LARRY DAVIS

As a result of sequestration cuts, the National Institutes of Health will see funding for medical research reduced from $5.6 billion to $4.77 billion. Similarly, federal funding for the National Science Foundation is being reduced by $586 million.

Starting Sunday, nearly 430 stops will be eliminated from 36 Port Authority of Allegheny County bus routes in the first phase of a consolidation process approved four years ago. The stops being cut are those used the least.

May 14, 2013 - Senator McIlhinney and members of the Senate Law and Justice Committee held a second hearing to examine the governor’s liquor privatization plan.

Less than a week after the PA Senate concluded committee hearings on liquor privatization, advertisements opposing such a change have already appeared on local television. Doubtless, they are on the air in Harrisburg also when one man, state Sen. Charles McIllhinney, R-Bucks, is trying to write a more palatable bill than the one passed by the state house in March.

Almost a month after the senseless shooting deaths of 1-year-old Marcus White Jr., who was killed at an East Hills community picnic with his aunts; 16-year-old Delasia Detrieuille, who was killed in a housing complex when confronting two boys who allegedly had robbed her of a gun she was trying to sell earlier in the day; and John Haas, a jitney driver who was killed while picking up a charge in a McKeesport housing complex because his vehicle was mistaken for a rival gang member’s, the community will come together to take a stand against the acceptance of senseless violence in their neighborhoods at Pittsburgh’s Juneteenth Stop the Violence & Community Awareness Event on June 29 at Stage AE from 1-4 p.m.