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Drug companies pony up in illegal marketing cases, but critics wonder if...
If you make truck deliveries in the overcrowded downtown streets of a big city, parking tickets might simply be a cost of doing business. For top drug companies, critics say, there’s an equivalent...
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One out of every 11 organ donors is a person who has died from a drug overdose. This statistic is according to new government data reported by The Washington Post. The trend is a combination of rising...
View ArticleHigh school graduates aren’t feeling the economic recovery
It seems like everyone is going to college these days. And then more college, just packing on the degrees. But that’s not really the case. In fact, the Economic Policy Institute reports in a new study...
View ArticleStar ratings for hospitals are easy to understand, but are they too simple to...
The government is trying to hand out more star ratings in the healthcare world, and it’s causing drama. Tweet This time, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [CMS] is putting together a...
View ArticleFind out what’s behind last year’s spike in motorcycle deaths
Last year was a bad one for motorcyclists, with a new estimate showing that 5,010 bikers were killed in crashes nationwide, the worst death toll in seven years. The apparent 10 percent increase in...
View ArticleThe number of veterans who die by suicide every day is startling
Twenty veterans a day. That’s the 2014 average of how many men and women who have served in the U.S. military die by suicide. Every day. It’s slightly lower than the 2013 average, when it was estimated...
View ArticleA quick guide to the federal quality ratings doled out to Pittsburgh-area...
Consumers can now look up any hospital in the nation and quickly see how they rate on a simple five-star quality system. And when you zero in on Pittsburgh, you will see that none of the area hospitals...
View ArticleFormer death-row inmate shines light on hepatitis C drug denials in...
Since the highly effective and costly hepatitis C drugs came to market two years ago, it’s been a common refrain: Wait until you have irreversible liver damage and then you can be treated. This week,...
View ArticleProtect your right to know
Human stories are powerful. But data are critical to show you the whole picture. That's why as cumbersome as it is in the state of Pennsylvania to work with Right-to-Know (RTK) requests, they are the...
View ArticleI am a black girl and…: 11-year-old Keliyah wants to be a lawyer, sings a...
Keliyah Washington is 11 and lives in the Allentown neighborhood of Pittsburgh. As one of the younger girls to share about herself with PublicSource, we wanted to be sure she understood why she was...
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As homeschooling becomes more mainstream, is it right for my child? Here’s...
The question surprised both of us. “Do you like being homeschooled?” a woman asked my 8-year-old daughter Alina at our gym in Wexford. She was out of school sick that day. I didn’t think homeschool was...
View ArticlePittsburgh refuses to release city emails about disputed police IT projects...
Update (3/15/2018): The Pennsylvania Office of Open Records [OOR] ruled that the City of Pittsburgh must release to PublicSource the 11,092 emails it had located while conducting a records search for...
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My 6-year-old grandson thought a book character’s skin was ‘too dark.’ Here’s...
When my 6-year-old grandson told me he didn’t like the African-American girl in a book about diverse children because she was ‘too dark,’ I felt like the protagonist in the French film “Amélie” when...
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The people who filibustered Pittsburgh’s planning commission over plans for...
Jackie Smith, Ashley Cox, Dan Kubis, Rachel Brown, Adam Clark… The list read before the City of Pittsburgh Planning Commission on Tuesday afternoon included the names of almost 1,300 people who wrote...
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As a visa ‘dependent,’ it is hard to feel welcome
Editor’s Note: As journalists, we spend a lot of time talking with officials and community members and distilling it into stories that explore important issues of our time. But we realize that...
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I, too, was a child separated from my mother by the broken U.S. immigration...
Editor’s Note: As journalists, we spend a lot of time talking with officials and community members and distilling it into stories that explore important issues of our time. But we realize that...
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Photos: Activists demand justice for Antwon Rose Jr., an unarmed black teen...
Update (June 27, 2018): The Allegheny County District Attorney's Office charged East Pittsburgh Police officer Michael Rosfeld with criminal homicide in Antwon Rose Jr.'s death. His bail was set for...
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Pittsburgh task force takes on issue of landlords turning away renters with...
University of Pittsburgh law graduate Lukas Bagshaw has degrees in political science and economics from West Virginia University. Still, he couldn't find a place to rent in Pittsburgh. Money was not...
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PublicSource journalism recognized for its value in challenging times for media
Dear readers, We’re thrilled to share with you some good news. So far this year, PublicSource reporters have taken home 16 awards from local, state and regional journalism contests. In addition, the...
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