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For police chief, Gainey picks Scirotto, who was fired from Fort Lauderdale job amid diversity push

by Charlie Wolfson, Eric Jankiewicz and Rich Lord May 3, 2023May 3, 2023

From left, Kia Foster, of Penn Hills, Jasmine “Happy Feet” Thomas, of East Liberty, team manager Yvette Harrison, of Wilkinsburg, Sandra “Ma Duke” Douglass, of the Hill District, and coach Haywood “Cheddar Melt” El, of Wilkinsburg, come together at the end of practice for their Wilkinsburg Alive and Kicking Kickball Team on April 26 at Whitney Park in Wilkinsburg. Games start on Sundays in June, and are broadcast on YouTube. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Points of Pride Wilkinsburg

Kicking in the right direction

by Jourdan Hicks April 28, 2023April 29, 2023

Jennie Liska, left, and Halle Stockton will serve as executive directors of PublicSource, the board leadership announced on Monday, April 24, 2023. Liska leads revenue and operations, while Stockton is editor-in-chief.

Inside our Newsroom

PublicSource moves to dual-executive director leadership model

by Rich Lord April 24, 2023April 24, 2023

U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works consists of 32 separate property parcels in the City of Clairton, assessed by Allegheny County at $10.7 million. The steelmaker is appealing all of the assessments, causing concern for the finances of the city and the Clairton City School District. (Photo by Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource)

To thrive, steel industry must go from rusty to green, per report

by Quinn Glabicki April 18, 2023April 18, 2023

Sharon Gregory, left, of Penn Hills, wipes tears at the conclusion of the Restorative Justice Rededication Ceremony for Bethel AME Church as she stands arm in arm with Janet Lee Patterson, right, who was married at the site, on Friday, April 14, 2023, at the former location of the legendary Lower Hill District church. “To see a time such a this warms my heart, to hear it is time, the time is now to address all the issues that are before us,” said Gregory, whose family lived in the Hill as she grew up and played there. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Penguins, developer and Pittsburgh’s oldest Black church announce deal, but not details

by Eric Jankiewicz April 14, 2023April 16, 2023

Paloma Del Toro, a junior at Carnegie Mellon University, sits for a portrait in Baker Hall on March 23, 2023. Del Toro started at a community college but transferred to CMU, taking out about $20,000 total. That debt would be wiped out under President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Student loan forgiveness faces an uncertain future. What does that mean for Pittsburghers?

by Emma Folts and Betul Tuncer April 6, 2023April 6, 2023

Kendall Pelling, left, Rising Tide Partners’s executive director, and Dee Levy, one of the organization’s Section 8 clients, stand outside of Ms. Levy’s Hazelwood home on Saturday, April 1, 2023. Rising Tide, a non-profit assisting people in low-income housing, is trying to work with the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh to secure back payments on Section 8 vouchers for their clients like Levy. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Section 8 sold short: Pittsburgh housing authority’s mishandling of vouchers repels landlords, imperils tenants

by Eric Jankiewicz April 5, 2023April 6, 2023

The teens featured in the From the Source podcast Season Four

FROM THE SOURCE PODCAST

Youth voices unleashed: From the Source finale | S4, Ep. 12

by Jourdan Hicks March 29, 2023March 29, 2023

Mayor Ed Gainey, center, takes the podium surrounded by elected officials to answer questions about challenging the tax-exempt status of 26 Pittsburgh properties in a press conference at his office on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, in the City-County Building in Downtown. The push is part of a new legal strategy to root out tax-exempt properties in Pittsburgh that shouldn’t qualify for exemption under Pennsylvania law. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Local Government

Gainey lines up tax-exempt challenges, including bid to tax some UPMC-owned properties

by Charlie Wolfson March 28, 2023March 29, 2023

Along the Monongahela River, Braddock Avenue runs between train tracks and U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Works, which occupies parts of Braddock, North Braddock, East Pittsburgh and North Versailles. (Photo by Quinn Glabicki/Publicsource)

In Braddock, imagining environmental justice for a ‘sacrifice zone’

by Quinn Glabicki March 27, 2023March 24, 2023