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Pennsylvania needs to spend $5.4B to close gap between rich and poor schools, Dem report says

by Stephen Caruso of Spotlight PA January 13, 2024January 14, 2024

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Innamorato brings ‘new day’ to Jail Oversight Board, but deep issues remain at lockup

by Charlie Wolfson January 4, 2024January 6, 2024

Sara Innamorato on stage speaking at a podium and smiling

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Innamorato raises minimum wage for county employees, mirroring law Fitzgerald vetoed

by Charlie Wolfson January 3, 2024January 3, 2024

Woman in large office sorts mail ballots .

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As 2024 election approaches, voting officials worry Pa. isn’t prepared for misinformation

by Kate Huangpu of Spotlight PA January 3, 2024January 2, 2024

The family of new Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato stands with her for a photo after her historic inauguration for the role on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2023, at the Byham Theater in downtown Pittsburgh. From left is Innamorato’s great uncle, Walter Gardner, her mother, Kim Innamorato, Innamorato herself, her niece, Olive, 2, and her sister, Nicole Schaffer. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

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Innamorato sworn in as Allegheny executive, asking county not to fear change

by Charlie Wolfson January 2, 2024January 3, 2024

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Innamorato faces an Allegheny County Council that clashed with her predecessor

by Charlie Wolfson January 2, 2024January 2, 2024

Dave Lettrich, executive director of the street outreach group Bridge to the Mountains, comforts Caydee, a woman experiencing homelessness, on Dec. 21 during a Downtown candlelight vigil, organized by Pittsburgh Mercy’s Operation Safety Net, to remember 23 people known to have died while unhoused in Pittsburgh in the past year. The previous year, there were 13. Homelessness is now "at a different level of crisis, and we’re going to have to figure out who we are – maybe before we really figure out what to do,” said Dr. Jim Withers, founder of the Street Medicine Institute. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Inside our Newsroom

In 2023, Pittsburgh and Allegheny county news overflowed — and the shelters did, too

by Jamie Wiggan and Rich Lord December 29, 2023May 8, 2024

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey, Krysia M. Kubiak, chief legal officer and city solicitor, and Jen Gula, director of finance and treasurer for the city, walk past a map of the city’s tax-exempt property after announcing a review of those parcels on Jan. 24, at the mayor’s City-County Building offices in Downtown.

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Pittsburgh leaders have long failed to attract payments from nonprofits. How did a smaller city lock in $220 million?

by Charlie Wolfson December 21, 2023December 24, 2023

A group of people sitting at a table as a person talks to them via video.

Decisions loom over PPS as board passes deficit budget

by Lajja Mistry December 20, 2023December 24, 2023

Monica Ruiz, Anthony Coghill and Daniel C. Conlon

Beechview Points of Pride

Latino immigrants are reshaping Beechview but lack voting power — for now

by Charlie Wolfson December 14, 2023December 13, 2023