The Steelers and the Pirates lit up their empty stadiums in brilliant orange last weekend, but neither the orange glow in the low sky of a North Side night nor the cooperative effort behind it got much traction in the moment.
Overtaken by a global eruption of civic protest, last week’s sixth annual observation of National Gun Violence Awareness Day drew only a fraction of the focus it typically warrants, but there’s good news in this case, good news that just happens to double as the bad news.
Read Gene Collier’s full column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette here.