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1 week ago | 
publicsource.org | Arshi Qureshi |Bella Markovitz
Aaron Tipton still has nightmares about his time at the Allegheny County Jail, which he attributes in part to a sergeant there who has been named in seven civil rights lawsuits since 2020. When Tipton was in the jail in 2022 and 2023, he accused several corrections officers of abuse, then became the subject of unwanted attention from Sgt. Hunter Sarver, he alleged in a lawsuit filed last year.
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2 months ago | 
publicsource.org | Bella Markovitz |Eric Jankiewicz
Conservatorship is a legal process to halt dilapidation and abandonment. Private companies, nonprofits and neighborhood organizations have filed hundreds of petitions to become court-supervised conservators of properties that fit certain criteria. Once named a conservator, a group can:Spend money on improvements and then place a lien on the propertyUse the lien to collect money spent on the improvements or take ownership.
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2 months ago | 
triblive.com | Bella Markovitz
“No one deserves it more than them” was a frequent refrain in video testimonies recorded by the many friends, co-workers and family members of this year’s four Heart of Hampton winners. The Hampton Alliance for Educational Excellence held the event Feb. 22 at Lucky Sign Spirits Distillery to honor excellence in the Hampton community. Before showing the HAEE-produced video, Hannalore Merritt, the group’s president, told the guests how HAEE decided to revive the event once hosted by Hampton Magazine.
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2 months ago | 
triblive.com | Bella Markovitz
North Hills Ebony Women Inc.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
publicsource.org | Bella Markovitz
It started in 2019 with a PayPal link and less than $5,000. It’s grown into the only community bail fund in the Pittsburgh region. Bukit Bail Fund supports people held for trial at the Allegheny County Jail by posting bail at no cost to the defendants. Like similar efforts across the country, the fund’s organizers say their work is a way to address injustices in the criminal justice system.
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
triblive.com | Bella Markovitz
Imagination took center stage recently during North Hills Middle School drama club’s 30th annual winter musical. This year, the theme was Dr. Seuss, and about 100 middle school students and eight North Hills High School students worked together to produce “Seussical Jr.”Middle school musical director and choir teacher Shaun Cloonan said though the story interweaves elements from several different Seuss books and thus may seem strange to some, the story is a wonderful and fun experience.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
technical.ly | Bella Markovitz |Jake Vasilias
Technical.ly partnered with PublicSource to explore the landscape of work in Pittsburgh — famed for its industriousness and intense union-management conflict and collaboration — as it is pressure-tested by changes in governmental policy, technology and economics. Known as a working-class city and a union town, Pittsburgh has a history of labor organizing and even militancy that is indisputably tied to the city’s past status as a steel and manufacturing hub.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
publicsource.org | Bella Markovitz |Jake Vasilias
PublicSource, with Technical.ly, is exploring the landscape of work in Pittsburgh — famed for its industriousness and intense union-management conflict and collaboration — as it is pressure-tested by changes in governmental policy, technology and economics. Known as a working-class city and a union town, Pittsburgh has a history of labor organizing and even militancy that is indisputably tied to the city’s past status as a steel and manufacturing hub.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
publicsource.org | Bella Markovitz |Jake Vasilias |Charlie Wolfson
Posted inPittsburgh at Work “I really do think Pittsburgh can be held up as a major force in unionism and labor throughout this period,” said Ryan Henderson, interpretive specialist at Rivers of Steel. “There’s so many sites in Pittsburgh associated with these major labor struggles.”
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
publicsource.org | Bella Markovitz
Pittsburgh’s planners aim to get input from at least 30,000 Pittsburghers — nearly 1 in 10 city residents — on a comprehensive blueprint for the next 25 years. To get that input, they intend to offer grants to groups, and show up where people congregate. City officials and a steering committee made up of civic and community leaders welcomed guests from all over Pittsburgh to an event Thursday evening launching the Pittsburgh 2050 Comprehensive Plan.
