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Kate is covering the impact of COVID-19 on the economy.

She covered poverty, social services and affordable housing at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for nearly five years; prior to that she spent several years in the paper’s Harrisburg bureau covering the legislature, governor, and state government.

She was part of the P-G staff that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting on the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. She has won numerous state and local awards for her reporting and was honored with a 2020 Keystone Media Award for her beat reporting on poverty.

She also previously reported for several newspapers in Ohio and covered the steel industry for a trade publication.

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Records obtained by Spotlight PA and WESA reveal how Pa. counties used tens of millions in opioid settlement dollars

Counties are waiting to hear if an oversight board will publicly approve their strategies.
By Ed Mahon/Spotlight PA and Kate Giammarise/WESA


GET THE RECORDS: How we’re tracking more than $100M in opioid settlement money in Pa.

Spotlight PA and WESA are requesting opioid settlement spending reports from all 67 counties in Pennsylvania to provide transparency into the process.

By Ed Mahon/Spotlight PA and Kate Giammarise/WESA


Oversight board will secretly review how Pa. counties spent millions of dollars to fight opioid crisis

Counties must report how they spent tens of millions of dollars they received in the first rounds of opioid settlement payments.
By Ed Mahon/Spotlight PA and Kate Giammarise/WESA


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