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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.

Life and death on Santron Ave

Voice on realities of addiction makes last stop

Gary Thomas Fisher Jr. knew that every shot was a gamble.

Riding OD road

How an unassuming city neighborhood became the overdose capital of the region

Down the stream

Pittsburgh’s climate is changing and some are fighting back

Pittsburgh’s powerful nonprofits

No longer just charities, Pittsburgh nonprofits have extraordinary influence on the economy, development, government

Angels, heartbreak and murder

The family of a young man with mental illness tried to get help, but couldn’t until he turned violent.

The limits of 8

Section 8 vouchers were designed to give low-income people choice in housing. A PG data analysis shows their choices are mainly in low-income areas

Power Struggle

IBEW president Herman Marshman finds himself in a fight not just with the company but with his own union members

Unsettled in America

Pittsburgh’s Latino community is small, diverse, growing — and anxious.