Kate Giammarise
ReporterKate Giammarise focuses her reporting on poverty, social services and affordable housing. Before joining WESA, she covered those topics for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for nearly five years; prior to that, she spent several years in the paper’s Harrisburg bureau covering the legislature, governor and state government. She was part of the P-G staff that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting on the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. She has won numerous state and local awards for her reporting and was honored with a 2020 Keystone Media Award for her beat reporting on poverty. She can be reached at kgiammarise@wesa.fm or 412-697-2953.
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A group of local federal workers rallied in Downtown Pittsburgh Wednesday, decrying job cuts and a recent federal executive order by President Donald Trump that would take away union rights for many federal employees. -
A judge will decide if a group of low-income tenants and Allegheny County officials can be part of an ongoing foreclosure of several troubled properties. -
A multi-year, $21 million major renovation and modernization of the Braddock Carnegie Library is nearing completion. -
Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey and Wilkinsburg Mayor Dontae Comans joined other local officials and advocates to rally outside the Social Security office in East Liberty on Tuesday, arguing that the services it offers should be spared from sweeping cuts being made by Donald Trump’s administration. -
The case against one owner of a troubled West Mifflin apartment complex will move forward, a magistrate ruled Friday. -
Local elected officials and housing advocates on Thursday called on the administration of President Donald Trump to not move forward with potential cuts to federal housing programs. -
The Fair Housing Law Center covers more than 30 counties in Western Pennsylvania and four in West Virginia. -
More than three years into his term as Pittsburgh Mayor, Ed Gainey is finally getting to put his stamp on the city's Housing Authority — and that could mean changes to its professional leadership as well. -
The preliminary hearing for one of the owners of the complex, Moshe Silber, of New York, will continue on March 28 before Magisterial District Judge Richard Olasz Jr. Silber faces charges related to the conditions and finances of the apartment complex in West Mifflin.
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State DHS officials say new weight-loss drugs are driving up costs for Pennsylvania’s Medicaid program, likely leading to more than $1 billion in new costs this year.
