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Home sale deeds for some subdivisions across Allegheny County once barred the sales of those properties to Black buyers and sometimes other ethnic groups, historian David S. Rotenstein reveals. A new law allows owners to repudiate such language, but echoes of the covenants remain. Read the story and explore the historical documents and interactive maps.

Also, transit apps in Pittsburgh designed to give live updates on bus locations often fail to account for the whims of traffic, road work and driver staffing, sometimes leading to "ghost buses." Pittsburgh Regional Transit is working to improve tracker data and customer service.

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Built for white people: The hidden racist history of some Pittsburgh neighborhoods

PublicSource examined 18 subdivisions inside the city and in its suburbs in which race was a factor in determining who could live there.

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In a first-person essay, Molly Campe captures what it was like growing up in the Penn Avenue arts corridor scene, and, after 20 years away, what brought her back to Pittsburgh.
A conservative group based in Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit in January alleging a Pine-Richland schools bathroom policy violates parental rights. This effort fits into a pattern of out-of-town groups targeting LGBTQ inclusion policies in and around the city.

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