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In an annual report on city finances, Pittsburgh City Controller Rachael Heisler said that while some revenue streams have recovered to pre-pandemic levels, the city's expenditures are still on track to outpace the money coming in.
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Pennsylvania’s energy efficiency workforce could grow from about 75,000 jobs now to 200,000, according to a study from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. -
Pittsburgh City Council approved a $133,000 expansion of its ShotSpotter contract Tuesday to implement the devices in Carrick. -
Offshore wind, which makes electricity without emitting carbon dioxide, is a key plank of President Biden’s plan to lower carbon emissions. -
Lee's position on environmental issues has long been underscored by concerns that pollution hurts low-income communities most. -
Under a related deal, users who return devices by Aug. 9 can get an extra $100. As part of the recall, the company is offering repairs, replacements or refunds of the machines' cost. -
Pro-Palestine protesters at Schenley Plaza are planning to have a final dinner tonight before vacating the premises, bringing to an end a nearly week-long protest. -
The William Pitt Union will resume regular operating hours today after the university temporarily closed it during a pro-Palestinian protest yesterday. -
Film scholar Adam Hart's new book "Raising The Dead" draws on George Romero's archives to shed new light on the zombie-film auteur.
Film scholar Adam Hart's new book "Raising The Dead" draws on George Romero's archives to shed new light on the zombie-film auteur.
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Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority's OwnPGH program in Pittsburgh has sold 100 homes since it launched last year. -
In 2021, Mellon Park became Pittsburgh’s first designated Arboretum; Westinghouse Park in the Point Breeze neighborhood is the other. -
A new report by the non-partisan, non-profit group Alliance for the Great Lakes found that 86% of litter collected on Great Lakes beaches contains plastics. -
Thousands of employees at federal contractors do not have whistleblower protections despite 2013 lawA whistleblower reported issues at an affordable housing complex to HUD. But a gap in the law meant she wasn’t protected from retaliation. -
Pennsylvania awards $200M to expand high-speed internet access, and a lot more is on the way. But the looming end of a federal program that helps low-income families afford broadband underscores the challenge of ensuring universal access.
