Pittsburgh Independent

Mar 14, 2024 | pghindependent.com | Brian Conway

He is a 2x 2023 Western PA Press Club Golden Quill award winner, in feature and business reporting. And a 3x finalist in the investigative reporting category. He is a 2018 first prize winner in environmental reporting from the Keystone Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for reporting on lead in Pittsburgh’s drinking water. In 2022 and 2021, he was awarded a grant from The Gumshoe Group to support his investigative reporting.

Feb 8, 2024 | pghindependent.com | Brian Conway

The call came in around 3:30 AM on the morning of February 8, 2002, for a vehicle fire in a parking lot near the 16th Street Bridge in Northside. The blaze was so intense that firefighters didn’t realize someone had been inside until the flames subsided. Two days later, dental records confirmed that the deceased was 33-year-old Jamie Stickle. The Uniontown native worked as a bartender at Sidelines and other Downtown gay bars on Liberty Avenue.

Dec 8, 2023 | pghindependent.com | Brian Conway

Jason Sauer, the spraycan-toting, derby car-mangling founder of Most Wanted Fine Arts, has cordially invited his Garfield neighbors, BOOM Concepts, to accompany him to Miami Art Week, one of the country’s premier art spectacles. “These guys have something great going on,” says Sauer, who closed his gallery in 2017, but still lives in the neighborhood and trades under the name.

Dec 4, 2023 | pghindependent.com | James Paul |Brian Conway

Soft light poured out the windows of an old bricklayer’s mansion turned event space in Wilkinsburg. Inside, roughly 20 people sat around two dining room tables, guarded by a maze of brightly colored halls and side rooms filled with plants and sculptures. The attendees passed around a mushroom risotto over heaping plates of turkey, stuffing and other Thanksgiving hallmarks. Over fast-emptying bottles of wine, conversations between old friends and new connections flowed.

Dec 3, 2023 | pghindependent.com | Brian Conway |Brittany Hailer

Allegheny County already has paid more than $350,000 to nonprofit services provider Adelphoi, months before the Latrobe-based nonprofit will begin to operate the former Shuman Juvenile Detention Center. There is no clear timeline when the facility will open, and as of Dec. 1, Adelphoi had not yet applied for astate Department of Human Services license to operate the facility. Adelphoi’s daily rate of $7,803 began Sept.