Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Texas is dealing with a measles outbreak, and health officials and commentators in Pennsylvania are asking what lessons their state can draw from it. The discussion, highlighted by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, centers on vaccination rates, public health preparedness, and how quickly outbreaks can spread in communities with low immunization coverage. It reflects wider national concern about measles returning in places where it had been considered eliminated.

Pittsburgh's arts organizations are jointly seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette analysis. The coordinated campaign represents an unusual collective effort by cultural institutions across the city to secure major financial support rather than pursuing individual fundraising drives.