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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 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.

Also this week, PublicSource reporters wrote about the disparities at PPS Gifted Center, the county's sclerotic property tax appeals and reassessments system, the legal landscape surrounding a union drive at a local coffee shop chain launched hours before the business shuttered, and more.

Read all of our stories from this week below. If any of them fascinate you, make sure to forward this email to friend so they can read them too. ⬇️

Fighting for freedom of expression is dangerous but necessary

Property tax appeals erode budgets as assessment burden shifts

Greenwood Plan to bring business accelerator Downtown to aid Black enterprises

After Adda Coffee closure, national board may be asked to read financial tea leaves 

Inequitable enrichment: How Black and low-income students are largely left out of Pittsburgh’s gifted program 
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ICYMI FROM LAST WEEK
  • 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.  
  • After a decade-long decline in enrollment, the Community College of Allegheny County saw a slight enrollment increase last year. Can the school capitalize on this rebound to stabilize revenues and fuel the regional workforce?
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