Oliver Morrison
ReporterOliver Morrison is a general assignment reporter at WESA. He previously covered education, environment and health for PublicSource in Pittsburgh and, before that, breaking news and weekend features for the Wichita Eagle in Kansas. He started his career in New York reporting for local and national publications like City Limits and The Atlantic. He taught English and theater in the Arkansas Delta for seven years before switching careers in 2013. Oliver is a graduate of Deep Springs College, the University of Oxford and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Email: omorrison@wesa.fm.
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Ryan Bizzarro and Erin McClelland are running for the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania state treasurer. The winner faces incumbent Stacy Garrity.
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Keir Bradford-Grey, Eugene DePasquale, Joe Khan, Jared Solomon, and Jack Stollsteimer are running in the Democratic primary. Dave Sunday and Craig Williams are competing for the Republican nomination.
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About 5 million tons of greenhouse gasses were emitted within Pittsburgh in 2022 — roughly the same amount as in 2013. At this rate, the city will fall short of its goal to reduce emissions by 50% by 2030.
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Craig Williams and Dave Sunday, Republican candidates for Pennsylvania attorney general, squared off Thursday night in a debate that highlighted some sharp differences.
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All the candidates agreed that adult recreational use of marijuana should be legal, and that more needed to be done to tackle opioid abuse. They each said they would ensure abortion access is protected. They promised to do more to get guns off the streets. And they all agreed with the decision to ban TikTok on government devices.
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The five Democratic candidates for Pennsylvania's top prosecutor are playing down criminal justice reform — a sign of how the politics around crime have changed even as crime rates ebb from a post-pandemic spike.
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One of First Lady Jill Biden’s 20 guests at the state of the union speech tonight will be Pittsburgher Samantha Ervin-Upsher. Ervin-Upsher is a 23-year-old mother of two, and an apprentice with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters Local 432.
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick says Pennsylvania’s future economic prosperity will depend on whether its energy industry can grow even faster than it already has.
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The cost of providing water and sewage across the country has been increasing by more than triple the rate of inflation — and that cost is increasing even faster in the Pittsburgh area, as the region undergoes generational infrastructure improvements. Some water and sewage utilities are doing better than others at helping vulnerable customers keep their water on.
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The plan puts community colleges and state-owned universities under one system, and limits tuition to $1,000 per semester for many students.