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Hilltop Communities Unite to Improve Their Neighborshoods
Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
July 16, 2007
"...Pittsburgh's southern "Hilltop" neighborhoods
mimic conditions in many city neighborhoods, but a unique intervention
has begun."
"Poll Shows Opposition to Bill of Rights"
The TartanOnline
May 1, 2006
Shawn Wertz writes that "The focus of this poll was the proposed Student Bill of Rights, which would codify the prohibition of professors using their courses as a way of sharing personal political views with their students. The results of the poll suggested that the participants had changed their minds after learning about the issues through Campus Conversations."
OnQ Program on Healthcare Deliberative Poll
October 26, 2006
WQED Multimedia's OnQ Magazine aired a special show on healthcare. The program profiled two participants in the local deliberative poll and explored their concerns about healthcare issues, including Medicaid and the uninsured.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
October 29, 2005
An Op Ed piece by Robert Cavalier describing the ideas behind the newly formed Southwestern Pennsylvania Program for Deliberative Democracy.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
January 25, 2004
An article by Jack Kelly covering the first example of Deliberative Polling held in the Pittsburgh region.
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