Chris Potter
Government & Accountability EditorNearly three decades after leaving home for college, Chris Potter now lives four miles from the house he grew up in -- a testament either to the charm of the South Hills or to a simple lack of ambition. In the intervening years, Potter held a variety of jobs, including asbestos abatement engineer and ice-cream truck driver. He has also worked for a number of local media outlets, only some of which then went out of business. After serving as the editor of Pittsburgh City Paper for a decade, he covered politics and government at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He has won some awards during the course of his quarter-century journalistic career, but then even a blind squirrel sometimes digs up an acorn.
And yes, that is his real hair.
He can be reached at 412-930-8006 or at cpotter@wesa.fm.
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Plus: Chris Potter breaks down the primary races to watch next Tuesday.
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Campaign finance reports filed within the past week suggest state Rep. Abigail Salisbury is in a tough fight to hold it for a full term this spring, as she faces a challenger, Ashley Commans, who has the backing of the progressive political movement.
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The speech drew upon Biden's longtime support of unions and underscored battle lines on an issue that his presumptive Republican challenger, Donald Trump, has long made a defining issue of his previous runs for the White House.
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The civil rights group contends that Washington County election officials are silencing voters based on a flawed understanding of a recent decision by the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. It's the latest development in a long-running fight about Pennsylvania's mail-in ballot provisions.
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Bhavini Patel's effort to topple first-term Rep. Summer Lee in this month’s Democratic primary has been bolstered by Jeffery Yass, one of the nation’s most prolific Republican donors.
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As part of a sign of mounting concerns about the fiscal health of the City of Pittsburgh, new legislation before city council would create additional oversight.
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After weeks of sounding the alarm, Pittsburgh Public Schools has filed a lawsuit with the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas in hopes of compelling a court-ordered countywide property reassessment.
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Pennsylvania doesn’t offer an “uncommitted” option for selecting delegates. Organizers instead hope to get 40,000 Democratic voters to use the write-in option.
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The debate lasted just 30 minutes but included rapid-fire attacks concerning the war in Gaza, the candidates' loyalty to President Joe Biden, and dueling accusations about each other’s supporters.
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Democrats are hoping that voters will find things to admire in President Joe Biden despite frustrations, and that investments in Western Pennsylvania will pay off this November.