
Abigail Hakas
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Your friendly neighborhood journalist. Staff reporter at Next Generation Newsroom. Union solidarity. She/her. DMs open for story tips. Signal: abigailhakas.67
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18-02-2023 18:12:16
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The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh π strike paper starts another week with @EdBlazina's report on roadwork, including Parkway East outbound restrictions for the Commercial Street Bridge, and a Abigail Hakas story on rural towns in W. PA recruiting residents with MakeMyMove: unionprogress.com


Alcoa came to Western Australia in the 60s under a pretty sweet deal: rights to scarce water, low taxes and royalties. Now grassroots groups and govβt are scrutinizing the Pittsburgh-based company and asking: Does its mining put drinking water at risk? publicsource.org/alcoa-mines-thβ¦

The next QBurgh / NEXTpittsburgh "Portrait of Pride" is by Abigail Hakas on Harold's Haunt's "burst of life," Athena Flint: qburgh.com/athena-flint-jβ¦

They're withholding labor from the PG until it follows the law/a court order and negotiates a contract. But meanwhile these Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh π members have made a fine Sunday strike paper, covering labor, air pollution, transit, college baseball and track & field: unionprogress.com


Randy Stoernell bags a lovely sunset. It's in today's PUP, along with Steve Rotstein's softball & baseball championship previews, Ed Blazina on a controversial Downtown bus stop and roadwork, and Abigail Hakas on a city effort to help residents fix sidewalks: unionprogress.com


We have to brag about our wins at last night's Golden Quills Awards -- 3 plus a best-of-show for Steve Mellon and 1 for @EdBlazina, plus finalists Ed, Helen Fallon (2), @johnnysantapup, Brad Everett & Abigail Hakas. Way to go, team! (Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh π, The NewsGuild-CWA) unionprogress.com/2025/05/28/pitβ¦

.City of Pittsburgh is putting in better LED streetlights, Pittsburgh EMS grows into the future while honoring its Freedom House history, and the Point Park Center for Media Innovation Next Generation Newsroom's Abigail Hakas details a bump in logging in the Allegheny National Forest: unionprogress.com




Loving this Stephen Caruso explainer on PA's π₯ public transit debate at the center of state budget talks youtube.com/shorts/_k7nGD_β¦




New from Point Park Center for Media Innovationβs Next Generation Newsroom and Abigail Hakas and Feixu Chen: unionprogress.com/2025/07/15/froβ¦

A flurry of legislation has been filed in Pennsylvania to address a boom in data center development driven by the the rush of AI speculation. Via Abigail Hakas spotlightpa.org/news/2025/07/dβ¦


This week marks 1,000(!) days on strike. It shouldn't take this long to stop the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette mocking labor law and the courts. But as Ed Blazina puts it: "We get through with the kindness of strangers." Can that include you today? UnionProgress.com/donate


Shout out to Liz Shuler, AFL-CIO β, and everyone who stood with us and each other at today's It's Better In a Union bus tour stop outside United Steelworkers Union HQ. To join them in supporting strikers in the longest-running strike in the country, visit UnionProgress.com/donate today!


Update from Point Park Center for Media Innovation Abigail Hakas: "Governor Josh Shapiro signed a bill this week touted by Pennsylvania Lottery officials as a way to bring in millions of additional dollars for programs benefiting senior citizens, such as low-cost prescriptions and rent rebates." unionprogress.com/2025/07/23/penβ¦