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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]