PUBLIC SAFETY
Active shooter trainings in PA: What have Allegheny County school districts spent?
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Pennsylvania schools are required to hold security drills. Most schools are avoiding big expenses.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Active shooter drills have become common in Pittsburgh-area schools but mental health effects remain unknown
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With mass shootings on the rise, school districts find themselves with the responsibility to prepare students and staff. But there is little study to how effective drills are and if there are long-term implications.
PUBLIC SAFETY
A look inside the ALICE active shooter training taken by Pittsburgh Public Schools administrators
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Oh, I feel nervous, and I know it’s a drill,’ said one principal, hiding under a desk.
FIRST PERSON
Reporting through trauma: Investigating the opioid crisis while my father was homeless
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From 2017 to 2018, I investigated the opioid crisis in Southwestern Pennsylvania while my father was homeless in Pittsburgh. He was dying in the street as I wrote about others experiencing the same reality.
Low-Wage Living
Low-Wage Living: As workers age, health, savings and fear of being overlooked become top issues
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Aging workers make up a small portion of the national workforce, but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, workers 65 and older are projected to be the fastest growing group from 2016 to 2026.
HEALTH
Mothering the mother: Sister Zita Iwuoha combats black mother mortality in Allegheny County and beyond
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Zita Iwuoha is a midwife whose mission to save black mothers and babies began in Nigeria, but once she realized that black mothers in Allegheny County were facing a similar reality, she began to expand her scope.
Low-Wage Living
Low-Wage Living: KeAnna weathers loss and instability with three children by her side
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In the past six years, KeAnna experienced the deaths of two partners — both heart attacks. She lost housing and couldn’t keep her job in child care while also making sure her own children were cared for. She recently found a job in home health care that pays roughly $7.50 an hour. This is low-wage living.
DEVELOP PGH
In housing authority’s attempt to privatize public housing, missteps bear down on Glen Hazel residents
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“If you ask five questions on the same subject, you get five different answers. It's frightening, it really is.”
Foster Tarver served 49 years as a murder accomplice. Should Pittsburgh’s housing authority deny him housing forever?
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Should a murder conviction disqualify a person from public housing?
How PERSAD Center is dealing with sudden leadership changes and concerns about a no-show policy for its LGBTQ patients
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Under the nonprofit’s “no-show” attendance policy, clients get discharged from services if they miss three appointments in six months. This policy is not new, but PERSAD only began reviewing the policy with patients and asking them to sign it in the fall. And concern over this policy is not the only upheaval occurring at PERSAD.
