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Pittsburgh’s public housing agency poised to pick director from Portland

Ivory Mathews left the Home Forward agency in Oregon after a probe of her business travel. She is set to replace Caster Binion, who has led the Housing Authority of the City of…

PublicSource · 10 hrs ago

From ‘screaming into the void’ to quicker turnarounds, Pittsburgh permitting is being transformed

Data analyzed by Pittsburgh’s Public Source suggests that Mayor O’Connor’s pledge to streamline the bureaucracy involved in construction and development has shortened wait times.…

PublicSource · 13 hrs ago

Public Source at 15: Building civic capacity from the ground up

Every day for 15 days, we’re sharing notable impacts, reflections on how our newsroom — and the world — has changed in the last decade and a half, and what we’re thinking about as…

PublicSource · 15 hrs ago

Pittsburgh doesn’t use Flock cameras – but license plate readers are already here

Automatic license plate readers long predate the backlash to Flock's ascendancy, and have operated in Pittsburgh for decades. The city doesn't contract with Flock but some private…

PublicSource · 20 hrs ago

Western Pennsylvania can’t solve its biggest problems until we fix who government listens to

Big money shapes who gets heard long before Election Day. Voter Dollars could give everyday Pennsylvanians a bigger voice in who represents them. The post Western Pennsylvania…

PublicSource · 20 hrs ago

Professor Claude? College unions negotiate for protection against AI teachers and evaluators.

“We’ve seen a pretty rapid effort by universities to adopt AI tools, and with, I would say, much more kind of inconsistent thinking and policy development about guardrails and…

PublicSource · 2 days ago

Affidavit: City Council members and staff led DA to investigate Gainey contracts

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala’s office declined comment on an unsealed request for a search warrant, noting the investigation of the former Pittsburgh mayor’s…

PublicSource · 2 days ago

A new grocer is moving into Squirrel Hill. Its rival says the deal isn’t kosher.

What began as a deal to buy the neighborhood's signature kosher store ended without a sale — and the prospect of a rival business. A rabbinical tribunal is now tasked with finding…

PublicSource · 5 days ago

I look fine, but dealing with chronic illness is my full-time job

I may never find a doctor who can make all of my illnesses disappear. Chronic illness rarely offers that kind of neat ending. But I have found people who remind me that healing…

PublicSource · 6 days ago

As data centers loom, communities need to organize to protect health and environment

Pennsylvania’s recent action on data centers doesn’t change the fact that only diligence and public engagement on the local level can secure residents’ control over the future of…

PublicSource · 7 days ago

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