Environment and health reporter @PublicSourcePA. Formerly @PennLive, @905wesa, @kansasdotcom, @newmarkjschool. Send tips to [email protected]
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I am excited to be back working on stories in the Pittsburgh-area and especially excited to be back @PublicSourcePA where I worked from 2017-22.
Here's a few examples of the kind of work they've been doing that is so unique and essential. /1
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Our latest @PhillyInquirer story on gambling apps: FanDuel wants its heavy bettors to bring their children to the Philadelphia Zoo this weekend for an "exclusive FanDuel VIP event." Addiction experts said they appear to be targeting kids.
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We’re going to be doing more stories like this in the coming months at @PhillyInquirer. Please reach out with tips or if have an experience with online gambling you’d like to share.
For Pennsylvanians who buy Affordable Care Act health insurance, the average premium has increased more than 35% over two years. A Monroeville therapist is among those facing difficult choices about whether to pay up – or gamble on their health.
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In which I ask myself: What if my household didn’t suffer from workism? What if we signed on to the proposition that defining success as the ability to hold a job and pay taxes was a form of ableism? substack.com/home/post/p-220…
NBC News: The person who took down the gunman in Bend, OR yesterday has been identified as Kaylub Giamanco, 36, his brother, Kyle Giamanco, tells NBC's @LizKreutzNews
Here's how his brother he intervened: nbcnews.com/news/us-news/liv…
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When kids are assembled in a building, on a regular basis, and taught math, reading, geography, etc., what is that? A school? A daycare? Hybrid homeschools like Roots Learning Academy raise questions about which state rules apply publicsource.org/homeschooli…
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An important and poignant perspective on ESPN's embrace of sports gambling
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Data centers last night: Elizabeth Township folks panned a proposal to build a 3 million sq ft campus overlooking the Youghiogheny. “We’re at step one, maybe step two. There’s probably 100 steps," the developer said publicsource.org/data-center…
While Allegheny County faces is dealing with its first couple of measles cases, @hannamwebster reports that a sixth Pennsylvania resident has died from measeles in Franklin County.
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"We have at least 4 outages every year that are longer than a day and in the last two years we’ve had outages longer than 5 days." - Alicia from Aspinwall publicsource.org/duquesne-li…
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Once-feared Isaias is, in Pittsburgh, just a rainy, breezy day. Yet thousands of Duquesne Light customers have seen hourslong power outages. @PublicSourcePA asked you whether blackouts are darkening your quality of life publicsource.org/duquesne-li…
Allegheny County Health Department officials initially reported no connection between a measles case and exposure at a McKnight Road Target and a school exposure. News that the infected kids share a school “significantly expands” the investigation.
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The Allegheny County Health Department is working with officials at the private religious school where the child attends to try to contain the spread.
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Nikole Hannah Jones and others have long argued that in order to fix schools, we need to start by integrating them.
For Vox I wrote about how DC shows the opposite may be true: Fixing your schools can help integrate them. vox.com/policy/505269/washin…
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ALCOSAN issued a $1 billion contract to dig a 5-mile tunnel along the North Shore and across the Ohio to McKees Rocks. Flush in any of 83 communities around Pittsburgh? Then you’re paying for it. I asked: How is that being shared with diverse contractors? publicsource.org/alcosan-ohi…
"The sewer agency aims to steer 10% to 25% of project dollars to minority- or women-owned business enterprises. For its big dig along the Ohio River, the prime contract shows less than 1% of the work heading to MBEs, with 9% to WBEs."
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Inside our newsroom: How your feedback is shaping our journalism
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FIGURES: A West Virginia researcher crunching state betting numbers finds 43M bets placed by just ~16K bettors. And when does demand spike for slots? Every second, third and fourth Wednesday — Social Security payday. @MyBuckhannon mybuckhannon.com/high-roller…
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Your ability to vote by mail probably shouldn't be news in 2026, but President Trump sought to exert federal control over the process. Here are your voting options in Allegheny County from now until Nov. 3 publicsource.org/allegheny-c…
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Ever bike the Great Allegheny Passage? Pass Dravo Cemetery in the direction of West Newton, look up to your right, and that’s the area of Elizabeth Township that could become the site of this proposed data center publicsource.org/elizabeth-t…
Some the details from the Philly Inquirer's Sunday story on the rise of online gambling addiction in Pennsylvania.
Story by David Gambacorta and William Bender @wbender99
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