Reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette covering healthcare, natural gas drilling, and whatever else is intriguing.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Joined July 2014
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Us and our @PittsburghPG union siblings @CWADistrict213 & @Teamsters have been striking for 4+ months now — for each other, Pittsburgh, and news this community deserves.
Today we're telling our story as we ask for your support.
Please watch & visit UnionProgress.com/donate ✊
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The more Southtown veterans in leadership positions, the better a news org becomes. Congratulations Tribune for promoting @pjurik to where he belongs.
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Could our little strike "paper" get 180+ new followers in a little more than a day to surpass 6,000 in 2022? Who would have believed that we'd surpass 5,800 in 10 weeks? Subscribe to us -- still free -- and we'll be delighted to send you our newsletter: unionprogress.com/subscribe/
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PUP Sunday read: Join our John Santa and @stevemellon412 at @ClementeMuseum as fellow players, family and friends honor Roberto Clemente. 50 years later, says one admirer, "He's part of the soul of everybody in the city of Pittsburgh." unionprogress.com/2022/12/31…
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PUP Sunday read: Our @LauraLegere reports on @PennsylvaniaDEP's candid assessment, “The conventional oil and gas industry’s recent record of compliance with Pennsylvania law is simply not good.” unionprogress.com/2023/01/01…
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PUP Sunday read: Our Susan Banks talks with local @audubonsociety experts about an enjoyable and easy hobby: Feeding and watching the birds. She can help get you started: unionprogress.com/2023/01/01…
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PUP Sunday read and stunning visual treat: Our @Hannah_SWyman and photographer @guidry_vietnam catch up with @cityofasylum artist in residence Mai Khoi, who is one bad activist: unionprogress.com/2023/01/01…
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PUP Sunday read: Our roads scholar @EdBlazina outlines $200 million in work coming to the Parkway East. A @PennDOTNews exec tells him, "We’re going to ask for a lot of patience from the public. But we’ve got to get this work done to protect our assets.” unionprogress.com/2023/01/01…
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Happy New Year! Hope you're having as much fun as our @NatJDuleb, who, after getting veterans' advice and looking out at the flowing Mon River, stripped down to her swim suit, calculated the jump and leaped. "When I tell you it was cold, I mean COLD." unionprogress.com/2023/01/01…
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I've worked at the Post-Gazette, so I know what it looks like when a rich guy thinks OWNING a media outlet is the same as UNDERSTANDING it. The related fallacy is that because ownership gives you the right to do something, whatever you do is going to be right...
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Every single boys soccer player at QV has been positively impacted by Derek. He is one of the main reasons we have been so successful in recent years!
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Our year-end promo video and goals compilation is now on YouTube. We hope you enjoy it!
youtu.be/WE1YGye7Viw
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Wonderful news: In just 24 hours our solidarity fund raised more than $23,000. We are humbled by the support of the community we strive to serve with our strike and beyond.
Can you chip in to feed our fight further?
DONATE HERE:
pghguild.com/donate-strike-f…
'Well, it doesn’t make me like him any less. I still love Art,” author Roy Blount Jr., who wrote Three Bricks Shy of a Load, said after learning details about Art Rooney's life as a racketeer. “The NFL should only be that interesting today.' @royblountjr newsinteractive.post-gazette…
'It’s amazing how successful Rooney was at keeping his name out of the courts and the newspapers for so long,' said historian David Rotenstein @iVernacular. “What is the biggest surprise to me is how successful the story has been submerged." newsinteractive.post-gazette…
'We had a license from Pittsburgh, the state and the government,' said Jim Rooney, who fronted brother Art's slot machine co. for him. 'They were all licensed. But [the slot machines] were all phonies after a while' and paid off in cash instead of a mint. newsinteractive.post-gazette…
Officers were stunned when they raided a well equiped horse room at Fort Pitt Hotel in 1948: 'How do they get that kind of equipment into a hotel room and no one getting wise?' the lead det. asked. Rooney & Barney McGinley owned it but were never charged. newsinteractive.post-gazette…
Convinced someone was protecting the Show Boat, an illegal casino and drinking nightclub operated by Rooney & Milt Jaffe & raided by feds in 1930, the county DA said: 'I mean to learn who gave this protection, if it is possible.' It was never possible. newsinteractive.post-gazette…
