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Carnegie Mellon to Open Miami Campus After Multibillion-Dollar Gift
Carnegie Mellon University will open an innovative campus in Miami after a $3 billion donation from hedge fund CEO Kenneth Griffin, whose nationally...
2d agoRead it on Pittsburgh Post-GazetteGainey Admin. May Have Rigged PGH's Contract-Bidding System
Search warrants served on the city of Pittsburgh earlier this year sought records related to no-bid contracts after a whistleblower alleged the...
1w agoRead it on Pittsburgh Post-GazetteMayor says PGH's Financial Picture More Dire than Previously Known
Ten months ago, former Mayor Ed Gainey stood inside City Council chambers to deliver his final budget address — and to defend his financial...
09/03/26Read it on PPGPittsburgh Might Just Be the Most Dynamic City in America
The collapse of the steel industry was supposed to kill the Steel City, but my hometown never rusted away. Now it's having a major moment. On a...
08/21/26Read it on EsquirePittsburgh Audit Finds Gaps in Covid Relief Spending Records
Pittsburgh Controller Rachael Heisler in an audit released Wednesday said the city's Urban Redevelopment Authority was missing documentation about...
08/13/26Read it on TribLiveWhy Pittsburgh Restaurants Are Closing
Con Alma, the Downtown restaurant and jazz club, made waves when it launched a GoFundMe campaign last December. Though crowdfunding is more...
08/03/26Read it on TribLIVE.comThe Campaign to Push PGH's Image in the Nation's Capital
WASHINGTON — In a bustling transit station in the heart of the nation's capital, images were splashed across the walls, the columns, and the...
07/21/26Read it on Pittsburgh Post-GazetteIs the Future of Manufacturing Hiding in Pittsburgh?
Seeds of opportunity can be found amid the shuttered coal plants and generations of industrial expertise tucked into the Appalachian region —...
07/17/26Read it on Pittsburgh Post-GazetteKroger's Reentry Into Giant Eagle's History
Kroger's acquisition of Giant Eagle merges two companies with storied histories in Western Pennsylvania. The then-Eagle franchise first crossed...
07/02/26Read it on TribLIVE.comGiant Eagle to Be Acquired by Kroger
Pittsburgh's grocery scene is about to be upended. Cincinnati-based Kroger announced Wednesday morning that it is acquiring Giant Eagle in a...
07/01/26Read it on Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Former Mayor Bill Peduto Reflects on a Changing Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh’s former two-term mayor, Bill Peduto, has a guardian angel. In 1991, he asked his AIDS-stricken brother, Tom: “I want you to watch over me the rest of my life.” An hour after his 35-year-old brother died, Peduto got a call with a job offer that brought him home. He told me, “It took my brother a whole hour for me to come back.”
The Peduto brothers hail from a family that long watched over Pittsburgh. In 1923, Peduto’s grandfather, Serafino Zarroli, battled Klansmen in the streets of Carnegie. Peduto proudly recounts the century-old encounter. “My grandfather was one of the people from the town who met them on the bridge and fought them.” Nineteen years later, Zarroli helped found the United Steelworkers Union.

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