Snorre Valen and Baard Begar Solhjell think so. The two nominated Snowden for his disclosure about National Security Agency spying, according to a report from Bloomberg on Jan. 29. In a letter, Valen and Solhjell wrote, “The public debate and changes in policy that have followed in the … Continue reading Whistleblower in the running for Nobel Peace Prize