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The play title invokes the name of Justin Timberlake — but will the pop superstar actually be there on stage? Playwright Matt Schatz isn’t telling. Audiences will find out as City Theatre premieres Schatz’s “An Untitled New Play by Justin Timberlake,” in a co-production with Pittsburgh CLO. The piece will

90.5 WESA Michelle Naccarati-Chapkis of Women for a Healthy Environment speaks at a rally urging city officials to slow down passage of plan to spend $335 million in federal aid. After four-and-a-half-hours of public testimony -- and a follow-up 45-minute rally -- on how to spend $335 million of federal coronavirus aid, the big message for Pittsburgh City Council was: You haven’t heard from the public enough. And while a preliminary vote on the plan is slated for Wednesday morning, it won’t...

Image from: YouTube.com As weve known for some time, Fox got nothin. They have no idea how to handle Joe Biden while still placating The Other Guy, and you can see them stumbling. Their numbers are dropping like a hot rock, yet they keep doing the same old, same old: Fox & Friends has a typical reaction to Bidens address: "Every time he has a chance to praise the previous administration, he not only doesnt praise, he kicks them in the groin." (Kilmeade mustve been angry all the time when Trump...

Katie Blackley / 90.5 WESA The advisory board of Pittsburgh’s Housing Opportunity Fund, or HOF, will soon have to be more selective about what projects they support, and when they do, they want to be sure those investments do the most good. Pittsburgh City Council approved the Housing Opportunity Fund in 2017, but it took a while to fund it, so the HOF has operated in an environment of relative abundance: in each calendar year it’s had roughly two years of funding to get out the door. ...

4:10 By most counts Pittsburgh is short some 20,000 units of affordable housing … but there’s not a lot of money to go around. 90.5 WESA’s Margaret J. Krauss reports even standout projects can run the risk of failure. By most counts Pittsburgh is short some 20,000 units of affordable housing, and the number continues to grow. Meeting the need, while always a challenge, seems even more daunting against the backdrop of vast housing insecurity revealed by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. T...

The UK government has announced the pending launch of the Advanced Research & Invention Agency (ARIA), to provide backing to innovation

McConnell added that the $145 million could be broken down into smaller portions: $5,000 grants could be allocated to 29,000 businesses throughout the commonwealth.  “House Republicans said when the governor first announced his desire to create a small business grant program from excess Worker’s Compensation Insurance Fund dollars three weeks ago that we would work with him on relief that accompanies long-term solutions that, among other things, ends the threat of these ridiculous shutdow...

Gov. Wolf was joined by Democratic House and Senate leaders in an effort to urge Republicans to pass $145M in small business aid.