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The identity and community desk explores how the makeup of the Pittsburgh community is changing, and digs into issues of diversity and equity.
Julia Zenkevich
The group Justice for Jim Rogers will hold a march on Saturday to remember him and call for the police officers involved to be criminally charged.
Shantale Davis
Julia Zenkevich
Many nonprofit executives are stressed out after two years of running their organizations during a pandemic. The Richard King Mellon Foundation and the McCune Foundation are hoping to help some local leaders take some much-needed time off by funding eight sabbaticals.
Experts and advocates fear the decline in Child Care Works enrollment is a sign the pandemic has forced low-income families to prioritize home care over earning a paycheck.
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Kevin Gavin
On today’s episode of The Confluence: Timothy Tomson, a pastor at St. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in McKees Rocks, shares how his parish is feeling and reacting to Russia’s invasion; and Spotlight PA’s Ed Mahon explains his latest investigation into misleading and possibly dangerous claims some Pennsylvania dispensaries are making about the ability to treat opioid use disorder with cannabis.
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