‘We can build peace from Pittsburgh to Palestine,’ Lee says after resounding win
Shortly after 9:30 Tuesday night, Wasi Mohamed stepped onto a small stage in a crowded second-floor ballroom at Downtown’s Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel, grabbed a microphone from a podium and announced he was going to find his boss and bring her into the room. The crowd then broke into a spontaneous chant, “Wasi! Wasi! Wasi!” Mohamed…
Pittsburgh Regional Transit hears bus riders’ needs, expects route changes early next year
Pittsburgh Regional Transit’s bus line redesign process is finding what the agency suspected: Riding patterns have changed since the pandemic and the agency’s ability to grow will depend on meeting those needs. The agency’s route planning division began a review of more than 90 bus routes last October and discussed the first round of its…
Global Links and Western Pa. Diaper Bank holding free diaper distribution in McKeesport
In support of local families experiencing financial hardship, humanitarian aid organization Global Links and Western Pennsylvania Diaper Bank will hold a drive-up diaper distribution event this Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at McKeesport Area Senior High School. Families and caregivers of young children are invited to line up by car to receive approximately a one-month supply of…
‘Our students are not throwaways’: Parents speak out about school plan
You’ve got to speak loudly if you want to be heard on South Bellefield Avenue in Oakland during rush hour, so that’s what Paulette Foster did shortly after 5 p.m. on Monday. “Why do we always have to be on the chopping block?” Foster said, her voice rising above the occasional roar of a passing…
‘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,…
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…
‘Su(Stained) Reality’: KRUNK students will perform their new album in a Nashville concert
Dahnayl Champine had been working on a new song for some time. But Dj Loveasy just couldn’t finish it. “I had the words and thought this would be good,” said the 16-year-old musician, emcee and producer who is a junior at Woodland Hills High School. “I just missed the lead, and I didn’t have a…
Seton LaSalle’s sweet-swinging shortstop Gio LoNero in a class of his own among WPIAL’s top hitters
It’s often said that baseball is a game of failure, but somebody must have forgotten to tell that to Gio LoNero. A multi-talented pitcher-shortstop with a laser-like focus on the mound and in the batter’s box, LoNero was already on the short list of the top overall players in the area going into the season.…
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PUP baseball notebook: Mt. Lebanon two-way star Graham Keen has wasted little time showing why he’s the state’s No. 1-ranked freshman
MLB scouts and front office personnel will be flocking to Mt. Lebanon games this spring to lay eyes on David Shields, a fantastic senior pitcher-outfielder who is projected to be an early round pick in July’s draft. While they’re there, there’s a good chance a new player will jump on their radar, a 6-foot-4, 190-pound…
Pittsburgh Regional Transit finishes Homestead-to McKeesport bus improvement plans
After more than two years of planning, Pittsburgh Regional Transit has settled on the types of improvements it needs to provide more reliable service along Route 837 between Homestead and McKeesport. But it only has money for a small portion of the work and will have to work with other agencies and municipalities for the…
PUP track notebook: The scoop on Scoop Smith is that the Woodland Hills multi-sport star might be the WPIAL’s top sprinter
Scoop Smith has made such a large impact in multiple sports early in his high school career that it’s sometimes easy to forget he’s only a sophomore. Smith, a 5-foot-6, 145-pound speedster who attends Woodland Hills, has been named all-conference in football twice and all-section in basketball once, and last football season earned all-state honors…
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