Voters in Pittsburgh suburbs could decide the 2024 election. In one of our latest election stories, we examine what issues are motivating voters in two local boroughs where votes split down the middle in 2020.

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On prices, production and employment, campaigns offer wildly different narratives. Here are the facts for Pittsburgh and environs.

Data suggests that Pittsburgh’s economy — like the nation’s — has recovered from COVID-induced lull, though with its own strengths and challenges. 

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• Mayor Ed Gainey’s administration released a policy on the use of AI tools following a PublicSource story and a request under the Right-to-Know Law.
• After a 9-year-old’s death riding her bike, Homewood grieves and the cycling community joins the neighborhood’s call for safety measures.
• Long back-burnered by the City Planning Commission, Walnut Capital’s plan to add housing and retail to its Bakery Square development straddling Larimer and East Liberty now goes to Pittsburgh City Council.
• Abortion and climate change cases await decisions from Pennsylvania's highest courts. However, it can take months or years for the justices to render their opinions, Spotlight PA reports.
• Want to know what’s moving voters who could swing Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral college votes to Trump or Harris? Ask around Shaler and West Mifflin.

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