While documenting local political turmoil in Monessen, Pennsylvania, the mayor vanished for nearly two years, leaving his council and the town to drift. Upon his return—firing city officials left and right, passing motions behind closed doors and keeping the truth locked away from the people—the town clawed for a voice. Media law pros jumped into the fray, lending their weight to a place grasping for its lost representation, and this coverage helped push the lawsuit that finally brought justice home.
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In a family of seven, all tangled in the grip of kidney failure and fighting the slow crawl of disease, one sister remains untouched. She left Pennsylvania in 1973, like she knew what was coming. The matriarch blames the air, the water, the slow poison of the postindustrial South. She's convinced it’s a heavy sky or a tainted river running through her veins while she awaits her transplant.
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A former reality TV star took me on a tour of her wild farm, schooling me on her birds and bees—she's deep in honey-making and the commercial business of bee-breeding. Winters have been biting harder each year and she’s started shipping her bees down South to labor through the cold. Despite this pivot, the beekeeper hesitates to name the beast—climate change.
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Pre-COVID, an alarming number of small-town Pennsylvania residents chose to avoid vaccination for their children enrolled in public school, raising concern from medical experts and lawmakers who fear the un-vaxxed number is on track to surpass the 5% variant threshold, thereby heightening the risk of contraction of long-mitigated communicable diseases. Interviews with anti-vaxxing moms give insight into their medical and philosophical influences for abstaining.
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Crew from The Globe and media partners U-View and WPPJ hit the road for D.C., chasing Trump’s inauguration as the 45th president. From protests in the streets to rallies thick with voices, we captured it all—print, photos, video, audio—documenting the journey from Pittsburgh to D.C. It’s all there in a roar of history told through every lens we had.
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