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Fitz deflects on ACJ. Rich Fitzgerald, 2022 Pittsburgh Magazine “Pittsburgher of the Year,” is having a rough start to 2023. The Allegheny County Executive deflected questions about the Allegheny County Jail in an interview with WESA's
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Four days after Christmas, 2022, workers at Byrnes & Kiefer commercial bakery and warehouse in Callery, Butler County, cleaned and counted inventory to prepare for a major inspection. Around 1pm, management bought pizza, from Milano's down
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UPMC purges independent pharmacies: A new investigative report reveals how UPMC "dropped over 1,200 pharmacies from its health plan, around half of the stores it previously carried." Most of the dropped pharmacies were independently owned
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Shell plastic plant pollutes: That didn't take long. Shell Chemical's enormous, pollution-spewing plastics plant has already exceeded air pollution limits for smog-producing volatile organic chemicals (VOCs). "Each 12-month period that
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“The whole country is mad about this,” says Patrick Walsh, director of purchasing at Pennsylvania Macaroni Co. in the Strip District. Lemon Blennd has been a summertime staple in Western PA and beyond since its creation in 1914. The frosty
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Pittsburgh City Council is back to full strength. Community advocate Barb Warwick took the oath of office Monday morning in City Council chambers, flanked by her husband and four children. Warwick soundly defeated three other candidates in
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Workers voice steel's history: Bruce Spiegel's new documentary, "City of Steel," traces the rise and decline of Pittsburgh's steel industry through the voices of the workers who made it happen. The documentary is available to stream for
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