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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.

Also, PublicSource released the second story in its investigative series, EQT's Gas Play. Pittsburgh's EQT says its natural gas is countering Russian aggression and addressing the climate crisis, but scientists say that’s not true.
On Tuesday night, Pennsylvania's primaries concluded with Summer Lee winning the Democratic nomination to potentially serve in Congress for a second time. Allegheny County's maps post-primary showed weakness for Joe Biden and Donald Trump, as they head for the General Election.

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My American Dream ended on a deflated air mattress in a run-down Squirrel Hill apartment

EQT says fracked gas is a climate solution, but scientists call that deceptive greenwashing

 

Summer Lee nominated to serve second term in Congress
 

In no-suspense presidential primaries, Allegheny County map shows weaknesses for both Trump and Biden
 
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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.

A 9-year-old Zelienople boy’s health crisis sheds light on the need for diversity in organ donors

County police oversight board ready to start, but has yet to probe a case

Pitt students, spurred by Gaza, pledge days of divestment activism on campus
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