Tanisha Thomas | Tribune-Review
Signs displaying the face of former police officer Robert Gowans were brought to a May 17 rally to protest his hiring.
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After Penn Hills reversed course on the hiring of former Wilkinsburg officer Robert Gowans to its police department, Penn Hills Manager Scott Andrejchak said he regrets approving the hiring in the first place.
“I made a bad call,” Andrejchak said. “There were things that were overlooked.”
Penn Hills council held an emergency meeting May 17 that resulted in letting Gowans go after facing backlash from the community over his hiring in April.
Photo: Ben Petchel Natalie Bencivenga If there was a party going on in Pittsburgh, chances are likely Natalie Bencivenga was there taking notes. As the writer and editor of
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s SEEN column, Bencivenga was the eyes and ears of the city’s social scene for over six years. But life isn t always a party for Bencivenga. For one, she holds a master’s degree in social work. She also claims she quit
P-G in March 2020 because she was “verbally assaulted” by management. Even while writing her column, she says she recognized the inequities of the scene she had been assigned to cover, which is why she expanded the reach of the column under her tenure. In her goodbye letter, as printed online in NEXT Pittsburgh, she says she wished she had seen more communities integrated into event spaces. “There
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