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It's June already? Here's what you may have missed in Pittsburgh this past week: Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert will retire, effective July 1. The nearly 30-year police bureau veteran became chief in 2017. Charlie Wolfson reports
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The results are (mostly) in: In Pennsylvania's Senate race, former Braddock mayor and Pennsylvania Lt. Governor, John Fetterman, cruised to victory in last week's primary election, racking up the Democratic nomination with victories in all
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Dan Muessig keeps it real. Like, really fucking real. Dan ran “the Store,” Pittsburgh’s destination, invite-only underground cannabis dispensary, 7-days-a-week, 12-hours-a-day in the middle of an East End neighborhood for six straight years
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Dani Jenae reports on a new report from Black Women’s Policy Agenda, a nonprofit formed in the aftermath of the Peduto administration’s Gender Equity Commission, whose 2019 report determined Pittsburgh was, by most measures, the worst city
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Local billionaire Thomas Tull is throwing himself a festival to celebrate his new record label and inspire a community around local music in Pittsburgh. It’s too bad he didn't know 300 local bands already had plans that night. Tull, who
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A massive, $6 billion plastics plant is “approximately 95% complete,” said Bill Watson, Shell Polymers Monaca general manager, during a “virtual community meeting” hosted by the company Thursday evening. “We've got about 4,000 construction
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Faith leaders, poets, and musicians marched alongside labor and immigrant rights groups Sunday as hundreds of people took to the streets for a May Day march and rally organized by Casa San José , LCLAA Pittsburgh, APALA Pittsburgh, and the
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The Associated Press reported Thursday on a biased algorithm used by child welfare officials in Allegheny County. According to an AP review of Carnegie Mellon University data, the algorithm had a “pattern of flagging a disproportionate
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