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Psychedelic Club of Pittsburgh provides a meeting ground for the psychedelically curious and inclined

December 4, 2023

Soft light poured out the windows of an old bricklayer's mansion turned event space in Wilkinsburg. Inside, roughly 20 people sat around two dining room tables, guarded by a maze of brightly colored halls and side rooms filled with plants a

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Courts bypassed open bidding for Allegheny County’s private juvenile detention contract

When the Fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania issued a contract to nonprofit operator Adelphoi to take over Shuman Juvenile Detention Center, it did so with virtually no public input or other government oversight

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All eyes on Pittsburgh’s high-stakes federal affordable housing lawsuit

Several legal watchdogs, including a racial justice group founded at the request of John F. Kennedy and the nation’s oldest libertarian legal foundation are closely monitoring a recent federal lawsuit challenging Pittsburgh’s inclusionary

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Interviewed by Pittsburgh Independent, Dan Muessig is serving a 60 month sentence for conspiracy to distribute 100+ kilograms of cannabis.||||||Dan Muessig outside the entrance to The Store, which sold cannabis flower, edibles, concentrates, and prerolls.|Federal agents unbeknowingly filmed Dan Muessig.||Dale Worton operated The Store with Dan Muessig. Dale was once implicated in a “skunk oil balloon bombing of a Christmas Eve dinner in Shadyside Presbyterian Church.”|

Dan goes to prison today, or: Free Dos! Last of the OGs

Dan Muessig keeps it real. Like, really fucking real. Dan ran “the Store,” Pittsburgh’s destination, invite-only underground cannabis dispensary, 7-days-a-week, 12-hours-a-day in the middle of an East End neighborhood for six straight years

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Remembering that time Bill Peduto surveilled Pittsburgh social media in secret and nobody in town cared, or: how I learned to love independent media

Here’s a peek at how the news is made. Or sometimes isn’t. Last May, City Paper’s Ryan Deto reported on the May 12, 2021, City Council committee hearing, during which it came to light that Mayor Bill Peduto’s office wanted to renew the

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