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It’s the Friday news roundup! Today the team’s discussing the controversy around funds for Pittsburgh parks, why Republicans will have a (temporary) majority in the state House even though Democrats won control, and where to get local holiday gifts.

As always, our Friday shows are powered by great local journalism.

• Ladimir Garcia, Terryaun Bell, and Jack Troy with PublicSource on the city’s park tax: 
• https://www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-budget-city-parks-tax-conservancy-mayor-ed-gainey-equity/
• Kiley Koscinski with WESA discussing park funding on The Confluence: https://www.wesa.fm/show/the-confluence/2022-11-30/pittsburgh-parks-conservancy-questions-citys-spending-of-parks-tax-funding-on-equipment
• Stephen Caruso with Spotlight PA on why PA Dems will lose their majority in the state house, at least temporarily: https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2022/11/pa-election-2022-results-democrat-house-control-speaker-election/ and https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2022/11/pa-election-2022-democrats-majority-summer-lee-austin-davis/
• Stephen Caruso’s interview on The Confluence: https://www.wesa.fm/show/the-confluence/2022-11-23/airport-travel-is-up-but-not-yet-rivaling-pre-pandemic-passenger-volume
• Chris Potter with WESA on the debate over setting a special election date to replace late state rep. Tony DeLuca: https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2022-12-01/special-election-scheduled-for-late-pa-rep-tony-delucas-seat
•  Our own Francesca Dabecco’s list of local holiday markets: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=47857f2c492a1dda05a4762b9&id=1fd734c75a

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