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Apr 11, 2025
A bid by Pittsburgh City Councilman Bob Charland to appeal to Gov. Josh Shapiro for an official emergency declaration to battle trash and illegal dumping...
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Apr 10, 2025
Pennsylvania’s funding structure for homecare for older and disabled adults puts the commonwealth at a disadvantage with neighboring states, while...
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Apr 9, 2025
A proposal to share a superintendent between two small (and shrinking) Beaver County school districts highlights the challenges facing small districts,...
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Apr 4, 2025
Pittsburgh has some of the most impressive, useful and marketable natural assets of any city in America. That begins with its rivers, and in recent years,...
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Mar 24, 2025
Pennsylvania is experiencing one of the commonwealth’s periodic crises of transportation funding, and this time public transit is under the greatest...
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Mar 19, 2025
New population data from the American Community Survey, which produces annual demographic estimates between the decennial censuses, produced a mixed bag...
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Mar 19, 2025
In one of his first major policy proclamations as governor in February 2023, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced not only that he was extending his predecessor’s...
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Mar 7, 2025
While there’s more than enough dysfunction to go around in the Gainey administration, as this week’s resignation of Acting Police Chief Christopher...
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Mar 4, 2025
Pittsburgh needs to grow to thrive. Unfortunately, it is currently not growing, and there is no shared strategy for growth. Therefore the city and its...
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Mar 3, 2025
Three men allegedly tried to steal a mayor’s race using mail votes.
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Feb 28, 2025
Pennsylvania’s rich oil history and the explosion of shale gas drilling over the last 15 years have brought more than fossil fuels to the surface:...
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Feb 26, 2025
A recent report from Auditor General Tim DeFoor, a Republican, has found that Pennsylvania’s cyber charter schools, deploying an archaic tuition...
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Feb 20, 2025
A new audit of the Allegheny County Office of the Public Defender (OPD) by County Controller Corey O’Connor (who is also running for Mayor of Pittsburgh)...
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Feb 17, 2025
Pennsylvania’s annual, acrimonious budget season will take place this year under far more uncertain conditions than usual, with skyrocketing Medicaid...
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Feb 14, 2025
When a person moves to a new region, or encounters a new medical condition that requires a specialist, one question is top-of-mind: Where can I find a...
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Feb 13, 2025
After the disastrous tenure of former Pittsburgh Police Chief Larry Scirotto, City Council must take a deliberative approach to vetting Mayor Ed Gainey’s...
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Feb 12, 2025
On Aug. 14, 2021, Russian authorities arrested Oakmont native Marc Fogel, a teacher who had done several stints educating American ex-pats in Moscow, for...
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Feb 10, 2025
The Greensburg Volunteer Fire Department is in need of more firefighters, and to increase recruitment, they’ve turned to electronic signs. After...
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Feb 3, 2025
Last Tuesday, the Pittsburgh City Planning Commission failed in its duty to provide independent guidance to City Council regarding massively consequential...
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Jan 31, 2025
A new law barring healthcare noncompete agreements from restricting dismissed healthcare workers represents an important protection for these employees,...
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Jan 22, 2025
Mayor Ed Gainey’s “announcement” of a “commitment” by nonprofit Highmark Health to make annual payments to the...
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Jan 17, 2025
A legal quagmire between West Virginia landowners and Diversified Energy Corp., a company focused on buying up and profiting from old oil and gas wells,...
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Jan 16, 2025
A bizarre press conference held this Monday by Lourenco Goncalves, CEO of Ohio-based steelmaker Cleveland Cliffs, further underscored the imprudence of...
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Jan 9, 2025
Pennsylvania’s tax burden on residents is one of the most regressive in the nation, with poorer families paying a much larger share of their income...
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Jan 9, 2025
The crowds of shoppers who once made the street a premier commercial corridor aren’t likely to come back.
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Jan 8, 2025
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) is undertaking long-overdue updates to its toll collection system that will more accurately and efficiently...
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Jan 7, 2025
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) is undertaking long-overdue updates to its toll collection system that will more accurately and efficiently...
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Jan 2, 2025
Pittsburgh saw a significant drop in shootings and homicides between 2023 and 2024, signaling a return to levels that were normal before the numbers spiked...
Apr 11, 2025A bid by Pittsburgh City Councilman Bob Charland to appeal to Gov. Josh Shapiro for an official emergency declaration to battle trash and illegal dumping...