Pittsburgh Movies, Monkeypox & A Fight Over School Funding
August 5, 202222m 10s
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Show Notes
It’s the Friday news roundup! The show team talks about a lawsuit that could dramatically change how Pennsylvania funds its public schools; the latest on monkeypox in Allegheny County; and some new locally-filmed movies and shows worth checking out, including a reboot of the beloved baseball classic “A League of Their Own.”
As always, our Friday shows our powered by great local journalism:
- City Cast’s own Mallory Falk covered the school funding trial as a reporter for WHYY, and has a summary here: https://whyy.org/articles/a-catastrophic-failure-or-above-the-constitutional-threshold-pas-school-funding-trial-comes-to-a-close/
- WHYY’s Katie Meyer reports on the final arguments in the school funding case and what’s happening next: https://whyy.org/articles/pa-public-school-funding-lawsuit-post-trial-arguments/
- TyLisa C. Johnson with PublicSource breaks down what you need to know about monkeypox: https://www.publicsource.org/monkeypox-virus-vaccine-pittsburgh-allegheny-county-need-to-know-2022/
- Jessie Sage shares her struggle trying to get a monkeypox vaccine in Pittsburgh City Paper: https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/pittsburgh-sex-worker-on-why-monkeypox-vaccine-access-needs-expanded/Content?oid=22152528
- And check out a lil preview of our upcoming Pgh-filmed movies and show via the Post-Gazette’s Joshua Axelrod: https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/tv-radio/2022/06/07/a-league-of-their-own-series-release-date/stories/202206070083
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