Margaret J. Krauss
Keystone Crossroads ReporterMargaret J. Krauss was a freelance reporter who is also the staff reporter for Pittsburgh Quarterly magazine. She spent 2015 producing a 48-part Pittsburgh history series for WESA, biking some 2,000 miles to do so. She previously worked for National Geographic Kids magazine producing multimedia content and researching.
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With Fern Hollow back in action, PennDOT can turn to the Commercial Street Bridge. -
Urban planners say cities must make it possible to return to the streets and shop without losing the safety of physical distancing. -
Since March 15, nearly 1.6 million Pennsylvanians have filed for traditional unemployment compensation. Thousands more have applied for help under a new... -
On a Monday morning in February, people packed the Pittsburgh mayor’s conference room to witness the city’s successful transition to financial… -
On Monday the city of Pittsburgh became the second city to exit Act 47 , the state’s oversight program for financially distressed cities. For a city... -
Autonomous vehicles have gotten pretty good at detecting other cars and pedestrians. But "seeing" bikes and predicting what they'll do is still a challenge. The answer may lie in bikes themselves.
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Pennsylvania is the nation’s fifth largest coal producer. Counties in the western, central, and even eastern parts of the state are home to coal mines.… -
A giant billboard went up at the intersection of Centre Avenue and Crawford Street in Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood in 1960. It read, “No… -
More than 100 people gathered at the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg on Wednesday for Keystone Crossroads’ second annual Urban Ideas Worth… -
Below a tangle of highways along the southern edge of Pittsburgh’s downtown is a truncated section of concrete. The Mon Wharf Landing may look as if it…
