DEVELOP PGH
A North Side resident’s poem on how change in Pittsburgh looks, feels and sounds
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Celine Barnickel reflects on the developmental changes she's seen throughout Pittsburgh in a poem.
NEWS
Pittsburgh council candidate Quincy Kofi Swatson won’t face charges over non-consensual sex allegation
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A candidate for Pittsburgh City Council who was accused of assaulting a woman and having non-consensual sex with her released a statement late Tuesday indicating that the district attorney has concluded an investigation and won’t be pursuing charges against him.
A spokesman for the Allegheny County District Attorney’s office said the office investigated the allegation and did not find evidence to meet the burden of proof needed to prosecute any criminal charges against council hopeful Quincy Kofi Swatson.
ENVIRONMENT
Have environmentalists lost their battle to thwart the petrochemical industry in Southwest PA?
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With the construction of Shell's ethane cracker plant in Beaver County fully underway, PublicSource spoke to a Shell representative along with seven other people who have different perspectives on the future of our region’s environment and industry.
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.”
DEVELOP PGH
Construction and criticism: The history, mission and inner workings of Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority
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From modern efforts to make Pittsburgh a Rust Belt success story to missteps in urban renewal, the Urban Redevelopment Authority [URA] has played a critical role in rehabilitation efforts in the city. In the seven decades since its establishment, the agency has contributed to the construction and revitalization of homes, businesses and contaminated brownfields
EDUCATION
In charter school bid, Imani Christian Academy looks to become a publicly funded, secular school
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Imani’s charter application appears to follow a trend by other religious schools nationally in recent years. After struggling financially to stay afloat, some have chosen to transform into charter schools to create a steady revenue flow, even though it requires giving up their religious mission.
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.”
After fleeing Guatemala, some Ixil immigrants are seeing Pittsburgh as a destination for a new community
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The Ixil immigrants in Pittsburgh are almost exclusively from Santa Maria Nebaj, often referred to as Nebaj. In 2014, unaccompanied Central American minors had just begun to arrive en masse.
When Manuel was deported from Pittsburgh to Guatemala, he entered the ‘deportation-to-death pipeline’
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Francisco's 23-year-old son had gone out the night before and never returned home. The following day, Francisco's neighbor came knocking on his door to inform him that Manuel had been killed and his body was laying on the side of a road nearby.
