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3 days ago | 
post-gazette.com | Evan Robinson-Johnson |Jimmy Cloutier
If Pennsylvania wants to become a global hub for artificial intelligence, state players have to get the timing right. The Keystone State is competing with the rest of the country, and the world, in the race to house critical AI infrastructure and claim the jobs that come with it. It’s a race that state Sen. Greg Rothman, R-Cumberland, and other local legislators are trying to win. Mr. Rothman sees this as part of a much larger picture to changethe demographics of an aging state.
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3 weeks ago | 
post-gazette.com | Jimmy Cloutier |Madaleine Rubin
NEW YORK — Federal safety regulators have asked Elon Musk's car company to explain how its driverless taxis will avoid causing accidents when they hit the road in Texas next month before a national “robotaxi” launch that is key to keeping its stock price aloft.
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3 weeks ago | 
post-gazette.com | Maddie Aiken |Jimmy Cloutier
At the 127th commencement ceremony of the elite Carnegie Mellon University — one of the tougher schools in the country to get into and not an inexpensive place to study — Sal Khan received a massive round of applause Sunday.
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3 weeks 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 month 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 month 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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1 month 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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2 months 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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Feb 14, 2025 | 
post-gazette.com | Megan Guza |Benjamin Kail |Jimmy Cloutier
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