July 2014

Pittsburgh’s South Side has had largest number of violent crimes for four years running

I worked with our criminal justice reporter to analyze the most recent four years of Pittsburgh crime stats at the neighborhood level. I converted the data from PDFs to a spreadsheet and wrote roughly half of the story that showed South Side Flats had the most crime since 2010.

Corbett has spent $1.7 million on TV ads since the primary

As the first story in PublicSource’s coverage of money in the 2014 governor’s race, I show the early start that Tom Wolf got on the airwaves and the major sources of money for each candidate. Over the course of the election, I tracked ad spending on 24 TV stations in Pennsylvania’s six TV markets.