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With cases rising, health-care professionals are urging the legislature to extend the regulatory changes to maximize the number of workers in hospitals and long-term care facilities.
New mothers turn to social media for help during the turbulent early days of parenthood. For Black mothers, that world is fraught with racial tension.
It's a back-to-school process the family is getting reacquainted with after more than a year of remote learning in Pittsburgh Public Schools.
This story was originally published by NEXTpittsburgh, a news partner of PublicSource. NEXTPittsburgh is an online publication about the people advancing the region and the innovative and cool things happening here. Sign up to get NEXTpittsburgh free. Most organizations have experienced profound changes over the last year or so, but few more so than the YWCA Greater Pittsburgh. Angela Reynolds took over as chief executive on Feb.
For the past four years, the Gateway Towers Condominium Association and eight of its owners have been locked in a legal battle over a special fee to replace windows and fix leaky water pipes and pipes moving waste.
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told by the people living them. My high school’s Friday night showing of “Beauty and the Beast” starts in an hour. As Lumiere the candlestick does his sound check, the rest of the cast is waiting onstage for our own. Our lighting designer is running through cues, making the hot stage lights jump from bright white to blue to red and back again. Someone is playing the piano in the green room (probably a “Hamilton” song). I’m in my huge Mrs. Potts costume and I can’t quite figure out how to breathe.
This story was originally published by NEXTpittsburgh, a news partner of PublicSource. NEXTPittsburgh is an online publication about the people advancing the region and the innovative and cool things happening here. Sign up to get NEXTpittsburgh free. The Strip District has had many identities over the years. There were the early industrial days, the wholesale produce days, even an era when the neighborhood dominated Pittsburgh nightlife (Rosebud, Metropol, etc.).
The things that impact me at a university are not things everyone has to be concerned with, and no amount of diversity training has changed that fact in the last 16 years.
The 700,000-square-foot terminal will consolidate ticketing, security checkpoints, baggage claim and a multi-modal complex with a 3,300-space parking garage. It will replace the existing landside building and remove the need for the underground tram.
Medicare and Medicaid are supposed to give us the care we need. Here, they limit options and rip away our ability to meet our basic needs. It's a specific kind of deprivation of services that is all too common, government-sanctioned neglect of one of its most vulnerable populations.
