Laura Esposito
Crime and Public Safety Reporter at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
reporting on trauma &public safety @PittsburghPG. rust belt transplant. believer in people. ✉️[email protected]
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4 days ago |
post-gazette.com | Benjamin Kail |Ford Turner |Steve Bohnel |Laura Esposito
While some supporters and campaign donors say they’ve witnessed a rightward shift in Sen. John Fetterman, many with ties to the Democrat in Braddock, where he served as mayor and started his political rise, say he hasn’t changed much over the years — if at all. “I think he's passionate and he's direct, and he certainly doesn't cut corners,” said Alaina Webber, co-owner of Brew Gentlemen, a brew pub on Braddock Avenue.
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1 week ago |
post-gazette.com | Laura Esposito
Some say it takes a village to raise a child. In Wilkinsburg, it takes a village to survive a power outage. At Douglas Plaza Apartments, where storm-related outage has left many elderly and wheelchair-using tenants stranded in their rooms for five days, neighbors have stepped up in the absence of outside help. Since the complex lost power during the huge storm Tuesday evening, tenants have been cooking meals, running errands, and charging phones for their disabled and older neighbors.
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2 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | Laura Esposito
Pittsburgh Public School directors on Wednesday approved the Manchester-Chateau Transit Revitalization Investment District, or TRID — a funding mechanism to support nearly $54 million in infrastructure upgrades tied to the $600 million Esplanade development in Manchester.
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2 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | Laura Esposito
The Pennsylvania Head Start Association and several advocacy groups are suing the Trump administration over what they allege is an unlawful attempt to dismantle Head Start, a federal program that serves more than 800,000 of the nation’s most vulnerable children.
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2 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | Charles Thompson |Isaac Elster |Benjamin Kail |Laura Esposito
The 911 dispatcher who took the call from the suspected firebomber of the Governor’s Residence within an hour of the attack should have escalated the call, but didn’t, Dauphin County officials admitted. Chief Clerk Eric Hagarty said the county learned the 911 dispatcher “did not appropriately escalate the call in accordance with County policy,” though county officials declined to provide the policy in question.
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