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In this newsletter: Even with financial aid, Pitt families pay more than those nationwide who send their children to their university next door.

Artist Andrea Shockling, a regular contributor to PublicSource, writes and draws about how she was steps away from being in the jury box in the trial of the man charged in the 2018 killing of 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
 

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The high cost of higher ed: Pitt is one of the nation’s priciest public universities for local families
Public universities provide lower tuition for in-state residents, but that discount doesn’t go as far at Pitt. The university’s average price of attendance for local families is one of the highest in the country, partly because of downward-trending state investment in public higher education.
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Deselected: My time on the jury pool in the Tree of Life shooting showed why juries are so homogeneous

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  • The implosion of the smokestacks at the former Cheswick Generating Station, in Springdale, puts an exclamation point on the end of coal power in Allegheny County, but the future of the site is in dispute.

  • Jordan Corcoran writes in her first-person essay: The stories of struggle that students line up to tell can be crushing, but I need to honor them, combine them with my own insights and make change happen.

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How Local Government Works: Are government officials’ personal social media posts public records?

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