Pittsburgh’s Mayoral Race & The Path Forward
An OPN Special Report The upcoming Mayoral primary election on May 20 signifies another crossroads for the city of Pittsburgh—and a choice of which path to […]
Development
Dreams Come True When You’re CMU
By Junction Coalition In 2009, as Barack Obama settled into his first term as president and future Pittsburgh mayor Bill Peduto campaigned for another term […]
Hold Fast: Opposing the Nihilism of the Right
By Kate Luce Angell When Occupy Wall Street became news 10 years ago, I was a recently divorced mother of two young kids. My financial […]
Pittsburgh’s RCO Ordinance Caters to Developers While Stifling Grassroots Voices
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Pittsburgh’s Forests: Climate Carbon Bank or Developers’ Quick Buck?
By Matt Peters After several years of public comment and neighborhood meetings, the city of Pittsburgh in 2017 enacted a Climate Action Plan to establish […]
Multi-Community Coalition Rejects Mon-Oakland Mobility Plan
The proposed route of the controversial Mon-Oakland Connector project An OPN News Special Report The History An August 29, 2015 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article announced the […]
Preserving Our Parks
By Chris Zurawsky Pittsburgh’s Schenley Park was once a horseback riding haven. While the stables and a racetrack are long gone, the Bridle Trail remains—a […]
Project Elsewhere
An OPN News Editorial A devastating flash flood occurred in August of 2016 in the Four Mile Run (The Run) neighborhood of Pittsburgh. A resident […]
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, […]