Mike Wereschagin
Investigative Reporter at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Investigations & data @PittsburghPG. Co-author of Gone at 3:17, the story of America's deadliest school disaster (https://t.co/YL3mOHSG6K). Underwater whenever possible
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2 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | Hallie Lauer |Mike Wereschagin
Four years ago, as former Mayor Bill Peduto was fighting to hold onto the top job in the city, a political tide driven by the left wing of his party was rising to overwhelm his bid for a third term. From Lawrenceville to Highland Park, and Squirrel Hill to Point Breeze, some of the bastions of Pittsburgh’s liberalism were abandoning the man who had once called himself the first progressive mayor of a major rust-belt city.
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2 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | Mike Wereschagin
Ahistoric mayoral administration met a stunning end on Tuesday as Democratic voters ousted the city’s first Black mayor as their nominee for the November ballot. In the first high-profile loss for the progressive juggernaut that has reshaped the region’s politics in recent years, Mayor Ed Gainey lost his primary to Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Connor.
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2 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | Hallie Lauer |Mike Wereschagin |Steve Bohnel
Pennsylvania’s two largest cities will hold primaries Tuesday for high-profile municipal offices, while voters across the commonwealth will choose nominees for statewide appellate court judgeships. The election is a prelude to November, when voters could scramble partisan control of the state Supreme Court. The primaries in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh will have added significance because the eventual Democratic nominees will be heavily favored in the general election.
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2 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | Hallie Lauer |Mike Wereschagin
A budget on the brink. A crisis in affordable housing. A Democratic Party fighting over how to win back voters — and using Pittsburgh as its battleground. As the raucous, hard-fought campaign between Mayor Ed Gainey and Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Conner barrels toward its end Tuesday, the city faces an inflection point unlike any it has seen in decades.
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1 month ago |
centredaily.com | Mike Wereschagin
May 4-For city leaders, the internal report one year ago was startling: Pittsburgh's finances, despite the glowing claims of some elected officials, were on the brink of disaster. Revenues were plummeting. Expenses were rising. Without a major course correction, the city could drain its bank account as early as 2027 - a threat it had not faced since the darkest days of state receivership decades earlier.
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