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07/10/2025

Can you hear the sound of kids playing? Casa San Jose wants their new space in Beechview to serve all youth in the community.

A URA property with a long history of promised development may soon house Casa San Jose’s social and after-school programs for Pittsburgh families.

07/10/2025

Meet Gene Walker, the Pittsburgh Public Schools board president who narrowly held his seat in the recent May election.

A Pittsburgh native, Walker is no stranger to school closures. His own alma mater of Peabody High School closed in 2011. While he was disheartened to see the school close, he said the Obama Academy has been "a really good replacement."

Now, he is leading the school district through a slate of closures and consolidations. He hopes and believes that work "will lead us to a PPS that is not only financially stable and sustainable, but becomes a district where people are attracted back."

Read more at https://www.publicsource.org/gene-walker-career-path-to-public-education/

🖊️ : Lajja Mistry

07/10/2025

Why did Pittsburgh’s school board president survive the election by just 5 votes? Meet Gene Walker, whose political life nearly ended amid school closing plans and transparency concerns.

Gene Walker is a leading supporter of consolidation plans for Pittsburgh Public Schools. Mentoring and hard truths shaped his vision.

07/09/2025

When it comes to increasing national pressure on Pittsburgh’s development landscape, urban policy expert Bruce Katz says: “You’ve got to embrace how volatile this period is.”

Uncertainty looms in the development forecast for Pittsburgh as economic pressures challenge city strengths in research, tech and innovation.

07/09/2025

Our new series “Forecast: Uncertain” explores development challenges across the region as national and global turbulence filters into local life.

First up: developers, business leaders and government officials consider tariffs, rising costs and Downtown decline.

Read more at https://www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-development-faces-uncertainty-in-growing-economic-turmoil/ and stay tuned for the next installment.

🖊️ : Eric Jankiewicz
🖼️ : Illustration by Natasha Khan Vicens
📸 : Stephanie Strasburg

07/09/2025

AI technology is driving demand for federal defense contracts with Pittsburgh firms, but the economic boom adds a new dimension to the city’s affordable housing challenges.

On AI Avenue and Robotics Row, local leaders promote new innovation corridors despite concerns over housing loss and displacement.

07/08/2025

Medicare data reveals the lengthy wait times that patients spend in Pittsburgh emergency rooms, the longest median wait clocks in at a little over four hours at AGH.

'The Pitt' depicts gritty emergency room scenes that are all too real for Allegheny General Hospital, the inspiration behind the HBO drama.

07/08/2025

Up first in our new series “Forecast: Uncertain”: How are economic pressures building across the regional development landscape?

Uncertainty looms in the development forecast for Pittsburgh as economic pressures challenge city strengths in research, tech and innovation.

07/07/2025

Allegheny General Hospital serves as the inspiration for a fictional hospital in “The Pitt.” But the challenges that the emergency room faces are all too real to the doctors, nurses and patients of AGH.https://buff.ly/yiNajqU

“The Pitt” depicts gritty emergency room scenes that are all too real for Allegheny General Hospital, the inspiration behind the HBO drama.

07/06/2025

Federal funding cuts axe millions for Allegheny County as agencies and nonprofits scramble to maintain green infrastructure projects across the region.

Federal funding cuts and EPA regulatory rollbacks rock Allegheny County projects on green infrastructure, climate resilience and clean air protections.

07/06/2025

In response to a new lawsuit at Allegheny County Jail, an organizer at the Abolitionist Law Center called on the jail to “make significant cultural and staffing changes in order to end the violence against incarcerated people.”

An Allegheny County Jail sergeant is at the center of another new lawsuit filed in federal court. He is named in 7 prior cases alleging abuse.

07/05/2025

Without state relief, Pittsburgh Regional Transit will assume cuts to 35% of its countywide services according to a 2026 budget passed on June 27, 2025.

Pittsburgh Regional Transit board approves service cuts and fare hikes in 2026 fiscal year budget as state aid lingers in limbo.