Jack Troy
Reporter for @triblive. Other bylines: @publicsourcepa @pghcitypaper @thepittnews @pittsburghpg
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3 days ago |
triblive.com | Jack Troy
With U.S. Steel’s $14.9 billion sale to Nippon Steel made official last week, environmental advocates say it’s time for corporate leadership to take make real strides toward limiting pollution. “U.S. Steel has gotten everything that it wished for in this deal with Nippon,” said Matt Mehalik, executive director of the Pittsburgh-based Breathe Project. “That means there can be no more excuses from a company notorious for making promises and backing away from them.
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3 days ago |
triblive.com | Jack Troy
UPMC has confirmed it will end gender-affirming care for patients 18 and under in response to the Trump administration’s policies aimed at transgender youth. A spokesperson for UPMC, the region’s largest hospital network, said federal guidance has made it clear clinicians who provide care such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy run the risk of criminal prosecution. UPMC will continue to provide behavioral health support and other care “within the bounds of the law,” the spokesperson added.
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5 days ago |
triblive.com | Jack Troy
Highmark is among the more than 50 health insurers who pledged Monday to speed up and slim down prior authorization, the process through which patients and their doctors must seek insurance approval for certain medical care before it’s administered. “It’s all about decreasing the administrative burden,” said Highmark Chief Medical Officer Tim Law. “My kind of mantra in this industry is the health plan should be a conduit to care between the provider and the patient.
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1 week ago |
triblive.com | Jack Troy
Pittsburgh’s boisterous Pride parade may soak up a lot of attention, but Freeport Pride Stroll and Festival is a chance for LGBTQ+ people in the Alle-Kiski Valley to feel supported in their own community, organizers say. “You don’t have to go to a big city to feel safe,” said Sidney Namey, one of many people putting the event together. “You can feel safe at home.”Note the word “stroll.” It’s not a parade; there will be no floats.
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2 weeks ago |
triblive.com | Jack Troy
The Casino Theatre in Vandergrift could have become anything over the years — a parking lot, like the theater on Longfellow Street did, or maybe basketball courts. Yes, that almost happened. It even survived a 13-year period of neglect, between 1982 and 1995, after the company that ran it as a cinema pulled up stakes to invest in multiplexes. Somehow, 125 years later, the historic building is still standing, and still a theater.
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