Dispatchers Striking, Hate Group Funding, And Sky-High Airport Prices
For our Friday news roundup, the City Cast Pittsburgh team discusses the movement to encourage a local foundation to stop funding hate groups; a possible dispatcher strike on the day of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade; and rising prices at the Pittsburgh International Airport. We also dig back into a story about regional police charging sex workers with “possessing an instrument of crime” if they carry condoms.
Check them out:
- Jordana Rosenfeld for City Paper on the Colcom Foundation: https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/over-70-organizations-demand-colcom-foundation-stop-funding-anti-immigrant-groups/Content?oid=21201599
- Jesse Bunch for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the dispatcher strike: https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2022/03/01/Allegheny-County-911-dispatchers-strike-notice-St-Patrick-Day-union-parade-March-12-SEIU/stories/202203010104
- Kiley Koscinski on 90.5 WESA on rising airport costs: https://www.wesa.fm/development-transportation/2022-03-01/audit-shows-some-items-cost-nearly-twice-as-much-at-pittsburgh-international-airport
- And John Oliver’s most recent episode on sex work, featuring reporting by the Tribune-Review’s Megan Guza: https://archive.triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/condoms-criminalized-in-allegheny-county-prostitution-cases/
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