Julia Maruca
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A Tuesday night Pittsburgh mayoral debate featured Republican and Democratic primary contenders offering their visions for Pittsburgh’s future, in a forum that featured few fireworks even as the Democratic race in particular has become contentious.
Kiley Koscinski
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90.5 WESA
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Pennsylvania Democrats said they would fight Republican efforts to defund NPR and PBS while most Republicans declined requests for comment. -
Pennsylvania is one of 10 states with closed primaries that exclude independents. Every session, lawmakers and advocates push for change, but leaders haven’t committed. -
In 2006, Pennsylvania sold 135 acres of land for $1 to start a business park in Centre County. As Amazon moves, local business leaders think the vision has been realized. -
Pennsylvania and federal open records laws don’t require elected officials to release their work calendars to the public. -
Gainey and his defenders say it is unfair to hold him responsible for a legacy of blight whose biggest victim has been the Black community itself. -
The legislation would allow Pennsylvanians to opt out of certain data collection practices by companies and require businesses that collect data to remove consumers’ information on request. -
A grant of $59 million would have helped hundreds of farmers in the Mid-Atlantic adapt to climate change. The Trump administration called the funds a “green new scam.” -
The Allegheny Front’s Julie Grant spoke about the mass deconstruction of the nation’s regulations with Jody Freeman, director of the Environmental and Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School. -
Pennsylvania lawmakers rebuked U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wednesday, denouncing disparaging comments he made recently about autism. -
The U.S. Justice Department is withdrawing its lawsuit that accused a heavily Hispanic city in Pennsylvania of illegally diluting the political power of its growing Hispanic population.
