‘Disability pride’ has proved elusive

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This week: Eli Kurs-Lasky on the reality of Disability Pride in a society that has few accommodations for people with disabilities. Pittsburgh’s oldest public housing community will be demolished to make room for a new vision of affordable housing, after the city won a coveted federal grant.

Pennsylvania's stalemate over funding Pitt, PSU and Temple means tuition uncertainty for thousands of families. Also a long-awaited report commissioned by Mayor Ed Gainey says that Pittsburgh’s police budgets for far more patrol officers than it needs.

From loving ‘pandemonium’ to enduring the pandemic, ‘disability pride’ has proved elusive

$50 million federal infusion coming to Pittsburgh housing authority’s Hill District revamp

Pa.’s latest bid to regulate cyber charter schools would lower tuition payments, boost transparency

State lawmakers are holding up funding for Pitt. Here’s what that means.

Attorneys applaud ‘first step’ toward fix for Allegheny County’s cut-rate court-appointed lawyer system

Consultants give Gainey plan to fix ‘overstaffed’ police, but new chief disagrees

Pittsburgh’s go-slow land bank getting more tools, but less funds

From implosion’s dust, competing visions for Allegheny Valley’s future emerging

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