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A constitutional weapon:
environmental rights reimagined in Pennsylvania

Recent state Supreme Court decisions have people testing the boundaries of a 1970s state Constitutional amendment

Turning the lights back on

As coal-fired power plants switch off, Pennsylvania looks to bring in new businesses.

Alexa, do you speak Pittsburghese?

Fair Housing is 50, but has its promise been realized?

Woodland Hills, a district scarred by violence, copes with tragedy

Schools can be first defense against addiction

The OD of an alumnus. The cry of a student with a parent in addiction. The community’s opioid cloud. Schools are waking up to the epidemic.

If Amazon came to Hazelwood…

Lies, false charges and jail

A Pittsburgh couple’s two-year ordeal battling the criminal justice system.

Urgency, anger and a local focus fuel black activism in Pittsburgh

“This is going to be a catalyst. We’re taking back our community.”

Modern-day debtors’ prisons? The system that sends Pennsylvanians to jail over unpaid court costs and fines

The ACLU is intervening across the country in cases where the poor are jailed for failure to make court payments.