Plus, PublicSource's second story in its EQT Gas Play series.
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This week, J.D. Harlock shared how he fled his hometown of Lebanon and moved in with his sister in Pittsburgh. He expected to find prosperity and opportunity but instead was greeted with potholes, poverty and racism ([link removed]) .
Also, PublicSource released the second story in its investigative series, EQT's Gas Play ([link removed]) . Pittsburgh's EQT says its natural gas is countering Russian aggression and addressing the climate crisis, but scientists say that’s not true ([link removed]) .
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On Tuesday night, Pennsylvania's primaries concluded with Summer Lee winning the Democratic nomination ([link removed]) to potentially serve in the U.S. Congress for a second time. Allegheny County's maps post-primary showed weakness for Joe Biden and Donald Trump ([link removed]) , both of whom won the presidential Pennsylvania primary nominations.
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** My American Dream ended on a deflated air mattress in a run-down Squirrel Hill apartment ([link removed])
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** EQT says fracked gas is a climate solution, but scientists call that deceptive greenwashing ([link removed])
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** Summer Lee nominated to serve second term in Congress ([link removed])
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** In no-suspense presidential primaries, Allegheny County map shows weaknesses for both Trump and Biden ([link removed])
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Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures welcomes Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and author of “An Immense World” to Ten Evenings on April 29 at the Carnegie Music Hall. Funny, rigorous and suffused with the joy of discovery, “An Immense World” takes us on what Marcel Proust called “the only true voyage… not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes.” Purchase tickets at pittsburghlectures.org ([link removed]) .
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** A 9-year-old Zelienople boy’s health crisis sheds light on the need for diversity in organ donors ([link removed])
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** County police oversight board ready to start, but has yet to probe a case ([link removed])
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** Pitt students, spurred by Gaza, pledge days of divestment activism on campus ([link removed])
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* Last week, advocates for unhoused people in Pittsburgh delivered an open letter to the Second Avenue Commons shelter, calling upon it to stop kicking people out for "minor infractions." ([link removed])
* While young people helped decide the election in Pennsylvania in 2020, current high school and college-age voters in Allegheny County said they were frustrated and unenthused ahead of the primary election. Will they turn out for a Biden-Trump rematch? ([link removed])
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