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Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. State Rep. Ed Gainey, who’s running for Pittsburgh mayor in May’s Democratic primary, released an economic policy agenda that would renew Pittsburgh’s legal challenge to UPMC’s nonprofit status in an attempt to collect more city and school district taxes. “City investments and strong unions gave previous generations of Pittsburghers an opportunity to succeed, but today we’re failing to use the t...

AP A New York City police officer shows the required length of a beard for Muslim men. Police departments nationwide are relaxing grooming standards to attract a wider pool of officers.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Despite a last-ditch plea from the leader of the city’s Commission on Human Relations, Pittsburgh City Council members Tuesday approved a revision to a law protecting city residents from discrimination because of their hairstyles. The revision removes language that extends protection to ...

Steven Adams | Tribune-Review   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Pittsburgh City Council members are moving forward with legislation to prevent evictions in the city during the covid-19 pandemic. At its committee hearing on Wednesday, council will further discuss the ordinance that puts into place a moratorium on evictions as long as the city’s pandemic emergency is in place. It was introduced by Councilwoman Deb Gross, who drafted the legislation with help from several other city officials. The ordinanc...

Magic Circle: Meet the Tayside and Fife magicians who still have a few tricks up their sleeve © Supplied by Kevin Quantum As magicians celebrate the 100th anniversary of the famous ‘sawing people in half’ trick, Michael Alexander discovers that magic is alive and well in Tayside and Fife with a few tricks left up its sleeve yet. One hundred years ago last month, English magician Percy Thomas Tibbles literally and laboriously “sawed” through a sealed wooden box that contained a woman. It was a sensation that has since become one of the world’s best known illusions, performed with ...

Tom Davidson | Tribune-Review Tom Davidson | Tribune-Review Tom Davidson | Tribune-Review Tom Davidson | Tribune-Review Tom Davidson | Tribune-Review   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Pittsburgh’s Mellon Park is nearing designation as a historic site by city officials, with no one opposed to it. Instead, people have been wondering why the 33-acre park in the city’s Point Breeze neighborhood hadn’t achieved the designation long ago. “People were surprised it had no protections whatsoever,” sa...