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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Survey Designed to Assess Needs of Southwestern PA Veterans

Veterans of all generations are asked to take this survey, but especially post-9/11 veterans.

The needs of the 200,000 veterans living in southwestern Pennsylvania could be better met by simply taking a 10-15 minute survey online. The survey was recently developed by Megan Andros—an Iraq war veteran and Coro Fellow who is currently working at The Heinz Endowments on veterans initiatives. "I have found that there is a lack of detailed information about veterans in southwestern Pennsylvania," said Andros. "Multiple government agencies and research institutions are unable to go into depth about what services veterans from different generations need or care about." Andros said she hopes all area veterans will take the survey, but she is especially pushing for post-9/11 veterans to answer the 39 questions. "We want to make sure that …

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Update: Election 2012 Turnout Brisk in Allegheny County, Western PA

Allegheny County Common Pleas Court extends deadline for absentee ballots to be submitted from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. after elections officials receive more requests than expected.

Over and over, visitors to the Allegheny County Election Division heard the same refrain Tuesday morning: “Elections division, how may I help you?” "Elections division, please hold." From their headquarters Downtown, that constant jangle was the only way elections division workers could gauge that Tuesday was shaping up to be a busy Election Day around Allegheny County, Division Manager Mark Wolosik said. “You hear the phones ringing off the hook,” he said. The most-frequent questions? Most callers asked to confirm if they were registered to vote or where their polling places were located, he said. By mid-morning, division workers had fielded enough questions to prompt Wolosik to issue the office’s prediction: It would be a brisk voting …

Oren Spiegler

7:51 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012

My wife and I had to wait in line (which we were happy to do), and were numbers 537 and 538 in Upper Saint Clair District 5, Ward 2, just before 6:00 p. m.: extraordinary! In our more than ten years residing in this district, we have never seen such a large turnout!   more ›

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