The Pittsburgh Record: Recent Episodes

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“The Pittsburgh Record,” hosted by Adam Shuck, is Postindustrial's first original daily newsletter and podcast. “The Pittsburgh Record” is a short podcast roundup of all the biggest news in Pittsburgh, delivered daily around 4 p.m.

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It’s Wednesday, January 29, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • Years in the making, Junior Achievement’s “BizTown” opened in South Fayette this week, welcoming hundreds of school children into a mock “town square” populated by regional corporate brands

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

The Pittsburgh Record, from Postindustrial Media, is created by Adam Shuck and edited by Matt Stroud, with music by Phil Ortmann and sound editing by Tim Mulhern.

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It’s Tuesday, January 28, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • In a Washington Post article addressing what it calls a “splinter” in Democratic unity in Pennsylvania caused by fracking politics, Mayor Bill Peduto shares that he’s leaning toward an endorsement of either Michael Bloomberg or Pete Buttigieg

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

The Pittsburgh Record, from Postindustrial Media, is created by Adam Shuck and edited by Matt Stroud, with music by Phil Ortmann and sound editing by Tim Mulhern.

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It’s Monday, January 27, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • The newest round of drinking water sample testing shows that PWSA has dropped below federal action thresholds for lead, while a recently released RAND study shows that Pittsburgh’s sewage overflows total billions more gallons of pollution into our rivers than previously thought 

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

The Pittsburgh Record, from Postindustrial Media, is created by Adam Shuck and edited by Matt Stroud, with music by Phil Ortmann and sound editing by Tim Mulhern.

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It’s Friday, January 24, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • In today’s episode of The Daily, from the New York Times, Pittsburgh and fracking take center stage — in what amounts to an argument for Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Thursday, January 23, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • Powerful Pennsylvania Republican House Speaker Mike Turzai becomes the latest, and most high profile, legislator to announce retirement in 2020

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, January 22, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • With State Rep. Bill Kortz, an Allegheny County Democrat, announcing he won’t seek reelection, the number of Pennsylvania legislators retiring in 2020 now totals over a dozen

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Tuesday, January 21, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • A newly published Rolling Stone investigation details widespread radioactive contamination caused by the oil and gas industry across the nation. And the Marcellus shale brine waste from our region tests the highest for radioactivity

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Monday, January 20, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • The Paris Review shares an archival recording of August Wilson on the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. at a New York City reading in 1991

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Friday, January 17, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • This week U.S. Steel was fined over $740,000, and Energy Transfer over $2 million, for violations related to environmental standards

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Thursday, January 16, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • Billionaire and former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg has aggressively staffed up in the battleground state of Pennsylvania for his 2020 Democratic nomination bid. A Pittsburgher has been named state director.

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, January 15, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • Legislation sponsored by Pittsburgh Councilman Ricky Burgess would amend the city code of conduct to ban city officials and staff from conducting “hateful activity”

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Monday, January 13, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • We’re rounding up local news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Friday, January 10, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • Maryland’s Republican Governor Larry Hogan is suing Pennsylvania

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Thursday, January 9, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • As the activist Sunrise Movement, a youth organization championing the Green New Deal, endorses Sen. Bernie Sanders for president, Congressman Mike Doyle and Mayor Bill Peduto both shun the progressive climate policy

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, January 8, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania are set to play a starring role in a new PR and advertising push from the American Petroleum Institute to defend fracking as the 2020 Democratic primary heats up

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Tuesday, January 7, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • The Westmoreland County Courthouse was evacuated due to a bomb threat yesterday, and the newly seated Democratic sheriff later found his office thoroughly trashed

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Monday, January 6, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • Hundreds of Pittsburghers gathered at Schenley Plaza Saturday to protest Trump’s assassination of Iranian military general Qasem Soleimani and America’s ongoing imperialist wars

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Friday, January 3, 2020. In today’s episode: 

  • Three new progressive members were sworn in to serve on Allegheny County Council yesterday, and the new members promptly held a Council president election with a curious result that marks a shift in how the typically “rubber stamp” legislative body may interact with County Executive Rich Fitzgerald

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Friday, December 20, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We’re rounding up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Thursday, December 19, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • The Pittsburgh Public Schools board yesterday approved its new budget, but then a subsequent vote to raise the necessary funds for it, by raising property taxes, failed, leaving the district in limbo for now

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, December 18, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We’re rounding up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Tuesday, December 17, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We’re rounding up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Monday, December 16, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • The day-long Public Education Forum brought seven 2020 Democratic candidates to town on Saturday. Before his scheduled slot, one candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, visited with workers organizing to form a union and had tough words for their employer, UPMC.

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Friday, December 13, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We’re rounding up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Thursday, December 12, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Energy Transfer shareholder lawsuits recently filed in Texas may lead to more detail into the FBI’s investigation of Gov. Tom Wolf’s DEP permitting for the controversial Mariner East pipeline project

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, December 11, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Nationally, at the state level, and locally, organized labor has so far given a mixed response to the new USMCA trade deal from Trump and the Democrats

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Tuesday, December 10, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • At a press conference outside City Council chambers yesterday, economic justice advocates criticized the administration’s budgetary priorities and community process

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Monday, December 9. In today’s episode: 

  • In selecting Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and three others as the recipients of the inaugural “Moe Coleman Award,” named for the late founder of Pitt’s Institute of Politics, Joe Sabino Mistick and Jim Roddey argue for “civil discourse” and “bipartisanship.”

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Friday, December 6, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • In an arguable Pittsburgh first, locally-based language-learning app company Duolingo has joined the ranks of the “unicorns,” an industry term referencing to their over $1 billion valuation

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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t’s Thursday, December 5, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • PublicSource’s Oliver Morrison reports how the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority, or ALCOSAN, has been successfully swayed by public outcry to embrace green infrastructure for its massive, EPA-required stormwater overhaul. But rhetoric and execution don’t always align.

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, December 4, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • After a well-publicized string of loose alligators apprehended in Pittsburgh, Councilwoman Darlene Harris, with just weeks until she’s succeeded by Councilman-elect Bobby Wilson, has ensured tighter city regulations for reptile ownership

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Tuesday, December 3, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • One Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers, and more announced that Pittsburgh will host a first-ever Democratic presidential forum focused specifically on public education

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Monday, December 2, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • In a letter in the Trib, Pittsburgh Councilman Corey O’Connor and Pittsburgh United director Jennifer Rafanan Kennedy call out the state’s “cynical preemption law”

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Friday, November 22, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Tonight, per tradition, Pittsburgh is ushering in the Thanksgiving holiday with... Christmas season kick-off Light Up Night. But why is it before Thanksgiving? And how did it start in the first place? The Incline explains.

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Thursday, November 21, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” gets a hometown premiere

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, November 20, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • As Pittsburgh Magazine’s Hal B. Klein reports, pioneering farmers’ cooperative and CSA trailblazer Penn’s Corner Farm Alliance announced it’s dissolving and becoming a division of Paragon Foods

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Tuesday, November 19, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • In an unprecedented act, Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members working in the Post-Gazette newsroom voted “no confidence” in their editorial and ownership managers, Keith Burris and twins John and Allan Block

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Monday, November 18, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We’re rounding up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Friday, November 15, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We’re rounding up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Thursday, November 14, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Gov. Tom Wolf and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman provided their first public comments since the AP reported this week that the FBI had opened investigations into the Wolf Administration's Mariner East pipeline project permitting process

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, November 13, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Mayor Peduto presented his State of the City budget address to City Council yesterday, announcing expanded policing, calling for state oversight of the public school system, and teasing his long-promised “OnePGH” plan

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Tuesday, November 12, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Gov. Wolf, the top Democratic executive in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, has become the latest to push back on Mayor Peduto’s petrochemical development comments

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Monday, November 11, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Mayor Peduto speaks with local media in depth about the fallout from his surprise comments at the Climate Action Summit — comments that enraged fossil fuel business interests and their boosters, including mayoral allies

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Friday, November 8, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has posted record sales figures — and it has private industry and some Republicans questioning the state’s “flexible pricing” powers granted in 2016

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Thursday, November 7, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • The new property tax to fund Pittsburgh parks maintenance will head to a divided City Council to hash out implementation

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, November 6, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We’re rounding up the results from yesterday’s General Election

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Tuesday, November 5, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Yesterday afternoon, Pittsburgh Council members Gross, Coghill, Kail-Smith, and Harris came out against the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy property tax referendum appearing on city ballots today, joining other critics of the parks funding proposal

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Monday, November 4, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • A variety of statewide and local races are poised to bring big change — and there’s one day left before Election Day tomorrow.

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Friday, November 1, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Swift and fierce, pro-fracking Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and corporate-boosting Allegheny Conference CEO Stefani Pashman condemn Mayor Bill Peduto’s statement against petrochemical development

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Thursday, October 31, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Mayor Bill Peduto received praise at the Climate Action Summit this week when he came out publicly against further corporate petrochemical growth in Western Pennsylvania. But it also sparked backlash from the organized building trades sector, which has been defending the industry.

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, October 30, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • A report from The Intercept’s Akela Lacy details a high-dollar fundraiser for Joe Biden in Pittsburgh next week, co-chaired by two major real estate executives

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Tuesday, October 29, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • The Capital-Star’s Stephen Caruso reported from a Pennsylvania House committee hearing yesterday chaired by climate science denier State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe. And, with some attendees wearing literal tin foil hats, it appears to have been quite the dire spectacle

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Monday, October 28, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • As Food & Water Watch policy analyst Jim Walsh is the latest to argue, Gov. Tom Wolf’s intention to bring Pennsylvania into the market-based, cap-and-trade Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is “meaningless policy” in the face of the climate crisis

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Friday, October 25, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We’re rounding up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Thursday, October 24, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We’re rounding up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Wednesday, October 23, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Pittsburgh drinking water is contaminated with carcinogenic chemicals at levels surpassing state and national averages, a new report shares — and fossil fuel extraction is a likely major factor

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Tuesday, October 22, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We’re rounding up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Monday, October 21, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We’re rounding up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Friday, October 18, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We’re rounding up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Thursday, October 17, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • A three-part Pitt News series investigates accusations that Pitt administration intentionally stalled a faculty union election through bargaining unit list confusion

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, October 16, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Yesterday we learned that Trump would be paying another visit to Pittsburgh, to deliver the keynote at the Shale Insight conference next week, while ExxonMobil scouts are sniffing around for what could be Beaver County’s second petrochemical development

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Tuesday, October 15, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • A recent email chastising Allegheny County Democratic Committee members for supporting non-endorsed candidates, like progressive District Attorney challenger Lisa Middleman, speaks to a larger, ongoing tension between the old guard establishment of the Democratic Party structures and a bolder progressive movement

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Monday, October 14, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • With three weeks to go until the November general election, the campaign between longtime incumbent District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. and independent challenger Lisa Middleman, an Allegheny County public defender, is heating up

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Friday, October 11, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Pitt has announced a five-year, $4.2 million grant from the right-wing Charles Koch Foundation to go toward the creation of a new “Governance and Markets” graduate program

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Thursday, October 10, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • As U.S. Steel faces plummeting market value and announces a “restructuring” — and as its short-lived CFO Kevin Bradley departs with over $1 million in personal payouts — we’re taking a look back at the 1980s, when the company was led by the late David Milton Roderick, who died at the age of 95 last Saturday

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, October 9, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We’re rounding up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Tuesday, October 8, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • With about 250 diagnoses nationwide each year, Ewing sarcoma is an extremely rare childhood bone cancer. In Washington County’s Canon-McMillan School District, there’ve been at least six documented cases of it — but at a community meeting yesterday, state officials maintained that this number is not statistically significant enough to represent a “cluster”

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Monday, October 7, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • The PG’s Paula Reed Ward reports on the case of four teenagers prosecuted and jailed for 15 months for a Hill District shooting — despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary — calling an entire system into question

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Friday, October 4, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We’re rounding up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Thursday, October 3, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We’re rounding up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Wednesday, October 2, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We’re rounding up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Tuesday, October 1, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Dr. Richard Moriarty and colleagues at the Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh developed what would become the iconic poison symbol Mr. Yuk. This week, Moriarty turns 80, and today the city is celebrating his life and work

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Monday, September 30, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We round up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Thursday, September 26, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We round up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, September 25, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • The Republican-dominated Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee yesterday blocked widely-supported reform on guns, while advancing a measure that further prevents municipalities from defending their own ordinances against firearms

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Tuesday, September 24, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • We round up some of the major news items from the city of Pittsburgh, our region, and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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It’s Monday, September 23, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Pittsburgh-based employees of HCL America, a tech contractor working with Google in Bakery Square, will hold a vote tomorrow to decide whether to unionize. Management — and some employees — are against the effort

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Friday, September 20, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Around the planet, including here in Pittsburgh, people mobilized for the biggest day of climate action in history

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Thursday, September 19, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • A ruling from the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board’s Hearing Examiner found that the University of Pittsburgh inappropriately coerced graduate student workers out of voting to form a union, and a new election has been ordered — a victory for student workers organizing for democracy in the workplace

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, September 18, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • From 2016 to 2018, the number of Pennsylvanians hospitalized for opioid abuse and overdose decreased by almost 25%. But the opioid crisis --- and litigation against Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family --- continues

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Tuesday, September 17, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Away from the coasts and sheltered from most natural disasters, will Pittsburgh become a destination for climate crisis refugees over the coming decades? A PublicSource article considers this possible future

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Monday, September 16, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • An analysis from the Philadelphia Inquirer and Spotlight PA shows how the Pennsylvania Legislature has passed fewer and fewer pieces of actual legislation over the past four decades, instead relying on the more ceremonial path of “resolutions” — but the report leaves out some key factors

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Friday, September 13, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • A number of library systems in the Pittsburgh region are abolishing late fees, part of a growing trend, and coming after a resolution from the American Library Association identified the fines as “a form of social inequity”

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Thursday, September 12, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Pennsylvania is the last state in the Northeastern region to still have a death penalty law on the books. Now, a rare and powerful tool granted to the state Supreme Court — “King’s Bench” — is being used to test the constitutionality of capital punishment

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, September 11, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Following the passage of Assembly Bill 5 in California, what’s the future for gig workers across the country and in Pittsburgh — and what’s the future for companies like Uber, whose model rests on their exploited labor?

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Tuesday, September 10, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • “Affordable housing” can sound like a subjective concept, but per federal metrics and the industry-accepted index known as “area median income,” or AMI, affordability can also be tied to a concrete number — whether or not it’s something a household can actually afford

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Monday, September 9, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Two dozen food delivery robots will launch in Oakland this month, part of a broader university campus deployment for the tech company Starship

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Friday, September 6, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • With the Post-Gazette’s Joyce Gannon’s report from yesterday looking at how E Properties and Development, the new owner of four buildings once part of the Hill House Association, has been working with Hill District community members to ensure the institution’s legacy, let’s revisit our dive into the history of the Hill House. (This story originally aired July 11, 2019)

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It’s Thursday, September 5, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • A state audit has found that for-profit pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, have likely been overcharging Pennsylvania’s Medicaid program for prescription drugs — but because they’re private companies, the details have been kept from the public

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, September 4, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • From the City-County Building to the hundreds of warehouses, community centers, emergency stations, and more, the Peduto Administration is moving to curb carbon dioxide emissions from city-owned buildings in a new “net-zero” plan presented to City Council yesterday

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  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Tuesday, September 3, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • From the early 19th century “pauper schools” to today’s mixed state-and-local education funding, despite various reform measures in between, the way we pay for Pennsylvania schools rests on staggeringly unequal disparities between rich districts and poor districts. But a forthcoming Commonwealth Court case could create a “landmark” change

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Friday, August 30, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Back in his home district for August recess, freshman Democratic Congressman Conor Lamb’s careful moderation has faced an impatient progressive base demanding more action against Trump and the GOP

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

We’ll be taking off for Labor Day, so look for the next episode of The Pittsburgh Record on Tuesday, September 3rd.

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It’s Thursday, August 29, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Hundreds of parents of students at Pittsburgh Public Schools are calling on the district to stop using Roundup, the leading weed killer, whose active ingredient glyphosate has been identified as a carcinogen. They’re part of a global pushback against chemical corporations Monsanto and Bayer.

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, August 28, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • As PublicSource’s Brittany Hailer has reported, schools across the county are spending thousands of dollars to hold role-play trainings where staff, teachers, and students are taught how to actively combat a potential active shooter. But are these trainings helping?

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Tuesday, August 27, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Though members of the Amish community are only a handful in the grand scheme of the United States, their politics — whether or not they choose to participate in the system — are fascinating, and part of Pennsylvania’s diverse electorate

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Monday, August 26, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Polling showing an appetite for gun control in American suburbs, including in Pennsylvania, comes as Pittsburgh-based retailer Dick’s shows its relative strength after tightening firearms sales in its stores

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Friday, August 23, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • Governor Tom Wolf’s sweeping proposal Restore PA would remediate brownfields, strengthen internet access, and improve stormwater infrastructure. But its financing relies on the production capacity of the fossil fuel industry, tying Pennsylvania to 20 more years of fracking

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Thursday, August 22, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • After some six months on the shelf, yesterday Allegheny County Council held its first public hearing on proposed legislation that would create a county-wide citizen police review board

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  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Wednesday, August 21, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • A Buzzfeed investigation sheds light on the cozy — and financially bound — relationship between huge private insurance companies and the justice system, with Pennsylvania playing a starring role

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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It’s Tuesday, August 20, 2019. In today’s episode: 

  • From Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, and around the country, why has it been such a difficult, long endeavor to secure a reliable voting machine process?

  • And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region

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