By Jake Dabkowski Pittsburgh is the first city in the country to introduce legislation designed to shield abortion providers from out-of-state criminal investigations, Pittsburgh City Councilman Bobby Wilson said in a press conference Tuesday. Wilson…
Jody DiPerna
Jody DiPerna writes (mostly) about books for the Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. She conducted one of her finest interviews in a laudromat on a lazy Sunday morning. She is at work on a larger project about the death of a small Western Pennsylvania mill town.
Hunger strike to protest solitary confinement at SWPa.…
by John L. Micek, Pennsylvania Capital-Star A hunger strike at a state prison in southwestern Pennsylvania went past its second week on Thursday, as a group of incarcerated individuals sought to end what they described…