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Core of Occupy Pittsburgh forces ignores eviction
TribuneReview News
Feb 07Despite a judge's order ending their nearly four-month "occupation" of a Downtown park, protesters on Monday declared their demonstration a success because they helped start a conversation about what they consider corporate excess. »
Downtown parking garage to close indefinitely
TribuneReview News
Feb 07A Downtown parking garage that will close on Wednesday will remain that way until further notice. »
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Library working on tax logistics
Post-Gazette.com Neighborhoods
Feb 06The city of Pittsburgh will collect a new tax for the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh beginning this year, but how much the latter has to pay for that service is a matter of discussion. City and library officials will meet today to iron out cost-sharing... »
2Do: Week of Feb. 5
Post-Gazette.com Music
Feb 05A kickoff reception for the exhibit "A City of Rhythm: A Tribute to African American Music in Pittsburgh" will be held in the lobby of the City-County Building, Downtown, at 6 p.m. The reception, which is free and open to the public, will include refre... »
Buying Here: Downtown
Post-Gazette.com Home & Garden
Feb 04How would you like to live in one of Downtown's most photographed buildings? The Bruno Building at 347 Liberty Ave., better known as the one with the big statues out front, has appeared in newspapers, magazines, ads and countless tourists' pictures. »
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Union Groups Recommend $2 Billion In Savings.
The Morning Call Capitol Ideas
Feb 02A Coalition Of Organized Labor Groups ... ... has recommended what it says are cost-savings in state government that would negate program cuts to public education and other state services. Gov. Tom Corbett makes his second budget address to a... »
Tuesday Morning Coffee: House Speaker Smith Asks Federal Judge To Declare Legislative Boundaries Unconstitutional.
BlogCapitol Ideas
Jan 31Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. State House Speaker Sam Smith has filed suit against Secretary of State Carol Aichele in U.S. District Court asking for a declaratory judgment that the legislative boundaries that the Supreme Court declared in effe... »
Senator Pat Browne Denies Lobbyist Wife Is Conflict of Interest
Lehigh Valley Ramblings
Jan 31In 2009, Governor Ed Rendell was up against a 101-day long budget stalemate, the longest in state history. The price for Senator Pat Browne's cooperation? Hockey. He inserted what he called a "funding mechanism" in the Fiscal Code, and the Guv' signed ... »
Random n’at
That's Church
Jan 301. My Texan sister Tina Fey, as I call her because she has a wicked sense of humor and used to wear Tina Fey-like glasses until she went and got Lasik like the rich bitch she is (she will protest that in the comments, but I know the truth and that is t... »
North Side Redevelopment Well On Its Way
Out And About In The 'Burgh
Jan 29North Side's Garden TheaterThroughout the 1990s, one building after another on the Federal Street and North Avenue corridors of the Central Northside (Mexican War Streets) went dark because of the Garden Theater's then-status as a porn movie house. No... »