Marita Garrett working inside her Wilkinsburg office.
Jake Mysliwczyk / Pittsburgh Current
Marita Garrett working inside her Wilkinsburg office.
Jake Mysliwczyk / Pittsburgh Current
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Chardae Jones recently became the first black female mayor of Braddock, joining four other women currently serving with the same distinction in Western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh Current’s Bethany Ruhe pulled together this profile.
Aqua America Inc. plans to challenge a rate hike that would generate $60 million for the struggling city of Chester and avoid what city officials say would be an even greater increase. Delco Times reporter Alex Rose wrote about what he heard on the multibillion-dollar utility’s recent call with shareholders, along with applicable background, in this story. I did this explainer a while back on why Pa.’s water is so expensive.
Technically Pa.’s smallest city, Centralia’s population has dwindled to fewer than a dozen people due to an underground mine fire (which is slowly migrating). A 100-foot sinkhole recently opened up in the tiny town — but it’s unrelated to the fire. This story explains what’s going on.
StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Susan Phillips did a deep dive into Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan’s investigation of the Mariner East 2 pipeline on the latest episode of WHYY’s The Why. Listen here.
Counties have to upgrade their voting machines before the 2020 primary in Pennsylvania as part of a lawsuit settlement. It’s expected to cost the between $125 million and $150 million collectively. Gov. Tom Wolf proposed rebating counties at least half that over the next five years, but the GOP-dominated Legislature has to approve it. The issue was the main focus of a Department of State budget hearing, which Katie Meyer covered for WITF.
“We Buy Houses” — certainly, you’ve seen the posters. Katie Blackley went behind the signs for this WESA story.
The days of journalism’s one-way street of simply producing stories for the public have long been over. Now, it’s time to find better ways to interact with you and ensure we meet your high standards of what a credible media organization should be.