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The Trump administration is cutting staff and funding at Health and Human Services including the NIH — which fund much of Pittsburgh’s research. Are you an affected researcher? Consider emailing PublicSource at encrypted [email protected] or Signal at PublicSource.412

"Mary Lou Williams was dubbed the 'Little Piano Girl of East Liberty.' She had to be playing that piano, somewhere." Njaimeh Njie went in search of a gentrified neighborhood's lost "third spaces" and found hope for the future publicsource.org/lifting-east-l…

Trump's tariff shifts and two months of stock market swoons have changed the way Pittsburghers save, spend and plan publicsource.org/pittsburgh-tar…

Among City of Pittsburgh gov't high earners last year were police who were reinstated after being fired and two top cops who resigned, Charlie Wolfson found in the annual PublicSource review of public payrolls publicsource.org/city-pittsburg…

"Even though I had failed thoroughly, I convinced myself that what I needed was to pursue something harder." Melisa Orta Martinez describes her "wacky journey" to a lab full of haptic robots publicsource.org/robotics-cmu-c…

Sex workers in the Pittsburgh area have been building community, and now they're advocating for a city ordinance that would reduce paid, consensual sex to a summary offense publicsource.org/sex-workers-pi…

Gainey says he has "delivered" on affordable housing. O'Connor calls the mayor's claims "disingenuous." Charlie Wolfson combed the data and charted Pittsburgh housing trends publicsource.org/pittsburgh-may…

Excellent article. This is real journalism— unlike the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette openly shilling for their candidate, this is a fair look at the claims on both sides and the progress being made.

After the third pedestrian death in two years on a "cursed" street in Oakland, the City of Pittsburgh and U of Pitt planned safety improvements. What's done, and what's behind schedule? See the report cards publicsource.org/pedestrian-dea…

"I brought 10-month-old WD home from Children’s Hospital as a foster baby ... A neurology fellow said it was anyone’s guess how his cerebral palsy, epilepsy and cortical visual impairment would progress." Join Amy's journey of love and letting go publicsource.org/medicaid-resid…

Pittsburgh's public media won't quit producing news, programs amid Trump admin effort to slash funding triblive.com/local/regional… (Disclosure: I'm a monthly WESA and WYEP donor.)

Great hanging with the YaJagoff (dot) com team last night, talking about the news biz and the coming PublicSource zine celebrating the North Side! Catch the podcast, also featuring Cookie Cookie, Pitt volleyball and local music.