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In this newsletter: As Pittsburgh’s sewage infrastructure ages, homeowners have been ordered to repair pipes they didn’t realize were theirs. A group of Regent Square homeowners believes the burden should be shared.

Another set of eyes scrutinizes the facts in PublicSource’s stories for a better Pittsburgh. PublicSource Editor-in-Chief Halle Stockton reviews our fact-checking process.

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Flushed? When the city orders homeowners to pursue five-figure sewer fixes, questions mount about pipes, maps and responsibilities

In December, Regent Square homeowner Rob Kennedy got a letter in the mail from the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority [PWSA]. “Dear customer,” it began, and notified Kennedy that his private sewer lateral was broken, a risk to public health and safety, and needed to be repaired.

That can’t be right, Kennedy thought. PWSA had sent him the same letter a year prior, and he had already doled out $8,400 for repairs.

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Misinformation’s antidote? Fact-checked journalism

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Spotlight PA has found that state officials spent $12.6M on private lawyers to fight a challenge to Pennsylvania's education funding model. A court earlier this year found the state’s system for funding its public schools is inequitable and disproportionately harms poorer districts. It’s a landmark decision that is widely expected to cost billions of dollars to address.
Even with financial aid, Pitt families pay more than those nationwide who send their children to their university next door.

GPNP to gather Pittsburgh nonprofits for transformative leadership, partnership and innovation

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40M Americans will soon have to restart student loan payments and experts fear ‘levels of default…we’ve never seen before’

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