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Happy Saturday! It's Stephanie, the audience growth and engagement producer. As you may have heard, the iconic Western Pennsylvania rodent Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring ([link removed]) on Groundhog Day. With some sunshine slated in next week's forecast, I'll be dreaming of warmer days soon.
We ended this week with a first-person essay by Tuhin Das, an exiled Bangladeshi writer. In his essay, he writes of being stabbed, kidnapped and interrogated for writing against Islamists in Bangladesh. Now he continues the fight for free expression from his new home in Pittsburgh ([link removed]) .
Also this week, PublicSource reporters wrote about the disparities at PPS Gifted Center ([link removed]) , the county's sclerotic property tax appeals and reassessments system ([link removed]) , the legal landscape surrounding a union drive at a local coffee shop chain launched hours before the business shuttered ([link removed]) , and more.
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** After Adda Coffee closure, national board may be asked to read financial tea leaves ([link removed])
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** Inequitable enrichment: How Black and low-income students are largely left out of Pittsburgh’s gifted program ([link removed])
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** ICYMI FROM LAST WEEK
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* Of the three housing authorities serving Allegheny County, the smallest agency — in McKeesport — with the fewest number of housing unit has filed hundreds more landlord/tenant cases than its larger counterparts. Last year, the authority filed complaints against 1 in 4 tenants ([link removed]) .
* After a decade-long decline in enrollment, the Community College of Allegheny County saw a slight enrollment increase last year ([link removed]) . Can the school capitalize on this rebound to stabilize revenues and fuel the regional workforce?
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