Mon-Oakland Link Opponents Demand Transparency
An OPN News Special Report With the Fall 2018 release of Pittsburgh’s Amazon bid titled Future. Forged. For All., citizens learned the details of the […]
Local Officials Craft Secret Proposal to Lure Amazon to Pittsburgh
OPN News Special Labor Report Pittsburgh’s new development boom, enabled in part by hefty business tax breaks, inadequate oversight, and a good bit of non-transparency, […]
This Hallowed Ground
An OPN News Editorial “All that harms Labor is treason to America” Abraham Lincoln Since Amazon launched it’s “Who Want’s to Bribe a Billionaire?” sweepstakes, […]
Making Pittsburgh Great Again?
URA/Private Partners Renew Push For Controversial Project OPN‘s investigative article in March 2016 about a Public/Private partnership formed between the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), University […]
Protesters Occupy Trees in Battle Over ETC Pipeline
by Michael Bagdes-Canning Federal Marshals with automatic weapons and bullet proof vests. Sheriff’s deputies and state troopers dispatched to “keep people safe.” Something terrible must […]
The Silent Majority: Photographing Donald Trump’s Rallies
By Robert Lee Bailey I just wanted to ignore Donald Trump’s campaign. Like so many other people, I thought it would fizzle out at some […]
URA Files Suspect Development Grant Without Consulting Residents
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an article on August 29, 2015, revealing that one month earlier, on July 31, the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh submitted […]
The “New” East Liberty
By Greg Godels The catchword is “gentrification”—the popular and relatively benign word for a process of displacement and neglect of poor and minority communities in […]
Preserving the Soul of Pittsburgh
By Ray Gerard Increasingly, concerned groups are pointing out that Pittsburgh’s development policies are having hugely negative effects on the very neighborhoods they’re supposedly developing. […]