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?
PUBLIC SAFETY
Could Pittsburgh’s proposed gun control bills disproportionately impact black residents?
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“Any ordinance like this… always lands on the backs of young African-Americans,” Rev. De Neice Welch said broadly about gun control laws. “Always.”
Aftermath: Synagogue attack
How some Pittsburgh-area faith leaders have addressed security concerns since the synagogue shooting
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“If we know that xenophobia and Islamophobia and vilification of marginalized and minority communities is less of an issue in America, then people will feel safer. If we know that that’s not the case and we are not moving towards that, then people don’t feel safe.”
MONEY & POLITICS
During five years in office, has Mayor Peduto fulfilled his pledges to Pittsburgh?
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Five years into being mayor, has Pittsburgh seen results from Mayor Bill Peduto’s ideas?
Aftermath: Synagogue attack
Tree of Life trauma victims may find allies in neighborhoods experiencing chronic gun violence
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Experts in trauma care differentiate between sudden violent events, such as the Tree of Life shooting, and chronic forms of violence, such as war zones or ongoing gun violence within neighborhoods. In Pittsburgh, chronic gun violence occurs in some neighborhoods, but not others, and that trauma is disproportionately carried by the city's black communities.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Pittsburgh reveals gun control bills promised after Tree of Life shooting
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Pittsburgh city officials on Friday announced a trio of gun control bills in response to the Oct. 27 shooting deaths of 11 people at Tree of Life synagogue.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Pittsburgh officials pursue a new strategy to push for aggressive gun control measures
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Pittsburgh officials are urging local governments across the country to join them on instituting new gun control laws after the October mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue.
PUBLIC SAFETY
In disciplining cops, Pennsylvania’s standards trail other states
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Because lawmakers gave limited authority to the agency responsible for police certification, Pennsylvania has no oversight over noncriminal findings of misconduct, aside from dishonesty during the certification process.
Aftermath: Synagogue attack
Two Pittsburgh-area mass shooters attended the same high school. Experts say it’s a coincidence, but other commonalities aren’t.
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Both Robert Bowers, who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, and George Sodini, who killed three women and himself at the Collier Township LA Fitness in 2009, attended Baldwin High School. People who study mass shooters say their shared school is a likely coincidence — the men were 10 years apart — but there are other more meaningful markers they share.
Aftermath: Synagogue attack
From Holocaust survivor to Jewish millennials, three generations of a Squirrel Hill family reflect on the Tree of Life shooting
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Avi Baran Munro has lived nearly half her life in Squirrel Hill. Along with her husband, Paul, she’s raised four children there, just blocks away from the Tree of Life synagogue. Her parents, Holocaust survivors, followed the family to Pittsburgh to stay close.
The Oct. 27 massacre at the synagogue was a blow to the entire family.
