Damon “Hop” Hopkins only needs three words to tell you about the grossest thing that’s ever happened to him working in Pittsburgh’s sewers. “Chest high. Feces.”
Police diver Greg Tersine has a unique view on Pittsburgh's Three Rivers. He has to navigate the maze of shopping carts, cars and stolen ATM machines that line the bottom of the rivers.
When the peak sales months for personal space heaters are July and August, you know something's pretty wrong with our approach to office air conditioning.
Twenty years ago, Gettysburg was so overgrown, visitors literally had to trudge through forests to experience legendary spots on the battlefield. So the National Park Service decided to do something (epic) about it.
Internet-of-things engineer Robert Blackwell says his idea to rig your toilet up to the internet could keep raw sewage out of Pittsburgh's Three Rivers.
Okay. So, yeah—goats are hot right now. But there's a better reason to hire them for your next landscaping gig than being the envy of the neighborhood.
Lou has worked as a writer, reporter and radio producer for the past 10 years. He was The Allegheny Front's enterprise reporter in 2015 and is now its digital editor. His work has appeared on Here and Now, NPR's The Salt and Marketplace, and he is a semi-regular contributor to WHYY's health and science program, The Pulse. He now lives in Detroit.
