Social Justice Warriors Driving Once-Great Pittsburgh Into the Ground

At the center of this collapse is Mayor Ed Gainey, who, after taking office in January of 2022, has done nothing to address the city’s collapse.

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Mayor Ed Gainey with a Democratic Congressional candidate, Summer Lee, on May 17, 2022 at Pittsburgh. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

PITTSBURGH — It’s 10:30 a.m. on a Thursday morning, and a homeless man is curled up against the decorative angled brick below the archways of the large pane windows that line the office building known as the Fort Pitt Commons.

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