Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to visit Pittsburgh on Tuesday. She is expected to talk about the Biden administration’s work on clean water issues. Harris will be joined by Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan. Harris visited Pittsburgh in June 2022 to discuss the administration’s efforts to replace lead
Vice President Kamala Harris, in a visit to Pittsburgh on Friday, will discuss the administration’s efforts at the federal level to replace lead pipes – a issue with which Pittsburgh familiar. Harris, alongside EPA administrator Michael Regan and Marcia Fudge, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, will speak at the
When Alyson Holt pursued a degree in electrical engineering, she was keenly aware of how few fellow students looked like her. “Women were 6% of the students,” said Holt, 48, of Murrysville. Holt came from a family full of technology careers — both grandfathers were engineers, and her grandmother and
One man was Black, the other was white.
One gasped for air as the other man, a uniformed police officer, kneeled down on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
The deadly Memorial Day weekend encounter between George Floyd, a Black man, and white Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin became the year’s second viral event behind the coronavirus pandemic. Footage captured on cellphone and surveillance cameras quickly spread on social media and set the stage or ignited a match for a summer of unrest across the country as Americans of all races, ages and creeds took to the streets to rail against racial injustice and police violence.