Kathy Knauer

Today we’re kicking off our biggest fundraiser of the year: NewsMatch, a nationwide campaign to support nonprofit newsrooms like ours. From now until December 31, we have an opportunity to boost the impact of donations to The Allegheny Front, which will help power our newsroom into 2026. Here’s how it works: NewsMatch will match your new monthly donation 12 times or double your one-time gift, all up to $1,000. That means that, with NewsMatch, we can earn up to $30,000.

The Allegheny Front has been recognized for excellence in journalism with several regional awards this week. Our series from January 2024, commemorating the one-year anniversary of the East Palestine train derailment, was recognized with a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Series.

By Kathy Knauer, Julie Grant, Reid Frazier and Kara Holsopple of The Allegheny Front and Sydney Roach, Rivka Wolin and Erell Williams of WPSU On Election Day, we talked with voters in several Pennsylvania counties about the environment and climate change – what they think about them and how those issues might have affected their ballot choices.