Plus, the East Palestine train derailment made her long to be back home.
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This week, housing advocates and outreach workers presented the Second Avenue Commons shelter in Pittsburgh with an open letter asking it to stop kicking out unhoused people for "minor infractions," which counters its low-barrier model ([link removed]) .
Also, Corina Pittman contemplated the East Palestine train derailment from a bar in Colorado and her heart ached for her hometown of Pittsburgh. After five years of missing the city where her family has deep roots, she moved back ([link removed]) .
Ahead of Pennsylvania's primary election on Tuesday, PublicSource local government reporter Charlie Wolfson writes about the flood of out-of-region funding supporting 12th District Democratic primary contenders ([link removed]) Bhavini Patel and incumbent Rep. Summer Lee.
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** Open letter from advocates for unhoused people calls on Downtown shelter to stop kicking people out for ‘minor infractions’ ([link removed])
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** Mulling an environmental disaster in a Colorado bar surfaced my deep (and complicated) Pa. roots ([link removed])
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** Democratic primary for Pittsburgh’s Congress seat flooded by money from afar, including conservative Yass ([link removed])
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** Updated: Council initially backs zoning change favoring attached houses ([link removed])
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** ‘My relationship with Mother Nature may never recover’: Southwestern Pa. residents share how record rainfall affected them ([link removed])
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