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Pittsburgh Land Bank approves $10M spending plan for covid relief money

The Pittsburgh Land Bank’s board voted unanimously Friday to approve a plan to spend $10 million in American Rescue Plan funding — despite the fact Mayor Ed Gainey has said he wants to take $3 million of that money to create a food justice fund. The Land Bank’s plan calls ....

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Gainey, some Western Pa. officials seek to create local gun ordinances

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey and other regional leaders on Monday called for the right to pass gun reform laws on a local level if state officials in Harrisburg don’t enact such measures. Preemption laws prohibit cities like Pittsburgh from instituting gun regulations, but some officials are urging state leaders to ....

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Andrew Cuff: Progressives sacrifice Pittsburgh's prosperity for activist politics

The Republican National Committee recently narrowed down its list of cities to host the party’s 2024 national convention to two: Milwaukee and Nashville. But the original list from earlier this year included Pittsburgh. What scared the GOP off the Steel City? Considering its outsize role in U.S. politics, Pittsburgh would ....

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Colin McNickle: Kill the 'presence' tax and economize Pittsburgh's finances

Everything old suddenly appeared to be new again recently with a Pittsburgh City Council proposal to tax consumers of higher education and medical services. But although that measure now appears to be moot, the situation represents a golden opportunity for state legislators to amend the law that allows for such ....

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Editorial: Taxing students, patients instead of nonprofits is ludicrous

Pittsburgh might have been built by the big-profit industries of steel and coal and glass, but today its economy is driven by high-dollar nonprofits. There are the institutions of higher learning. The University of Pittsburgh is one of the largest in a state full of post-secondary schools. Carnegie Mellon University ....

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