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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The speech drew upon Biden's longtime support of unions and underscored battle lines on an issue that his presumptive Republican challenger, Donald Trump, has long made a defining issue of his previous runs for the White House.
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The civil rights group contends that Washington County election officials are silencing voters based on a flawed understanding of a recent decision by the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. It's the latest development in a long-running fight about Pennsylvania's mail-in ballot provisions.
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Bhavini Patel's effort to topple first-term Rep. Summer Lee in this month’s Democratic primary has been bolstered by Jeffery Yass, one of the nation’s most prolific Republican donors.
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As part of a sign of mounting concerns about the fiscal health of the City of Pittsburgh, new legislation before city council would create additional oversight.
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After weeks of sounding the alarm, Pittsburgh Public Schools has filed a lawsuit with the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas in hopes of compelling a court-ordered countywide property reassessment.
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Pennsylvania doesn’t offer an “uncommitted” option for selecting delegates. Organizers instead hope to get 40,000 Democratic voters to use the write-in option.
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The debate lasted just 30 minutes but included rapid-fire attacks concerning the war in Gaza, the candidates' loyalty to President Joe Biden, and dueling accusations about each other’s supporters.
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Democrats are hoping that voters will find things to admire in President Joe Biden despite frustrations, and that investments in Western Pennsylvania will pay off this November.
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The project, part of a $63 million investment being made statewide through President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, will focus on the building’s loading dock, where there has been deterioration to concrete and steel beams.
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The city announced Monday that City Planning director Karen Abrams would step down in April. Mayor Ed Gainey has said he intends to replace her with Jamil Bey, the founder and CEO of the Urbankind Institute.