Problems at Pittsburgh’s Shuman Juvenile Detention Center reflect larger issues in the integrity of the juvenile-justice system.
“... This facility and every facility has a responsibility to ensure that young people in their care are safe and not subject to violence.”
By Haley Frederick
Tags: News, Crime, Shuman Detention Center, Tiffany Sizemore-Thompson, Richard Gordon, Michael Yonas, Jessica Feierman, Video
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra marks another year of Holiday Pops
“There will be a couple of fun surprises that you don’t want to miss.”
Tags: Holiday Guide, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, PSO, Highmark Holiday Pops, entertainment, festive soundtrack, Winter Wonderland, christmas tree, Chanukah Lights, Andrés Franco
Affordable-housing advocates challenge Pittsburgh City Council on Housing Opportunity Fund inaction
Tags: Daniel Lavelle, David Greve, Celeste Scott, realty transfer tax, Bill Peduto, affordable housing, Penn Plaza, Charlene Haislip, Realtors Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh, Housing Opportunity Fund. Pittsburgh City Council
In the year since Trump was elected, Pittsburgh college students have worked to find common ground
“I think it also as a result fostered a larger sense of community than I have ever felt in all of my life.”
Tags: News, college students, anti-Trump march, Oakland, DUnited, Women’s Empowerment Week, Mental Health Awareness Week
Allegheny County residents ask Board of Health to address their “toxic neighbor,” Clairton Coke Works
Tags: Clairton Coke Works, U.S. Steel, Allegheny County, Board of Health, William Youngblood, PennEnvironment, PennFuture, Braddock, Monaca, EPA, pollution, environment, Ned Ketyer, Jacquelyn Bonomo, Lisa Minetti
Amidst cuts to ACA resources, health-insurance marketplace enrollment period to begin Nov. 1, end Dec. 15
Tags: ACA. Obamacare, Donald Trump, Erin Ninehouser, Tom Wolf, Affordable Care Act, health insurance, Department of Health and Human Services
Allegheny County Council District 3
Right and Left
By CP Staff and Haley Frederick
Tags: News, Allegheny County Council District 3, election guide, 2017
Pittsburgh civil-rights leaders urge city to settle with alleged police-brutality victim Leon Ford
Tags: Leon Ford, Tim Stevens, David Derbish, Andrew Miller, Michael Kosko, Bill Peduto, Richard Stewart, Black Political Empowerment Project, NAACP, police brutality
Planned Parenthood provides vital health-care services to women, even as Congress works hard to defund it
“For many of our patients, Planned Parenthood is the gateway into the health-care system.”
Tags: News, Planned Parenthood, health-care, women, congress, Women’s Health, Gina DeAngelo, college, insurance
Allegheny County leads Pennsylvania in clean-energy jobs, according to new report
Tags: Julian Boggs, Rich Fitzgerald, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Environmental Entrepreneurs, Keystone Energy Efficiency Alliance, Sharon Pillar, Wendy Staso, Huckestein Mechanical Services, U.S. Department of Energy
By Mars Johnson
Pittsburgh’s street trees are free upon request. So why do they often go to the city’s wealthiest residents?
By James Paul
The mayor and the tenor: when Masloff met Pavarotti
By David S. Rotenstein
Pittsburgh’s Dawn Hartman is bringing a new lens to her LGBTQ-centered Intimacy Project
By Jessie Sage
The cassette-tape comeback has reached Pittsburgh's record stores
By Ethan Beck