“So make your playlist. Dance if you’d like. Call a doctor. Insist on good care. Sometimes you might need medication. It’s OK,” writes one Pittsburgher.
"So as I’m writing this essay, I’m really thinking to myself like, I don’t wanna go through this again. I don’t wanna have to see my little cousins go through this again. I don’t wanna have to, you know, see somebody’s mother go through this again,” said Jaia Harrison, age 14. " Listen to more of Jaia's reflections here.
"Making change": Youth violence and its effects in Pittsburgh
“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.
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 Reporter Charlie Wolfson at [email protected].
"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.
More than half of sexual assaults among college students occur in the fall. Resources, survivor stories and investigation into what’s being done to protect those at risk in the Pittsburgh area: Explore the Red Zone series.
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