Diverse group will bring celebration of workers day to Downtown streets
If you’re Downtown Wednesday in the early evening, you may notice a group of marchers singing and chanting as they parade through Pittsburgh’s Downtown streets. It’ll be a diverse group gathering celebrating International Workers Day, or May Day, which honors the labor movement and the working class. Wednesday’s event begins at 5:30 p.m. at the…
Anne Feeney’s legacy remembered, celebrated with duo of events
In 2021 COVID-19 robbed Anne Feeney of her life at age 69. Then the pandemic doubled down and denied her family, friends and fans the opportunity to join together and share their love and memories of the activist, folk singer, songwriter and musician in a big public way. That will be rectified on Wednesday, May…
House passes Summer Lee bill focused on the problem of abandoned wells
One week after winning a primary battle for a second term, U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Swissvale, saw the House pass a bill she’d sponsored and championed that takes steps toward dealing with the thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells scattered across the country. The Abandoned Wells, Remediation, Research, and Development Act attracted bipartisan support…
Speed controls coming to Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood
Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure is taking steps beginning Wednesday to reduce speeding in the Homewood area. Responding to concerns from residents, the city will install traffic calming measures on Hamilton Avenue between North Braddock Avenue and Oakwood Street and on Kelly Street between Brushton Avenue and Oakwood. The work will start on Wednesday,…
Troubled Monongahela Incline will have short-term closures for first-responder training
The Monongahela Incline has been closed plenty of times over the past year, but short closures over the next six weeks won’t be because of problems with the 154-year-old system. Instead, the funicular between Station Square and Grandview Avenue on Mount Washington will be shut down on purpose so that Pittsburgh’s first responders can conduct…
Catholic Charities readies to open doors to Compassion Corner, its new Downtown campus and expanded services
Since 1910 Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pittsburgh has been helping its neighbors across the region by connecting them to resources, healing their bodies and minds, and empowering people toward self-sufficiency. On Aug. 23, it will grow that 114-year-old mission, stated prominently on its website, when Compassion Corner opens in the former Diocese of Pittsburgh…
Moon nonprofit ready to add veterans therapy program this summer to its humanitarian efforts in Ukraine
DTCare, a Moon-based nonprofit organization, has been delivering humanitarian aid and critical medical supplies to Ukraine and supporting art therapy programs among other endeavors there, all aimed at easing its citizens’ immense suffering as war drags on past two years. It will expand its efforts this summer with a Ukrainian holistic adventure therapy program for…
We’re a year and a half into this strike, and it’s taught us something about solidarity
Late one Saturday night in April last year about 20 of us — strikers and supporters — converged on a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette distribution site in Monroeville to set up a picket line. We arrived around midnight so we could meet the trucks delivering Sunday editions of the PG. It was dark and cold. We paced…
‘Huge news’: National Labor Relations Board is ‘seeking injunction’ that could end Pittsburgh news workers strike
Exactly 18 months and 1½ hours into their unfair labor practices strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a small and tired but still-hanging-in-there group of unionized newsroom workers gathered Thursday afternoon, in person and on Zoom, for a hastily called meeting to hear what had been described in urgent messages as a “strike announcement.” Zack Tanner,…
Without her biggest fan, heavy-hearted Hempfield ace Riley Miller overcoming grief while mowing down competition for defending WPIAL champs
To say Hempfield’s Riley Miller pitches with a poise beyond her years still wouldn’t quite do her enough justice. After bursting onto the scene as a freshman sensation in 2022, Miller’s breakout campaign came to an abrupt halt when she broke her foot while sliding into second base in a first-round playoff win against Norwin,…
Zane Griffaton putting up zany numbers as he tries to close his high school career by leading West Mifflin to a second WPIAL title in three seasons
Zane Griffaton leads West Mifflin in so many statistical categories that it’s easier to just list the ones in which he doesn’t. “He doesn’t lead us in triples. He’s got to get better at hitting triples,” West Mifflin coach Jeff Kuzma said tongue-in-cheek. All joking aside, though, Griffaton is having one of the best seasons…
PUP track notebook: A Penn State football recruit, Central Catholic junior Xxavier Thomas continues to leap to success as one of the WPIAL’s top jumpers
Xxavier Thomas has a unique spelling of his first name, so if you ask the personable teen why there’s two x’s in it, you’re bound to get an interesting and colorful explanation, right? “I’m not going to lie. I don’t know what my parents’ reasoning was behind that,” Thomas said with a laugh. “I’m definitely…
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Pittsburgh begins landslide mitigation work on Mount Washington
Pittsburgh began the first of three projects Monday to stabilize the hillsides on Mount Washington. The first work site will be along William Street, which will be closed between Arlington Avenue and Cola Street until December. Later, work will be done on Reese and Greeenleaf streets under a $10 million grant announced in December by…
In a sad but ‘soothing’ ceremony, Steelworkers observe Workers Memorial Day
Union leaders and members and others gathered Friday morning at the United Steelworkers headquarters Downtown to mark Workers Memorial Day, an annual event to “remember those who lost their lives on the job while also renewing our promise to fight for safer, healthier workplaces.” People who’ve attended these ceremonies describe them as “moving.” But you also…
PRT to offer South Hills rail riders free shuttles
Pittsburgh Regional Transit will offer free rides for customers in the South Hills whose light rail trips will be interrupted during an 11-week closure for construction that begins June 16. The agency will create temporary bus routes and operate rail shuttles while the light rail’s Red Line is closed between Overbrook Junction and South Hills…
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