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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While some residents in town are focused on the long-term health impacts, many East Palestine proprietors say they've struggled to keep their businesses afloat.
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Conflict in the Middle East elicited heated exchanges between U.S. Rep. Summer Lee and one of her two primary challengers, Bhavini Patel, at the Barbara Daly Danko Political Forum at Carnegie Mellon University on Sunday.
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The grant includes additional funding to reduce traffic, prevent landslides and avert accidents along I-376, which Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said carries 44,000 drivers per day.
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Former employees of Adda Coffee and Tea House want their former boss to compensate them while they look for other work.
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CEO Alan Shaw told a small gaggle of local media reporters in East Palestine that the company is safer than it has ever been, that it’s fulfilled all of the commitments it has made so far and that it’s continuing to work to bring the village of East Palestine back to life.
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Some longtime residents of Pittsburgh are mourning the expected sale of U.S. Steel. The assets could be sold to a Japanese firm in what some say is a particularly ironic twist.
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The markets cheered the proposed sale of U.S. Steel to Japan-based Nippon. But in and around Pittsburgh, reactions ranged from outrage to concern over national security.
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Members of Pittsburgh Public Schools’ board of education will vote on the budget Wednesday, one month after the 344-page proposal was posted online for the public to inspect.
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A handful of Jewish women spent last Sunday morning in the kitchen of Pennsylvania State Rep. Abigail Salisbury’s Swissvale home to engage in what she has dubbed “babka diplomacy.”
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The Pittsburgh-based health care system had lifted its previous mask mandate in May.