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Turnout is often lower during elections for local councils and school boards, but these offices may shape your daily life more than Congress.

With Allegheny County’s property tax appeal system now recalculated in favor of owners, schools and municipalities large and small are preparing to take hits.

We look back at WESA's coverage on everything from COVID-19 to struggling schools, the return of arts to the election of city's first Black mayor, Ed Gainey, and more.

This week on Inside Appalachia, we’re talking with the creators of the “Black in Appalachia” podcast about their recent mountain road trip through the coalfields. Also in this episode, we learn about how debates over LGBTQ issues are playing out on the Qualla Boundary, in Western North Carolina. The Eastern Band of Cherokee doesn’t recognize same-sex marriage. But some LGBTQ members have spent the last several months trying to change that.

Jay Manning / PublicSource A pandemic that impacted income for many families also prompted federal, state and local actions to reduce evictions. But a far-reaching full moratorium gave way to much more limited restrictions, even as many renters continued to struggle. The results included more than 3,200 eviction cases filed by landlords in Allegheny County in the past year, sending some tenants scrambling amid COVID-19 and a longstanding affordable housing crisis. Since January, PublicSource and WESA have been spending time with households facing eviction, as part of the Tenant Cities s...