I’m in airports every week for work but have never been through Pittsburgh until this week. They did you folks right! It’s beautiful, spacious and well-planned! The TSA stations with the automatic bin conveyors are a dream.

It sets an incredible first impression for your city. Others should take note.

This day extracts a heavy toll

I was picking up a cheese pizza for someone on DoorDash. The restaurant sent out the cheese pizza by mistake with another person and had a pepperoni ready to go. They ripped off the pepperonis by hand and then put the pizza back in the oven to melt the cheese back together. If someone has an allergy to pork, or cannot eat it for other reasons that is not ok. I have included a pic of the plate of pepperoni they ripped off for reference. Be careful out there.

Sorry about that. Maybe it's time for my own sub?

Bro. I recently started driving DoorDash while I’m between jobs and WTF?! Like one in every 10-15 stop signs are non-visible, usually due to overgrown vegetation. Between this and the power outages being worsened by untrimmed branches, I am genuinely asking why the city of Pittsburgh does not trim their overgrown flora?

War powers vote in the Senate. He voted with the dark side again and gave the narcissist a pass on his Iran stupidity. Collins flipped for the R as she’s fighting for her life in November

Bit of a long shot, but is anyone missing a kitten around East Pittsburgh, Turtle Creek, Braddock?

She’s a sweet little thing, I took her to scan for a chip but no luck. She’s super friendly, seems like she must have been someone’s pet at least for a bit.

I have lived in Pittsburgh for almost 20 years now and I have never seen this type of bug before. Any idea what it is?

I would love to get in touch with a journalist or someone who could help construct a story on magistrates when deciding domestic violence charges and judges downtown who let people out on bail. What guidelines do they follow? Why aren’t criminal backgrounds taken into effect- such as patterns in the person charged. When is enough going to be enough? When are women’s lives going to be protected and men who harm women be held accountable? Women on men too. Who is responsible when I’m shouting from rooftops and doing what i can to stop a man from harming other women; harms another? And another? And all we can do is go down and file a PFA? Why is there no intervention after a final PFA hearing? A consequence? It was enough to be signed why not a fine, a class for the offender (think anger management) a data base???? Something!!

Oakmont Borough issued this in response to WPXI’s 3-sentence “story” that had this as its headline: “Oakmont approves zoning proposal that will allow data center developments”

As the title and images suggest, there’s a fun new installment on Rte. 51 (Saw Mill Run) right by the Woodruff St. intersection.

For those more informed, is this a Flock camera?

Can’t say I’m shocked.

I drive DoorDash, and today is the first time I have had to stand outside of a restaurant while waiting to pick up an order. I don’t know what is wrong with their plumbing at the moment, but it smells like poop inside the restaurant where you wait to pick up orders. It’s bad.

My friend would like us to look like peaky blinders for his wedding in October. Where should we go and get fitted?

Hey yinz

Anyone else out there take random drives as therapy? I’ve been doing it for years and I need fresh spots. Usually I will just pick somewhere on the map and get lost. Looking for under three hours out of the greater pgh area. Bonus points for lots of countryside and small towns/state parks to drive through but it could be anywhere.

Cheers!

EDIT: Wow thank you for all the awesome suggestions! So many to add to the list! You guys rule :)

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Even with new protections added for union members, Pittsburgh City Council and community advocates remain divided on the city’s plan to borrow tens of millions of dollars to stimulate development in Downtown.

City officials and the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh are looking to create a transit revitalization improvement district — known as a TRID — where a $50 million bond issue will help fund new development in Downtown.

On Wednesday, council members unanimously approved a measure to add worker protections to the legislation, but concerns remain about the prudence of taking out a bond and whether the development will be beneficial to the city as a whole.

The new amendments have made it so that if the TRID is approved any building service employee — janitorial staff, maintenance workers and security staff among others — will be represented by a collective bargaining agreement.

Developers also will have to include in their application for funding a detailed plan for working with the union and for preventing or mitigating the displacement of current employees.

During Wednesday’s meeting, Kim Smith attempted to tell council members about how she recently lost her job as a cleaner at the Historical Alcoa Building at William Penn Place. The building was recently converted from office space into apartments.

Smith, overcome with emotion, could not finish her testimony. Another resident was able to finish reading her prepared comments for her.

“That building was like her second home,” the other resident read aloud from the podium. “She spent nearly four decades there and planned to stay there until retirement.”

“Workers like Kim have spent their lives cleaning, maintaining, securing and operating these buildings,” said Peter Schmidt, a Western Pennsylvania district leader for SIEU 32BJ. “Across Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania, commercial and residential conversions are resulting in the loss of good union jobs.”

Last week, 32BJ and advocacy group Pennsylvania United sent letters to council members urging them to include the measures approved Wednesday into the official TRID legislation.

The newly approved amendments also require any development that receives more than $100,000 to pay workers prevailing wage.

While council was united on adding the worker protections, that’s where their agreement ended.

For close to three hours, council members and URA leadership debated the merits of creating the TRID.

Council members Barb Warwick, Deb Gross and Khari Mosley all voted against the measure during the preliminary vote Wednesday.

One of the main concerns raised was the idea of the city taking out a $50 million bond while its own budget is on unstable financial footing. Early projections have shown that Pittsburgh could spend about $24 million more than anticipated this year.

Gross said she didn’t think the need to invest in Downtown was as urgent as it was made out to be, and that it didn’t justify taking out a bond at this time.

“It sounds like the taxpayers giving money to private developers for something that does not directly benefit them,” Warwick said.

The URA and supportive council members, including Bobby Wilson, who represents Downtown, have for months cited the decline in property assessments in the Central Business District as one of the main reasons the city needed to implement the TRID.

Downtown makes up a quarter of the city’s property tax revenue and reduced assessments on the city’s most valuable properties have also cut into the amount of money coming into the city.

But Gross, and many of the people who gathered to share their opinions with council, said they believe the rest of the city should also benefit from taxpayer investments.

“There is gap financing needed all over the city,” Gross said. “This won’t help them.”

The opposition to the plan extends beyond council members as well.

During the more than 90-minute public comment period, residents also continued to voice long-running concerns that the portion of the bond earmarked for transit infrastructure upgrades — $10 million — is not nearly enough, and that the plans remain vague.

“It only firmly committed $10 million … in borrowing to public infrastructure and makes no guaranteed commitments to public transit,” said Maddy McGrady, a co-chair of the Pittsburgh Housing Justice Table, an affordable-housing advocacy group.

Despite the resistance from other members and the public, a majority of council members are supportive of the TRID.

“If we don’t do anything, then we know what’s going to happen,” Councilwoman Erika Strassburger said. “Property values will continue to decline and we will not have the ability to invest in the rest of our neighborhoods — particularly the most vulnerable ones.”

Three car accident by West View. SUV vs refrigerator truck vs F-150 or some other kind of truck.

Yes we’re doing this again, unfortunately.

I think it looks pretty cool.

18 Estate Sales happening this weekend (7/24-7/26) in, around, and outside of Pittsburgh, PA

EAST

Uptown – Facebook - 2020 5^th Ave, 15219 - Sat 10-1

SOUTH EAST

Irwin – PghEstateSales - 657 Wyandotte,  - Fri-Sun 9-2

Jeannette – Mon Valley - 115 Locust St, 15644 - Sat/Sun 9-2

Ruffsdale – BLS - 830 PA 31, 15679 - Fri 12-5, Sat 10-2

SOUTH

Mt Washington – Allay - 422 Bailey Ave, 15211 - Sat 8-3

Greentree – LAW - 11 Green Oak Ln, 15221 - Sat 8:30-3

Monongahela – CL - 121 Tower St, 15063 - Sat 8-2, Sun 9-2

Charleroi – CL - 312 Crest Ave, 15022 - Fri-Sun 9-2

Uniontown – CL - 57 Eighth St, 15401 - Fri/Sat 10-?

WEST

Crafton Heights – Green Man - 1110 Fredonia St, 15220 - Sat 8-3

Ingram – CL - 80 W Prospect Ave, 15205 - Sat 9-3

Carnegie – JD Llama - 421/423 W Main, 15106 - Sat 9-3, Sun 9-2

NORTH WEST

Sewickley – J Maslanka - 21 Alcott Dr, 15143 - Sat 7:30-3

NORTH

North Side – B4UM - 607 Lockhart, 15212 - Sat 8-2

Allison Park – Allay - 1852 Stage Dr, 15101 - Sat 8-3

Valencia – Jay W - 1830 Liberty Way, 16059 - Sat 7:30-3

NORTH EAST

Lower Burrell – CL - 149 Delberta Rd, 15068 - Sat/Sun 8-1

Cabot – CL - 214 Stoneybrook, 16023 - Fri-Sat 8-6

It’s on a concrete foundation that they added earlier this year. There’s another structure about 20 feet away but I couldn’t see it well. I also saw a large cone about the size of the pictured structure that said something like “Starflight” or “Starflower”. They closed the park and turned off the fountain while they install it.

My wife got a voicemail from someone pretending to be DLC and needing to talk about our bill (which is paid). I know DLC scams are somewhat common but what I don't get is what is even the point of them?

I looked up the phone number they asked us to call...it's for a local pediatrician. How are they going to get any of my money if they just ask me to call a pediatrics office?

I’m looking for new opportunities and unfortunately with the horrible tech industry, there aren’t many options. I’ve been considering PNC since they have a lot of openings. What are your experiences with the company? I know RTO has been a huge negative, but as someone that is working in person I’m used to it by now. Would love to hear your day to day, pros and cons, etc.