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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
publicsource.org | Jake Vasilias |Rich Lord
Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato’s 500-in-500 program to house people staying in shelters has activated 191 housing units in 250 days, officials said this week. That puts the push past the one-third mark in unit count at halftime. Along the Eliza Furnace Trail Monday, county and City of Pittsburgh officials celebrated the closing of a longstanding trailside encampment, which they said had been the last cluster of tents remaining in the city’s Golden Triangle.
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2 months ago | 
pittnews.com | Jake Vasilias |Ashley O'Doherty
I’ve been a fan of tennis for a while now. When I was younger, I truly never got the appeal, but something switched about two years ago. At the end of summer 2023, I was overwhelmed getting ready for my senior year and frantically trying to start college applications. I vividly remember one day sitting down to work on my personal essay and turning the TV on. I usually always scroll through the sports channels, and for some reason, that day, I landed on the Tennis Channel.
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2 months ago | 
pittnews.com | Jake Vasilias |Livia LaMarca
You are born, you go to school and then you work for the rest of your life if you are not fortunate enough to afford retirement. That is pretty much the path for most Americans — work until you are gray and sell your soul to the bourgeoisie unless you are the top 1% of the 1%. As a child, your life is vivid and bright. You have your whole life ahead of you. Your summer vacations are spent going on family trips, playing in pools and drawing with chalk.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Jake Vasilias |Chloe Woodruff
Mimesis is a biweekly blog that focuses on media criticism through memoir. 4:06 pm My best friend and I replaced my car’s cabin air filter last weekend. It was long overdue — the AC spewed stale air that was barely preferable to leaving the vents off. Even at the strongest setting, it blew only a sigh. After I fiddled with the glove box for far too long, the filter finally loosened from its mounting.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Jake Vasilias |Emily Harris
Couch Critic is a weekly critical analysis blog on currently trending media. 4:12 pm As we near the 2024 election, my social media feeds have become a tapestry of viral political videos, debates and commentaries. Like nearly every voting-age college student, Jubilee election videos in particular are practically inescapable, overflowing my YouTube feed and filling my TikTok pages with subsequent compilation edits.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Jake Vasilias |Brynn Murawski
I’ve struggled with anxiety since third grade, and probably before then too, if I’m being honest. So sitting at my kitchen table playing the Hamilton soundtrack to try to calm myself down enough to eat lunch is not a shocking experience for me to have. In this case, specifically, it was because I woke up the day before Halloween with a sore throat and a slight discoloration of my tonsils. Immediately, I spiraled.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Jake Vasilias |Faith Richardson
Hey friends,Time really seems to be flying by. It feels like just yesterday I was a scared first-year, thrown into a new city with new people and new classes. But now, as a grown-up adult — I’m a sophomore — I know how silly it was for me to be nervous. I’ve learned so many new things over the course of my time in college so far and have fallen in love with the city of Pittsburgh.
