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4 days ago | 
post-gazette.com | Hallie Lauer |Jimmy Cloutier
For months on the campaign trail, Mayor Ed Gainey has trumpeted claims of aggressively attacking Pittsburgh’s affordable housing crisis in ways no mayor has in decades. In speeches and debates, the mayor has repeatedly said his administration has “delivered” 1,600 units during his first term. “We have built more affordable housing than any administration in the last 20 years,” he said during a candidate forum in March, echoing it many times since.
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1 week ago | 
post-gazette.com | Gerrit De Vynck |Jimmy Cloutier
The U.S. Justice Department is doubling down on its attempt to break up Google by asking a federal judge to force the company to part with some of the technology powering the company's digital ad network. The proposed dismantling coincides with an ongoing federal effort to separate Google's Chrome browser from its dominant search engine.
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1 week ago | 
post-gazette.com | Benjamin Kail |Steve Bohnel |Jimmy Cloutier |Anya Litvak
NEW YORK — The Campaign Against Hunger was already struggling to feed thousands of families a week when the Trump administration pulled more than $1.3 million in grants. Demand has only increased at the New York nonprofit since the city emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic and the related economic insecurity. In a first for the pantry, however, it isn't just the jobless lining up for its fresh produce and meats. It's working people, too.
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2 weeks ago | 
post-gazette.com | Steve Bohnel |Jimmy Cloutier
For years, Bridgeville leaders and business and property owners along portions of business districts of Baldwin Street and Carol Avenue have aimed to fix a longstanding issue: flooding from McLaughlin Run. In June 2018, the community of under 5,000 people saw its most severe flood in its history, according to Borough Manager Joe Kauer. Over $5 million in damage and 48 businesses and 127 homes were impacted. One person died because of the flooding — Wendy Abbott, 64, of Upper St. Clair.
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1 month ago | 
post-gazette.com | Michael Sallah |Mike Wereschagin |Jimmy Cloutier
President Donald Trump last week issued executive orders designed to revive the use of coal in power plants, a practice that has been steadily declining for more than a decade. But the effort is likely to fail, energy experts said, because the fossil fuel faces some hurdles. The power that coal plants produce typically can't compete with cheaper, cleaner alternatives. And many plants that burn coal are simply too old and would need extensive and expensive upgrades to continue running.
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1 month ago | 
post-gazette.com | Michael Sallah |Mike Wereschagin |Jimmy Cloutier
For federal safety inspectors, the urgent call to their sprawling mining office near Pittsburgh was bleak: Man crushed in the rubble of an aging mine in the heart of coal country. Agents from the Mount Pleasant office arrived at the scene shortly after the body of Joseph Guzzo Jr. had been pulled from under the massive chunk of earth that collapsed in the mine tunnel four years ago.
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2 months ago | 
post-gazette.com | Megan Guza |Benjamin Kail |Jimmy Cloutier
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Adam Babetski |Jimmy Cloutier
In 2021, Washington County Commissioner Nick Sherman was one of many Pennsylvania officials facing a daunting task: Figure out how to spend $98 million in federal pandemic relief money or watch the money evaporate if the county missed its deadline. The cutoff for counties and municipalities across the country was still three years away at that point, but it takes time to get projects and spending approved.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Jimmy Cloutier
State leaders pledge to pay $1 million to help rehabilitate the long-neglected property After years of neglect that left once-teeming Century III mall a dilapidated and dangerous shell, the long-sought demolition of the abandoned shopping center is on track to wrap up sometime in 2026. At the same time, state leaders have announced a $1 million grant to help transform the hulking mall — once one of the largest in the world — into what local officials hope will be a mix of homes, shops and...
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Jimmy Cloutier |Stephana Ocneanu
City avoids criminal penalties for serious code violations, but private property owners are hauled into court In a distressed neighborhood where the city of Pittsburgh owns dozens of dangerous and decrepit homes, code inspectors descended on the aging brick house with the condemned sign plastered on the porch. The rotting roof, boarded up windows and an awning that hangs precariously in the front were enough for inspectors three years ago to declare the house a public hazard that needed...
