Paul O’Hanlon calls it his “A-ha!” moment. It came around 2002, just as he was starting work as a voting-rights lawyer and learning about the National Voter Registration Act, a […]
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Paul O’Hanlon calls it his “A-ha!” moment. It came around 2002, just as he was starting work as a voting-rights lawyer and learning about the National Voter Registration Act, a […]
As part of Circles East Liberty, Eastminster Church hosted an exercise to demonstrate the daily grind of poverty. For one intensely compressed month, Christine Smith tried to live as “Robert […]
Shortly after Karen Hacker took on the job of director of the Allegheny County Health Department, she launched Live Well Allegheny, an initiative to try to improve the health of […]
In partnership with Just Harvest – a Pittsburgh organization that fights social injustice – East Liberty Development, Inc. (ELDI), Open Hand Ministries, Repair the World, and the East End Cooperative […]
Just Harvest won first place in the Farmers Market Coalition’s first-ever nationwide farmers market poster contest, beating out more than 160 entries for a prize of $1,000….
When Maria Almone, 92, of Brookline, found out that strawberries from Jodikino’s Farm in Clinton were $5 a quart at the Carrick farmers market, she said something she wouldn’t say […]
Pittsburgh Just Harvest is one of the winners in a poster contest run by the Farmers Market Coalition, a nonprofit “dedicated to strengthening farmers markets for the benefit of farmers, […]
Some Millvale residents say they hope a new community development initiative will bring a fresh food market to the borough. Local officials and Millvale Borough Development Corporation representatives kicked off […]
A Pennsylvania woman died two years before an unidentified welfare recipient used her Social Security number to collect $32,000 worth of public subsidies, according to a report state Auditor General […]
City residents can find the freshest offerings from local farms on Sundays in the Beacon-Bartlett parking lot off Murray Avenue, behind the former Gullifty’s restaurant. Food stamps via EBT are […]