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A massive, $6 billion plastics plant is “approximately 95% complete,” said Bill Watson, Shell Polymers Monaca general manager, during a “virtual community meeting” hosted by the company Thursday evening. “We've got about 4,000 construction

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Local billionaire Thomas Tull is throwing himself a festival to celebrate his new record label and inspire a community around local music in Pittsburgh. It’s too bad he didn't know 300 local bands already had plans that night. Tull, who

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Faith leaders, poets, and musicians marched alongside labor and immigrant rights groups Sunday as hundreds of people took to the streets for a May Day march and rally organized by Casa San José , LCLAA Pittsburgh, APALA Pittsburgh, and the

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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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The Associated Press reported Thursday on a biased algorithm used by child welfare officials in Allegheny County. According to an AP review of Carnegie Mellon University data, the algorithm had a “pattern of flagging a disproportionate

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