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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 Betul Tuncer and Emma Folts 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, 2023June 12, 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

The apartments and homes of Central Oakland as seen from the Schenley Bridge, on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/Public Source)

Pittsburgh’s push for rental registration nixed by appeals court

by Eric Jankiewicz March 17, 2023March 21, 2023

Sarah Gethers sits for a portrait in her apartment on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in Bellevue. If I’m ‘the demographic corporate America wants so desperately,’ why am I constantly sidelined? Writes Gethers in her first person essay. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

GENDER & IDENTITY

If I’m ‘the demographic corporate America wants so desperately,’ why am I constantly sidelined?

by Sarah Gethers March 17, 2023March 19, 2023

FROM THE SOURCE PODCAST

How news and technology are influencing young minds | S4, Ep. 11

by Jourdan Hicks March 15, 2023March 15, 2023

John Weinstein stands at a podium, speaking, while Will Parker stands to his right.

EXECUTIVE DECISION

John Weinstein’s ties to judge, staff emerge in lawsuit amid exec race

by Charlie Wolfson March 15, 2023March 15, 2023