By: James Kail, Point Park News Service Fed up with the lack of attention on his Carrick street, Neal Hinterlang felt the only way to overcome the disastrous January blizzard was to…
Category: Politics
The push for $15 an hour
College Students comment on the prospect of a higher minimum wage By James Kail, Point Park News Service: Casey McGaw, of Harrisburg, believes that Pennsylvania’s minimum wage is unlivable. Justin Hill a Robert…
Possible Solutions to Pennsylvania’s Gerrymandering Conundrum
Research from Carnegie Mellon University inspires proposed protocols to end issue By: Kimberly Keagy, Point Park News Service: When Carnegie Mellon University mathematician Alan Frieze started thinking about why half the state…
Reaction to President Trump
It’s been one year since American voters elected President Donald Trump, and a lot has happened since then. Point Park News Service journalists took to the streets of Downtown Pittsburgh to collect citizens’ thoughts… …
Election Day Coverage 2017
FOLLOW POINT PARK UNIVERSITY STUDENTS THROUGHOUT THE DAY AS THEY REPORT IN FROM POLLING PLACES AROUND WESTERN PA. The state of the polls in the morning Deborah McMullen, 54, arrived early to vote at Resurrection Church in Pittsburgh’s Brookline neighborhood before…
A Perfect Storm for an apocalypse
By Matt Bauman, Point Park News Service: In the spirit of thinking about the apocalypse for this symposium, naturally I turned to the news. It does seem like the end of days…
Pepe the Frog for President?
2016 Election leads to cutbacks for some social media users Phil Mangis likely never encountered Pepe the Frog. The data collector who works Downtown said he avoids social media and has no…
Pepe the Frog for President?
2016 Election leads to cutbacks for some social media users Phil Mangis likely never encountered Pepe the Frog. The data collector who works Downtown said he avoids social media and has no…
PA budget deadlock hits students in the wallet
By Phillip Poupore, Point Park News Service: Point Park University senior Brittany Lauffer has had to pick up additional work this fall because of the Pennsylvania budget impasse. The broadcast journalism major…
Election Day in Pittsburgh area
By Point Park News Service: Point Park University student photographers spread out across the Pittsburgh area to document Election Day 2014.