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. […]
Housing Crisis Impacts Hill District Residents
By Carl Redwood In Pittsburgh there is an affordable housing crisis, which is most severely impacting families and households with very low and extremely low […]