PUBLICSOURCE LIVE
Key takeaways from our interview with Port Authority CEO Katharine Kelleman
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Do you want to learn about the future of public transit in the Pittsburgh area?
VIDEO
Six key video clips on gentrification, East Liberty and Amazon from our interview with filmmaker Chris Ivey
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What’s holding Pittsburgh back? How are city officials addressing gentrification through redevelopment? And what would happen if Amazon were to actually choose Pittsburgh for its second headquarters? In a Facebook Live interview on Wednesday, filmmaker Chris Ivey gave his candid thoughts on these questions and why he’s worried that things aren’t getting better for residents, even as local leaders woo Amazon and paint Pittsburgh as a city of innovation.
Key takeaways from our interview with Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority Interim Executive Director Robert Weimar
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Bob Weimar has been serving as the interim executive director of the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority for almost a year. And he is forging ahead with plans to revamp the organization and tackle the city’s lead issue despite numerous water main breaks and other setbacks, he said in an interview with PublicSource on Wednesday. One of Weimar’s priorities is to change the chemical that PWSA uses to control lead corrosion in its service lines, a move he hopes will drop lead levels down to single digits citywide and buy the organization the time it needs to locate, remove and replace the lead lines. He said Wednesday that he is awaiting approval from the state Department of Environmental Protection [DEP] to make the chemical change, and hopes to add it to PWSA’s systems by the spring. Weimar is taking other changes — including those to PWSA’s governing structure — in stride.
SOCIAL JUSTICE
Hortencia is a Dreamer in Pittsburgh, standing up for the embattled DACA program
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Hortencia Ortiz Reyes is among 800,000 people living in the United States whose lives have been affected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Hortencia recently graduated from high school and is now living in Pittsburgh. She is 18.
PUBLIC SAFETY
In Wilkinsburg, a police officer’s perspective on the toll illegal guns take
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Mark Wilson is a 21-year veteran of the Wilkinsburg Police Department. When violence does erupt in his hometown, Wilson sees up close how the presence of illegal guns escalates the situation. He’s left wondering what pushes someone to take another’s life.
HEALTH
Key takeaways from our in-depth interview with Health Department Director Dr. Karen Hacker
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PublicSource sat down recently with Dr. Karen Hacker, the Director of the Allegheny County Health Department, for an in-depth discussion about the lead crisis, the opioid epidemic, air pollution and more. Here are the key takeaways.
ENVIRONMENT
Video: Facebook Live interview with the Environmental Integrity Project’s Lisa Graves-Marcucci
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Facebook Live interview with the Environmental Integrity Project’s Lisa Graves-Marcucci
EDUCATION
360 Video: Priya is a teen roboticist interested in how robots can revolutionize medicine
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Priya Ray is a member of the Girls of Steel robotics team at Carnegie Mellon University. As part of the all-girl team, 16-year-old Priya and her team members work together to build robots that perform tasks, like picking items up or tossing them.
EDUCATION
Key takeaways from our interview with Superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools Anthony Hamlet
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Closing racial achievement gaps, reducing the number of student suspensions, improving third-grade literacy, including more black students in the gifted program and diversifying the district-wide teaching staff.