Mike Wereschagin
@wereschagin.bsky.social
Assistant managing editor, data and investigations @post-gazette.com. Co-author, Gone at 3:17, the story of the worst school disaster in U.S. history (http://bit.ly/4lfcKRi). Under water whenever possible.
Physicians raise concerns about federal hep B vaccine change www.post-gazette.com/news/health/... by @hannamwebster.bsky.social
Physicians raise concerns about federal hep B vaccine change
Providers are reeling from a change last week by a federal agency responsible for setting and updating vaccination guidelines for American children and...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Physicians raise concerns about federal hep B vaccine change www.post-gazette.com/news/health/... by @hannamwebster.bsky.social
In a surprise move, Congress reverses course — saves Naval Reserve Centers near Pittsburgh, scores of other cities www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... via @post-gazette.com
In a surprise move, Congress reverses course — saves Naval Reserve Centers near Pittsburgh, scores of other cities
WASHINGTON — More than a hundred Navy Reserve Centers across the country will continue to operate after Congress reversed course on a controversial...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
In a surprise move, Congress reverses course — saves Naval Reserve Centers near Pittsburgh, scores of other cities www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... via @post-gazette.com
Pittsburgh City Council member to propose a 30% tax increase to close budget gap www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... via @post-gazette.com
Pittsburgh City Council member to propose a 30% tax increase to close budget gap
With what could be the first tax increase in a decade, Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Barb Warwick announced Monday morning that she would introduce legislation...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Pittsburgh City Council member to propose a 30% tax increase to close budget gap www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... via @post-gazette.com
Trump’s upcoming visit to northeast Pa. stokes 2026 battles over economy, health care www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... via @post-gazette.com
Trump’s upcoming visit to northeast Pa. stokes 2026 battles over economy, health care
Last week, the national average price of gas dipped below $3 for the first time in four years. The median rent for U.S. apartments has dropped for four...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Trump’s upcoming visit to northeast Pa. stokes 2026 battles over economy, health care www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... via @post-gazette.com
Prospects dim for extension of Obamacare tax credits www.post-gazette.com/business/hea... via @post-gazette.com
Prospects dim for extension of Obamacare tax credits
Prospects dim for extension of Obamacare tax credits — ‘I just want a fair chance at life.’
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December 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Developers break ground on historic Esplanade project www.post-gazette.com/business/dev... via @post-gazette.com
Developers break ground on historic Esplanade project
Developers on Monday lifted the first shovelfuls of dirt to transform acres of empty land along the Ohio River into luxury high-rises, a marina, houseboats...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Winter storm hits Pittsburgh: Some schools close as heaviest snow falls during morning commute www.post-gazette.com/news/weather... by @lpshachnow.bsky.social
Winter storm hits Pittsburgh: Some schools close as heaviest snow falls during morning commute
Storm resources
• Closings and delays
• Who plows my roads?
• Traffic map
• Pittsburgh International Airport flight statuses
•...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Winter storm hits Pittsburgh: Some schools close as heaviest snow falls during morning commute www.post-gazette.com/news/weather... by @lpshachnow.bsky.social
Shapiro says Trump administration not 'minding the shop' as DHS targets immigrant truckers www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... by @benkail.bsky.social
Shapiro says Trump administration not 'minding the shop' as DHS targets immigrant truckers
The recent arrest of an alleged Uzbek terrorist who obtained a Pennsylvania commercial driver’s license this summer has stirred calls for investigations...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Shapiro says Trump administration not 'minding the shop' as DHS targets immigrant truckers www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... by @benkail.bsky.social
Rep. Chris Deluzio among group of Democratic veterans Trump threatens with violent rhetoric www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... by @samjanesch.bsky.social
Rep. Chris Deluzio among group of Democratic veterans Trump threatens with violent rhetoric
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday lashed out at a small group of Democratic veteran lawmakers that included U.S. Rep. Chris...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Rep. Chris Deluzio among group of Democratic veterans Trump threatens with violent rhetoric www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... by @samjanesch.bsky.social
Live updates: Pittsburgh International Airport's new terminal officially opens www.post-gazette.com/news/transpo... via @post-gazette.com
Live updates: Pittsburgh International Airport's new terminal officially opens
The new PIT terminal
• From parking to TSA and baggage, what to know about the new terminal
• Spanish architect inspired by Pittsburgh and its...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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“It's not the same neighborhood anymore." In Pittsburgh's West End, a contested City Council race for what some call a 'forgotten' district www.post-gazette.com/news/electio... via @post-gazette.com
In Pittsburgh's West End, a contested City Council race for what some call a 'forgotten' district
On the steep Elkton Street in Elliott, weeds rise through the cracks of sidewalks and wrap around the boarded-up windows of abandoned homes.
Annette...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“It's not the same neighborhood anymore." In Pittsburgh's West End, a contested City Council race for what some call a 'forgotten' district www.post-gazette.com/news/electio... via @post-gazette.com
Top lawmakers move to shut down U.S. naval reserve centers — including key Pittsburgh facility www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... via @post-gazette.com
Top lawmakers move to shut down U.S. naval reserve centers — including key Pittsburgh facility
WASHINGTON — In a move that has sparked internal backlash among the nation’s veterans, congressional leaders are threatening to shutdown the...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Top lawmakers move to shut down U.S. naval reserve centers — including key Pittsburgh facility www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... via @post-gazette.com
Penguins’ exclusive rights to redevelop the lower Hill expiring after nearly two decades www.post-gazette.com/business/dev... by @madaleinerubin.bsky.social
Penguins’ exclusive rights to redevelop the lower Hill expiring after nearly two decades
After nearly two decades of stalled plans — and clashing at times with community groups — the Pittsburgh Penguins’ hold over the lower...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Penguins’ exclusive rights to redevelop the lower Hill expiring after nearly two decades www.post-gazette.com/business/dev... by @madaleinerubin.bsky.social
300,000 Pittsburgh-area residents will lose SNAP benefits amid government shutdown www.post-gazette.com/business/mon... via @post-gazette.com
300,000 Pittsburgh-area residents will lose SNAP benefits amid government shutdown
‘It’s a choking of people.”
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October 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
300,000 Pittsburgh-area residents will lose SNAP benefits amid government shutdown www.post-gazette.com/business/mon... via @post-gazette.com
‘Stop playing games’: Pa. budget impasse leads to financial bleeding at school districts www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... via @post-gazette.com
‘Stop playing games’: Pa. budget impasse leads to financial bleeding at school districts
HARRISBURG — Lost interest income in a public school district, officials say, can be thought of as lost opportunity — and right now there is...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
‘Stop playing games’: Pa. budget impasse leads to financial bleeding at school districts www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... via @post-gazette.com
Pa. communities torn over ICE crackdown on immigrants using local officers www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-c... via @post-gazette.com
Pa. communities torn over ICE crackdown on immigrants using local officers
For U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it was hailed as a critical program that would give local law enforcement agents sweeping powers to stop,...
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October 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Pa. communities torn over ICE crackdown on immigrants using local officers www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-c... via @post-gazette.com
"We get something that’s working, and people are enthused about it … then, poof, gone." Pittsburgh to end co-response program that teams social workers with police officers www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-c... by @meganguzapg.bsky.social
Pittsburgh to end co-response program that teams social workers with police officers
City leaders are abandoning Pittsburgh’s co-response program, which places a police officer and social worker in the same vehicle to respond to mental...
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October 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"We get something that’s working, and people are enthused about it … then, poof, gone." Pittsburgh to end co-response program that teams social workers with police officers www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-c... by @meganguzapg.bsky.social
Ohio man who left antisemitic flyers in Squirrel Hill guilty of 160 littering violations www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-c... by @meganguzapg.bsky.social
Ohio man who left antisemitic flyers in Squirrel Hill guilty of 160 littering violations
A district judge on Tuesday found an Ohio man guilty of the more than 150 litter-related charges filed against him in the aftermath of an antisemitic flyer...
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August 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Ohio man who left antisemitic flyers in Squirrel Hill guilty of 160 littering violations www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-c... by @meganguzapg.bsky.social
"It's a death sentence for these men." Missed inspections, enforcement failures imperil the lives of coal miners post-gazette.com/news/health/... by @michaeldsallah.bsky.social, @cloutierjr.bsky.social, the Medill Investigative Lab and me
Deadly dust: Missed inspections, enforcement failures imperil the lives of coal miners
Deep in the earth's crust, the toxic substance rises in the air as miners drill into massive layers of rock.
As they work the controls of the big machines,...
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August 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"It's a death sentence for these men." Missed inspections, enforcement failures imperil the lives of coal miners post-gazette.com/news/health/... by @michaeldsallah.bsky.social, @cloutierjr.bsky.social, the Medill Investigative Lab and me
The Strip District is preparing for another massive growth spurt www.post-gazette.com/business/dev... by @madaleinerubin.bsky.social
The Strip District is preparing for another massive growth spurt
In the center of the Strip District, a red crane hovers over road closure signs, traffic cones and a four-story building encased in yellow fiberglass —...
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August 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The Strip District is preparing for another massive growth spurt www.post-gazette.com/business/dev... by @madaleinerubin.bsky.social
Clairton Coke Works employee describes blast that sounded like ‘two trains colliding’ — then silence www.post-gazette.com/business/car... via @post-gazette.com
Clairton Coke Works employee describes blast that sounded like ‘two trains colliding’ — then silence
The first thing Andrew Macey thought about as he arrived at work at the Clairton Coke Works on Tuesday morning were the cars that remained. Two of them...
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August 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Clairton Coke Works employee describes blast that sounded like ‘two trains colliding’ — then silence www.post-gazette.com/business/car... via @post-gazette.com
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Layoffs, property sales, fundraising drives: How public radio, TV stations plan to survive without federal funding
Layoffs, property sales, fundraising drives: How public radio, TV stations plan to survive without federal funding
The passage of a bill that slashed more than $1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting has public radio and TV stations looking at selling...
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August 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Layoffs, property sales, fundraising drives: How public radio, TV stations plan to survive without federal funding
Cryptocurrency firm among dark money donors in race for Pittsburgh mayor www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... via @post-gazette.com
Cryptocurrency firm among dark money donors in race for Pittsburgh mayor
For cryptocurrency investors, the Blockchain Innovation Project promotes itself as a fierce advocate “against the political forces in Washington...
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August 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Cryptocurrency firm among dark money donors in race for Pittsburgh mayor www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... via @post-gazette.com
5,000 miles away, a Pittsburgh seismograph picked up the Pacific earthquake that triggered tsunami warnings www.post-gazette.com/news/environ... by @lpshachnow.bsky.social
5,000 miles away, a Pittsburgh seismograph picked up the Pacific earthquake that triggered tsunami warnings
About 5,000 miles away from one of the strongest earthquakes in recorded history, an instrument on the North Side recorded the action.
The seismograph at...
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July 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
5,000 miles away, a Pittsburgh seismograph picked up the Pacific earthquake that triggered tsunami warnings www.post-gazette.com/news/environ... by @lpshachnow.bsky.social
WQED lays off 19 employees following federal funding cuts for public radio www.post-gazette.com/ae/tv-radio/... via @post-gazette.com
WQED lays off 19 employees following federal funding cuts for public media
Less than two weeks after Congress passed sweeping spending cuts that targeted public broadcasting, WQED — one of the oldest public television stations...
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July 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
WQED lays off 19 employees following federal funding cuts for public radio www.post-gazette.com/ae/tv-radio/... via @post-gazette.com