The Roberto Clemente Bridge should become a linear park
Editor’s note: This is the first Guest Commentary published by Pittsburgh’s Public Source. For more information on this new community storytelling space, click here. Beloved by Pittsburghers, the Roberto Clemente Bridge is known, too, across the country from frequent telecasts of Steelers and Pirates games. As a local architect, though, I have always thought of…
Cuts in funds for HIV services threaten medication access, outreach
Nearly 40 people — many of whom are HIV-positive — gathered for a meal in a former Methodist church in Bloomfield Friday evening. Some had just…
All gifts to the Pittsburgh’s Public Source nonprofit newsroom are now matched
As a valued reader, you know we work hard to provide the information people in our region need, when they need it, without paywalls. We’re proud to serve…
Honoring Maggie Patterson’s decade of service to Pittsburgh’s Public Source
As one of Public Source’s founding board members, Maggie Jones Patterson served with us for a full decade, offering her time, expertise and thoughtfulness in every setting. She…
Trump change in visa fee could curb hiring by Pitt, BNY, UPMC and others
The eds-and-meds economy that reshaped Pittsburgh after the collapse of steelmaking relies on skilled international workers living in the U.S. on H-1B visas. But a federal shakeup to…
From singing robots to living laboratories, care leaders seek solutions to aging Pittsburgh’s needs
At first glance, the three-story house at 257 Oakland Ave. looks like any aging Pittsburgh home: a narrow red brick façade, steep stairs and low doorways. Inside, though,…
A writers club for older adults soothed my grief as we’ve ‘ranted, raved and wrangled’ with aging
When my husband, my lover, friend and partner for nearly 67 years died during the COVID epidemic, I was too shaken to pay much attention to what was…