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AP   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. About $17 million in street improvements, $10 million to reduce traffic congestion and $4.5 million to repair landslides are among the projects that will be funded with about $46.6 million in bonds Pittsburgh is floating this week. The total amount being borrowed is about $55.3 million, which includes financing costs, the city said. The city used the New York and Oakland, Calif.-based firm Siebert Williams Shank & Co. to shepherd the transaction. The company is minorit...

Shares From now until April 13, vegan brand Beyond Meat and YouTube star Liza Koshy are hosting the Beyond Lunch Sustainability Challenge, a contest that challenges teachers and their students to submit ideas on how to make their schools’ lunchrooms more sustainable. The contest aims to provide an outlet for educators and students to apply the knowledge they gained—such as the connection between animal agriculture and the climate crisis—from Beyond Meat’s first sustainability course launched with digital education platform EVERFI last fall.  “I’m excited to partner with Beyond Me...

Pittsburgh City Council moved forward Tuesday with a temporary ban on evictions during the emergency created by the coronavirus pandemic. The legislation, spearheaded by Councilwoman Deb Gross, with support from Mayor Bill Peduto’s administration, and several city activists, was unanimously approved, but only after extensive discussion among council members. They

Tribune-Review   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Old social media posts by Pittsburgh mayoral candidate Tony Moreno that support former President Donald Trump were condemned by the city’s Democratic Committee chairman less than a week before the party announces its slate of endorsed candidates. Moreno, 51, a retired city police officer from Brighton Heights, is one of two candidates seeking the committee’s endorsement, which will be announced Sunday. The other is state Rep. Ed Gainey, 51, of Lincoln-L...

Tribune-Review   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. For more than a century, many of Pittsburgh’s office buildings in the Golden Triangle have been kept warm using steam heat generated at a North Shore factory that is conveyed Downtown. But the Pittsburgh Allegheny County Thermal (PACT) system is old, failing and beyond repair, Mayor Bill Peduto said last year. A fix is in the works through an agreement the city inked last week with Clearway Community Energy, another North Side-based provider that’s a su...