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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1 week 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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1 week ago |
post-gazette.com | Mike Wereschagin
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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3 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | Michael Sallah |Mike Wereschagin
The firm that poured millions of dollars into a massive steel factory in the heart of Appalachia had no office, no phone, no website, nor any employees. To nearly everyone, Veroni Alloys LLC, was a mystery. In an elaborate scheme, the company moved the money through a network of more than a dozen bank accounts to finance the purchase of the bustling facility that had employed generations of steelworkers, records show.
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1 month ago |
post-gazette.com | Michael Sallah |Mike Wereschagin |Jimmy Cloutier
President Donald Trump last week issued executive orders designed to revive the use of coal in power plants, a practice that has been steadily declining for more than a decade. But the effort is likely to fail, energy experts said, because the fossil fuel faces some hurdles. The power that coal plants produce typically can't compete with cheaper, cleaner alternatives. And many plants that burn coal are simply too old and would need extensive and expensive upgrades to continue running.
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1 month ago |
post-gazette.com | Mike Wereschagin |Ford Turner |Megan Tomasic
A 38-year-old man from Harrisburg set fire to Gov. Josh Shapiro’s mansion early Sunday, hours after the state’s first family celebrated the first night of Passover, according to police. What to know• Cody Balmer, 38, of Harrisburg was charged with attempted homicide, arson and terrorism. • Police said Balmer used beer bottles filled with gasoline to set fire to the governor's mansion. • Balmer said he would have beaten with Shapiro with a hammer if he encountered Mr. Shaprio, police said.
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