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 […]
Environment
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
Photo by Ray Gerard
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 […]
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 […]