How a rock-n-roll poet aided one Pittsburgher's mental health journey.
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** URA sells off land for affordable housing, approves first-time homebuyer plan ([link removed])
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** These teens are fighting to change the rhetoric and reality around youth violence in the Pittsburgh area ([link removed])
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** "Making change": Youth violence and its effects in Pittsburgh [link removed]
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** Essay: One love, one fight for tomorrow ([link removed])
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“When violence happens, it changes lives and when lives change, the environment changes, and when the environment changes, the community changes, and when your community and the world change, you must adapt and change with it,” writes Deahmi Mobley, a teen essayist. ([link removed])
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** ‘How I can make a change’: Youth programs are helping the next generation halt the cycle of gun violence ([link removed])
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** Allegheny County, 2023
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This fall, yet-unnamed contenders will vie for county executive, the most powerful political post in Western Pennsylvania. What should their platforms address? We want your input, for use in a coming story. Email your top 3 county government priorities, and any other thoughts, to
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** When a Jeep smashed me and my bicycle, it flattened my life’s mission – and then came the traffic ticket ([link removed])
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"Soon, I started re-thinking and re-imagining street design and cities and dreaming how much more efficient and fun and affordable life could be if everyone had the option to safely choose bicycles," the essayist writes. ([link removed])
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** Programming in PA prisons gave this lifer purpose ([link removed])
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** Pitt students demand safety measures following a campus assault ([link removed])
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