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Welcome to your Saturday roundup! Let's dive in...

🎭 Living with autism can make every encounter feel like a performance, Eli Kurs-Lasky writes in a first-person essay about coming to terms with his disability in a world built around neurotypical expectations. 

🦟 Allegheny County is seeing some of the highest West Nile virus activity in the state this summer. But, efforts to control mosquito populations pose risks to the local ecology.


🏫 PPS consultants proposed a plan that would shutter several school buildings, reconfigure grade groupings and phase out most of its current magnet programs. We brought you the details in partnership with WESA.

Now, catch up on the local news you may have missed this week ⬇️

‘Yes and’: My lifetime of chasing the perfect performance to seem neurotypical

 

Allegheny County ramps up mosquito control. Could it harm local ecosystems?
 
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Closures, grade reconfigurations and magnet phase-outs floated in PPS facilities plan 
 

A day in Summer B.O.O.S.T: Combating learning loss with fun activities at PPS
 

August Wilson’s “Radio Golf” explores race, class and gentrification on the Hill
 

ICYMI FROM LAST WEEK
  • For many, gaining sight as an adult would seem like an unquestionable gain. But for Olivia Durant, it brought a traumatic reckoning, then a new life of flourishing.
  • A year after the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh pledged to improve its Section 8 program, the numbers are up, but landlord concerns persist.
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