This is a set of articles in which leaders of local service organizations describe the possible impacts of proposed federal budget cuts on the services they provide and the issues that concern […]
Bad Budgets = Bad Results
Taking a Stand: Pipelines
April 1, 2017 By Wanda Guthrie “We must learn that to passively accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil… The […]
Seeking Food Security For All in PA
April 1, 2017 By Joyce Rothermel Since 1983, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has funded a program to assist families who lack the resources to obtain the food they need: the State Food […]
Highly Radioactive Liquid Nuclear Waste Shipments Set to Begin
February 1, 2017 By Molly Rush On February 17th truckloads of highly radioactive liquid waste may begin their journey along public highways, from on the edge of Lake Ontario and the Niagara River in […]
Dom Costa Needs to Stand With All Immigrants in PA
February 2, 2017 By Marni Fritz Pittsburgh, PA – At 10 AM today, a delegation of 25 constituents and immigrant rights advocates visited the Morningside office of Representative Dom Costa (D, Stanton […]
Pennsylvania’s Faculty Strike and Labor’s Future
By Neil Cosgrove When the faculty of 14 Pennsylvania state-owned universities ended their strike on its third day, their union, the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF), had “agreed […]
Breaking Down the Empathy Walls Between Us
By Scilla Wahrhaftig I, like many others, have been asking myself what went wrong? What could we have done to have prevented the catastrophe that Trump’s presidency is likely to bring […]
Election Night from the Perspective of a Queer Millennial
By Tallon Kennedy Wisconsin turns red. Wisconsin wasn’t even supposed to be in play tonight. Wisconsin was supposed to be a given for Hillary. Just drink more wine. Pennsylvania turns red, and […]
The Geography of Trump
By Neil Cosgrove One local, hard-to-miss feature of the weeks leading up to the November 8th election was the proliferation of Hillary Clinton lawn signs within the city of Pittsburgh, and the […]
March to Take Back Our Economy!
November 29, 2016 By Neil Cosgrove Photos By Neil Cosgrove and Nina Young Several hundred protestors, including many from the Merton Center, took part in a rally and march for a $15 […]
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