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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Voters in the 34th state House district may see some familiar names on the ballot next spring. Wilkinsburg school board member Ashley Comans has launched a bid to topple first-term incumbent Abigail Salisbury. -
Allegheny County Executive-elect Sara Innamorato’s campaign included a promise to reassess properties as part of a broader effort to be fair — one she said would include protections from spiking tax bills for longtime homeowners and seniors.
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After Sara Innamorato squeaked out a victory in the race for Allegheny County executive, Democrats are second-guessing themselves.
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District 10 incumbent DeWitt Walton topped community activist Carl Redwood. In District 13, independent socialist candidate Sam Schmidt lost to Democrat David Bonaroti.
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Democrat Corey O’Connor earned a full term from voters, beating Republican Bob Howard. Democrat Erica Rocchi Brusselars will replace longtime Treasurer John Weinstein.
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Sara Innamorato, the former state representative, is now poised to become the most powerful local elected official in western Pennsylvania. Her tenure promises to take county government in a decidedly more progressive direction.
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Both candidates spent the weekend in a final push of rallies, door-knocking and phone calls before the general election tomorrow.
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GOP’s Rockey boasts sizable fundraising advantage over Innamorato in Allegheny County executive raceFinancial reports filed at the end of last week show that Joe Rockey amassed a nearly $1 million fundraising advantage over Sara Innamorato since June.
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Change is coming to an Allegheny County Council district in next week's election — and the race is the kind of battle voters ordinarily see only during the primary.
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The letter's signatories fault Lee specifically for two actions she’s taken in the U.S. House of Representatives in recent days, but they say they "welcome the opportunity to speak" with her.
