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** How to keep your SNAP benefits under new federal rules ([link removed])
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** Pharmacies in Pa. can now give COVID shots. That doesn’t mean widespread access will follow. ([link removed])
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** Pennsylvania plastics pollution settlement could set a national precedent for control of pellets ([link removed])
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* With the Trump administration applying pressure to higher education, we looked back at six times Pittsburgh scholars faced threats to academic freedom ([link removed]) .
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📚 Pittsburgh Art Book Fair ([link removed]) Sept. 20-21 | Carnegie Museum of Art, Oakland
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** Southwestern Pa.'s top union leader to step down from Allegheny/Fayette labor council ([link removed])
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