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north sider, feminist, atheist, pescatarian. blm. lover of arts, theater, media, and ramen. she/her/meow. forever an awkward teenager. leesuh @gmail .com

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lisa cunningham
2 years
Conor Lamb sends out statement on his loss to Fetterman: "John’s vote in the Senate is essential to protect this democracy, and he will have my vote in November. I will do everything I can to help Democrats win."
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@adrierising Start a 401K as soon as it's offered to you. Splurge on things that truly make you happy, like those expensive concert tickets for an artist you may never get the chance to see again. Forgive yourself more easily for the mistakes you're going to make.
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lisa cunningham
2 years
"Pittsburgh is a place for abortion. If you want to get an abortion, come to the city of Pittsburgh" - Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey
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lisa cunningham
5 years
@waldojaquith We saw this effect years ago at @PGHCityPaper when Jason Snyder photographed then mayoral candidate AJ Richardson. His facial tattoos show up on Heather Mull's photo on the right, but not Snyder's.
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lisa cunningham
2 years
Fetterman sends out a press release about his victory in tonight's Pennsylvania U.S. Senate primary: "We’re going to win in November the same way we won tonight – by fighting for every county, and every vote. Because every place matters, and no place deserves to be written off."
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Update from Allegheny County director of communications: "Please note that we are aware that a number of national outlets are reporting incorrect vote totals & over reporting the # of votes for Donald Trump, apparently bc of a typo. This is not an error on the county’s side"
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lisa cunningham
4 years
After multiple times of calling her "sir" on a media call, Dr. Levine asks Marty Griffin to "please stop misgendering me." He apologizes.
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lisa cunningham
2 years
President Biden already campaigning for Fetterman
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Joe Biden
2 years
Electing @JohnFetterman to the United States Senate would be a big step forward for Pennsylvania’s working people.
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lisa cunningham
5 years
Everyone talks about the Pittsburgh Left, but how about the even more ridiculous Pittsburgh Come To A Complete Stop Before Making A Turn?
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lisa cunningham
4 years
With 691,850 votes cast overall, Allegheny County has the presidential race with Biden at 408,117 and Trump at 271,402
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Pittsburgh BreadWorks announces it has pulled ads from Wendy Bell's KDKA Radio show
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lisa cunningham
5 years
I've been playing around with idea for awhile and think I'm gonna pursue it. 40 Over 40: profiles of worthy Pittsburghers over 40 years old. Maybe they found their calling later in life; maybe they've been killing it all these years unappreciated. Who should I interview?
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lisa cunningham
2 years
"This isn't about babies. ... If this was about babies, we'd have formula in Giant Eagle" - @bethanyhallam
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lisa cunningham
4 years
The wonderful reporters of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette deserve better. It is has been so incredibly hard to take care of one's mental health while working in journalism this year, and I am so sorry for all of them having to carry this extra weight. I still support their work.
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Everyone at @PGHCityPaper is taking a few days off and will get back to you as soon as we're able. Thanks for your patience and support. ♥️
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lisa cunningham
2 years
"I don't have anything new. We're going to do the same old shit." - Billy Joel in Pittsburgh
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lisa cunningham
5 years
I saw water in the bathtub for the first time last night when driving home from work and I was so excited, it was like spotting a celebrity. This tweet will make zero sense to people outside of Pittsburgh.
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lisa cunningham
2 years
Get yourself a partner who stands by your decisions, even when financially scary, and heads out to get you mashed potatoes to cheer you up. Grateful for him, and for the public support. I am lucky to be surrounded by so many people I love and admire.
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Can I just share something nice? Yesterday, I told our building security guard how I was sad there was nowhere Downtown to get haluski, and she brought this in for me today! Her husband went to the store and made this for me last night! There is still kindness in the world! ❤️
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Please join me in congratulating @RyanDeto who I'm happy to announce as @PGHCityPaper 's News Editor. Ryan's hard work, incredible reporting, and dedication to the paper has been a huge part of our company's success, and he couldn't be more worthy of this promotion.
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Who's biased? Keith's biased. Yep, I said it.
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lisa cunningham
4 years
OK, I'm on the fence.
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lisa cunningham
2 years
Pro-marijuana nonprofit @NORML PAC, sends out press release about Fetterman's victory in tonight's primary: "It is time for politicians to wake up to the reality that this is a winning ballot box issue."
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lisa cunningham
2 years
Gonna miss this guy. Thanks to @RyanDeto for helping make @PGHCityPaper a better place to work. Please join me in wishing him good luck at @TribLIVE
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lisa cunningham
2 years
Summer Lee stresses this is not an issue that just affects white women. It affects Black and Brown people, trans people, and nonbinary people.
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lisa cunningham
2 years
How can you support me? Continue to support the hard working journalists at @PGHCityPaper and help make sure they are treated better. Pick up next week's Election Guide and compliment the art direction and content. Read their stories.
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lisa cunningham
2 years
A memento I found when cleaning out my office
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lisa cunningham
3 years
Mayor Peduto, please stop equating Pittsburgh protesters with the "Radical Right"
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lisa cunningham
3 years
It's my great honor to announce two promotions at @pghcitypaper : Please join me in congratulating CP's new Managing Editor @RyanDeto and A&E Editor @AWaltzCP Both Ryan and Amanda have been an integral part of our growth, and I'm so happy to have them and a great team by my side
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lisa cunningham
4 years
UPDATE: Bill Peduto has canceled an interview on KDKA Radio because of Marty Griffin's remarks. (I want to add a personal note that I too very highly respect @Lhayesfreeland .)
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lisa cunningham
2 years
Never forget
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Alexis Johnson
4 years
Horrifying scenes and aftermath from selfish LOOTERS who don’t care about this city!!!!! .... oh wait sorry. No, these are pictures from a Kenny Chesney concert tailgate. Whoops.
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lisa cunningham
2 years
Continuing to see posts saying I resigned bc of the Post-Gazette strike. While I condemned Butler Eagle for scab printing in my exit post, I quit bc the Eagle president ordered me not to publish this info, which went against my hiring terms & would have destroyed CP's credibility
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lisa cunningham
5 years
Attention @anthrocon and Pittsburgh Furry Paper fans: The Liberty Avenue @Starbucks beside Bill's Burgers is launching a Furryccino tomorrow and I just grabbed a sample! (Spoiler alert: It's delicious) #notanad
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lisa cunningham
5 years
IT'S OUT!!!
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lisa cunningham
4 years
I am probably going to wear a mask every time I'm sick for the rest of my life.
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lisa cunningham
2 years
FYI, made an edit to that file to add that Ron Vodenichar also yelled out to me that "No one cares about the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike!"
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lisa cunningham
1 year
Counting down the minutes until @JohnFetterman uses this for a Sheetz/Wawa debate
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸
1 year
Totally normal.
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lisa cunningham
1 year
🥳 New job, who dis? Excited to bring my love of arts, media, community, and design to the @PGHArtsCouncil
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Not gonna lie. Been fantasizing about finding ways I could someday get @alexisjreports to join our staff, but can't hate on this star move! Congrats to Alexis on rising up from being treated poorly to being recognized nationally. 🎉👐
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lisa cunningham
4 years
My heart is so heavy. @shmalexgordon , you are already so very missed.
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lisa cunningham
3 years
I know pageviews don't mean everything, & I'm very grateful for our @PGHCityPaper print readership which is still strong! But looking at our numbers & our online views are up 38.4% so far from 2019, and damn, that sincerely means so much after everything we've been through. 😢🙏
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Anything, ANYTHING, that a white nationalist group puts its name on is not in any way peaceful, @PennLive .
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lisa cunningham
4 years
The P-G story has now been picked up by the Washington Post
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lisa cunningham
1 year
What's your favorite (cheap) spot to work remotely in Pittsburgh? Name-drop those great coffee shops with wifi and ample room. Gotta get out of this house more often!
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lisa cunningham
4 years
I am so glad that I'm at the editor of an altweekly, and not employed at another media outlet that would restrict me from saying this with every ounce of my being: fuck racists and fuck mitch mcconnell and FUCK TRUMP.
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lisa cunningham
2 years
I just applied to be a poll worker! Psyched about finding a way I can continue to help out with this important election
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Charlie Wolfson
2 years
Allegheny County says it has about 5,500 poll workers for 11/8 which is about 80% of a full crew. Here’s where they say they need more:
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lisa cunningham
2 years
Pro tip: If you ever unexpectedly lose your health insurance, ask all of your doctors if they can move appointments and get yr medicine refilled quickly. Grateful to doctors for quickly accommodating my requests before mine disappears on Tuesday 🙏
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Every day, Black Pittsburghers and people of color are harmed by racists in Pennsylvania. Thank you to Pa.'s second lady for sharing her awful personal experience to draw attention to this problem. TW: Hate speech
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Gisele Barreto Fetterman
4 years
*TRIGGER WARNING* I love love love this country but we are so deeply divided. I ran to the local grocery store and was met by and verbally assaulted by this woman who repeatedly told me I do not belong here. The confrontation continued into the parking lot where I was able to
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lisa cunningham
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Pittsburgh Police during today's press conference on protest marshals wearing all black & helmets: "Sooner or later, somebody's gonna overreact," saying public is going to get scared seeing them, potentially leading to harm Also, Pittsburgh Police at protests (📷: @wickphoto )
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lisa cunningham
3 years
One thing I think the public forgets — or maybe, stops caring about? — during election season is that politicians are people with feelings who, while a personal choice, make a lot of sacrifices to run. Wishing everyone good mental health after tonight's results, win or lose.
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lisa cunningham
1 year
This is a good day to remind you of the good work @PublicSourcePA and @905wesa are doing in the region.
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lisa cunningham
2 years
More info on John Fetterman's win here
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lisa cunningham
2 years
The Associated Press has just declared John Fetterman the winner of the U.S. Senate race
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lisa cunningham
4 years
After so many things going wrong, ending the year with some positivity. Applied for a small grant for some post-election coverage from Election SOS Rapid Response Fund, and got it. So a few freelance articles are popping up on @PGHCityPaper , which I'm very grateful for 🙏
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lisa cunningham
4 years
"I think Pittsburgh does have the ability to change once everyone admits there is a problem." — Nicholas Anglin, founder of Black, Young, and Educated
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Holy crap, it's my two year anniversary of being named editor in chief of @PGHCityPaper
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lisa cunningham
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A year ago today, I quit a job I loved. Grateful to the friends I met along the way. Grateful to the community I served. And grateful I had the strength to leave. Let me serve as a reminder that no job is worth compromising your ethics or sacrificing your mental health. ♥️
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lisa cunningham
9 years
@genesimmons your mini-me: "let's go to the playground & scare people!" (one of 4 @pghcitypaper covers this week) http://t.co/GBqWRV1JF7
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lisa cunningham
2 years
My thoughts are with those in Pittsburgh having to relive their own trauma when these antisemitic events continue to occur elsewhere
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People genuinely don't seem to understand that this could happen at any synagogue in America.
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Deleted my previous tweet bc Deluca's posted a correction and I want to support local restaurants taking safety seriously. I've always loved Deluca's and am relieved to see this update
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lisa cunningham
3 years
Why IDGAF when folks say I'm an oversharer: by posting freely and being myself online, I hope I'm showing others that it's OK to be human. I struggle daily with depression & anxiety, but also love life and being a goof. #WorldMentalHealthDay
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lisa cunningham
2 years
Is John Fetterman the new Pa Treasury?
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lisa cunningham
3 years
ICYMI: Today on @PGHCityPaper , we featured a bunch of tiny dicks, and one giant one
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Dear @CocaCola , you're the reason I'm able to stay up all hours of the night putting out @PGHCityPaper . How about putting some of yr #StopHateForProfit money into media outlets like ours doing legit work. We could really use ad dollars right now.
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Gonna be upfront here. We are going to be taking a hard look at what deserves our coverage in the future. Not everyone who begs for media attention deserves it.
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lisa cunningham
2 years
The cover that never was. (This was the rejected cover that photographer Heather Mull and I created for CP in 2012, inspired by Michael Gross' National Lampoon cover)
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Asked a cashier if they could please do me a favor and pull their mask over their nose and they did and I didn't have a heart attack from anxiety from asking them to do it like I thought I might so maybe all of us just needs to keep doing this until everyone does? I dunno.
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Congrats to @RyanDeto on his ☑️
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lisa cunningham
2 years
Support the employees at Pittsburgh City Paper. So much good stuff from them on the horizon.
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Hoping for a time when I don't have to stay awake worried sick about my staff, friends, city, community being safe.
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lisa cunningham
4 years
FROM THE INBOX: "May you and your fascist propaganda quickly come to a devastating end. You disgust me. Leave this great country and go to China, Russia, Venezuela, or Cuba where your kind raise. Patriots don't want you here." He must know it's @PGHCityPaper 's bday! 🥳🎁🎈
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Donald Trump is putting the lives of people I love in danger. Any endorsement of him is an embarrassment. I fear for our country.
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Finished a tough issue today. My office is always cold, so I took a few moments this afternoon to sit at Alex's old desk by this window to soak in the sunlight while I edited pages in this week's coming issue, dedicated to his name.
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lisa cunningham
5 years
One year ago today, I accepted the position as editor-in-chief at @PGHCityPaper .
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Only got one email today complaining about this week's cover. Surprised! Changed concept at last minute & worked on this 'til midnight before print day
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lisa cunningham
4 years
“It's confusing that in a city that touts graffiti-busting ... how white dudes making art alongside a highway underpass dressed in 'construction uniforms' weren't harassed or stopped by the cops” — @DSKinsel
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lisa cunningham
3 years
Congrats to Dr. Rachel Levine! Biden chose well. Now the country can see what Pennsylvania has seen of her leadership
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lisa cunningham
1 year
Normalize the importance of acknowledging and treating mental health issues! My thoughts are with @JohnFetterman
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Does "upholding professional standards in journalism" include removing two stories from the website and replacing them with rewritten byline-free stories with new images?
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lisa cunningham
4 years
This week's @PGHCityPaper Health Issue is focused on mental health & suicide awareness, dedicated to our colleague Alex Gordon, who recently died of suicide.
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lisa cunningham
3 years
Today, most of the @pghcitypaper editorial staff gathered in person together for the first time in over a year, and some of them met in person for the very first time. The most frequent talking point? Whether or not everyone was taller or shorter than they appeared on Zoom.
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lisa cunningham
3 years
My paranoid, scared-of-vaccines sister who is in the 1A group and was resistant to getting the vaccine and had to be talked into it just got vaccinated and I'm so happy
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lisa cunningham
4 years
It has now been two weeks since Alex died by suicide, and one week since @PGHCityPaper went public with the news and our small staff of less than 15 began to openly grieve. I don't reshare this just bc we can't forget, but to help the city remember.
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lisa cunningham
3 years
One year.
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lisa cunningham
2 years
Student journalists of @ThePittNews post support of striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers, will no longer print their publication at the Butler Eagle
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Hi friends, @PGHCityPaper really needs your help.
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lisa cunningham
4 years
I know you're not supposed to take pics when you drive but I just couldn't resist
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Pro tip: This is not the way to react to accusations of sexual harassment.
@RyanDeto
Ryan Deto
4 years
The P-G union is in process of re-running an election for Fuoco's permanent replacement, thanks to a snafu with the union's first mail-in election. But this is how temporary union president Ed Blazina addressed the Fuoco scandal: “I can tell you — he wasn’t handsy with me.”
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lisa cunningham
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One true heroine has emerged from this pandemic: @SecretaryLevine . Our @pghcitypaper intern @OGratzinger has penned a great love letter to @PaHealthDept 's Secretary of Health on this #TransDayOfVisibility
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lisa cunningham
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Really, really bummed to just receive the member email alerting us that @WESAconfluence is ending. This show introduced me to so many local folks, and I greatly appreciate the time @KevinOGavinPgh and his team put into this fantastic program
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lisa cunningham
3 years
Best idea in today's @PGHCityPaper editorial meeting: Pittsburgh media dodge ball league to work out all of our collective stress. Who's gonna compete against us?
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lisa cunningham
2 years
Losing @RyanDeto is a huge loss, but I'm also really excited for some changes we have planned for @PGHCityPaper in 2022 & can't wait to see what ideas our next News Editor will bring. Love local politics? Fighting big biz? Having a good laugh? Join us!
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lisa cunningham
2 years
The Pittsburgh Bridge merch has arrived
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Bye trolls 👋 We have removed the ability to comment from @PGHCityPaper 's website. (Thanks to @metrotimes for the inspiration.) Just wishing I could at least temporarily do the same thing for Facebook until we have a full staff again.
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lisa cunningham
4 years
Since this has come up a few times recently, including today when a @PGHtransit driver slammed on his horn and yelled at me for taking a photo of his bus on a crowded street, I thought it'd be good to remind folks that everyone has the right to take photographs in public spaces.
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lisa cunningham
3 years
My parents are vaccinated!
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lisa cunningham
3 years
I'm coming out of vacation to say I take offense that Wendy Bell thinks that CP's coverage of her is all due to one hack guy. Let the record show that all of that one hack guy's coverage has to be approved by, ahem, one hack lady.
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Ryan Deto
3 years
Wendy: “There’s one hack guy responsible for all the toxic, left-wing, marxist, progressive garbage, and he is so terrible it’s delicious” Me: “That’s right”
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lisa cunningham
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This is just, um, quite the remarkable tweet if you're at all familiar with Pittsburgh's LGBTQ history.
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