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In this newsletter: As an outreach worker for six years, Dave Lettrich writes in a first-person essay about improvements in how Pittsburgh houses people, shortcomings in the shelter system and innovative efforts to help the unhoused in the city.

And, Carnegie Mellon University wants to build a robotics playground on a brownfield site in Hazelwood.

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Allegheny County’s homeless community embraced me. Our region’s leaders should keep working to comfort unhoused people

“The turmoil that we are experiencing this year has created opportunities for change that we would have otherwise been hard-pressed to find. We’ve always been very efficient at providing long-term housing for people. But as a result, we’ve only needed to be OK at providing emergency shelter. ...

“Right now, there is an appetite for change and willingness to collaborate at our highest levels of local government, the likes of which I’ve not previously experienced.”

                                READ DAVE LETTRICH'S FIRST-PERSON ESSAY
                            

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Robots may roam proposed Hazelwood Green development

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Nearly half of CCAC students who want to transfer to four-year universities go on to successfully do so, surpassing the national rate, according to a PublicSource analysis.
Spotlight PA takes a look at why some say an effort to fix Pennsylvania's outdated probation law does more harm than good.

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More than 1 billion people are projected to have diabetes by 2050

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