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Chris Potter
Government & Accountability EditorNearly three decades after leaving home for college, Chris Potter now lives four miles from the house he grew up in -- a testament either to the charm of the South Hills or to a simple lack of ambition. In the intervening years, Potter held a variety of jobs, including asbestos abatement engineer and ice-cream truck driver. He has also worked for a number of local media outlets, only some of which then went out of business. After serving as the editor of Pittsburgh City Paper for a decade, he covered politics and government at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He has won some awards during the course of his quarter-century journalistic career, but then even a blind squirrel sometimes digs up an acorn.
And yes, that is his real hair.
He can be reached at 412-930-8006 or at cpotter@wesa.fm.
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Republicans are painting Democrat Kamala Harris as a radical who is hostile to fracking for natural gas, a key industry in Western Pennsylvania.
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About the only person not willing to engage in speculation about his potential inclusion on the Democratic ticket — at least not publicly — is Shapiro himself.
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With President Joe Biden ending his reelection bid and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats now must navigate a shift that is unprecedented this late in an election year.
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Biden has tried to brush aside Democratic concerns about his candidacy after last month’s disastrous debate. Western Pennsylvania Democrats are staying out of the fight.
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Republican Senatorial candidate Dave McCormick addressed the Republican National Convention Tuesday night, praising Donald Trump's "remarkable strength and resolve" in the face of an assassination attempt.
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Federal officials visited Salem’s Market in the Hill District Monday, hailing efforts by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help the local grocer take root in a long-neglected community.
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The need to protect marginalized communities from the GOP should provide a focus for Democrats even amid questions about President Joe Biden’s ability to effectively campaign, the congresswoman said.
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Echoes from the gunshots that killed a Western Pennsylvania man, and came inches from slaying Donald Trump, had barely died away before Americans began training their fire on each other.
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The former president was whisked away after the incident. Later Saturday night, he posted on his Truth Social media site that a bullet “pierced the upper part of my right ear.”
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Kiron Skinner, who founded Carnegie Mellon's Institute for Politics and Strategy, wrote the Project 2025 treatise on the U.S. State Department.