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Democrats have a rural problem in Southwestern Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional district
By Ryan Deto
Tags: Analysis, Politics, PolitiCrap, Keith Rothfus, Tom Prigg, Aaron Anthony, Beth Tarasi, Allegheny County, Cambrian County, Somerset County, Johnstown Tribune-Democrat, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Indivisible Johnstown, PA 12 Progressives, Erin McClelland, Mary Lou Davis, Michelle Raab, Donald Trump, PolitiCrap
City Paper's live coverage of Donald Trump's visit to Pittsburgh
By City Paper Staff Reports
Tags: News, 2016 Election, Donald Trump, Pittsburgh, protest, Video
The Shit List: Our guide to 10 state legislators from the Pittsburgh area who need to clean up their act
We considered the politicians’ support of homophobic, xenophobic, anti-labor and environmentally-unfriendly legislation
Tags: News, Pennsylvania, Mike Turzai, Daryl Metcalfe, Elder Vogel, Dom Costa, Harry Readshaw
Live coverage of the Local Progress and the People's Convention in Pittsburgh
Nearly 1,000 grassroots activists are in Pittsburgh for the Center for Public Democracy's People's Convention and Local Progress national meeting.
By Rebecca Addison, Ryan Deto and Ashley Murray
Tags: News, Community Action, Pittsburgh, news, Center for Popular Democracy, People's Convention, Local Progress, Still We Rise, Video
Pittsburgh 350 climate activists march ahead of Paris talks
By Aaron Warnick
Tags: Environment, Pittsburgh 350, Peter Wray, Dan Gilman, Climate Action Day, Mayor Bill Peduto, Paris climate talks, UN Climate Summit, Shenango Coke Works, Video
Pittsburgh Artists Against Fracking sounds an alarm
Exhibit includes more than 100 works by 80-some artists
By Robert Raczka
Tags: Art Reviews + Features
Cloudy Future
Living in the shadow of a longtime polluter
By Chris Potter
Tags: News, Last Word
In a Jam
UPMC controversy is a defining issue for Peduto, and Pittsburgh
Tags: Opinion, Potter's Field
Gas Explosion
State Supreme Court ruling lights up gas-drilling backers
Proposal to drill beneath Deer Lakes Park raises questions of safety, government procedure
"We need a lot more research into the long-term health risks before we start drilling under our public parks."
By Charlie Deitch
Tags: News
Tan Lac Vien
A new restaurant in Squirrel Hill expands the local Vietnamese offerings
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
Tags: Dining Reviews, Slideshow
Changing Climate-Change Climate?
The big question is how tightly Obama will clamp down on the energy industry.
By Bill O'Driscoll
Community Blues
UPMC finally feels our pain
Pittsburghers Headed to D.C. for Climate Rally
Tags: Environment, climate change, Forward on Climate Rally, Allegheny Sierra Club, 350.org, Keystone XL pipeline
Chasing Ice
The film is a Giant Blinking Light that Earth's glaciers are melting and disappearing at an astonishing pace
By Al Hoff
By Mars Johnson
Both the Evergreen Cafe owner and his adversaries are calling authorities over the new loading zone
By Matt Petras
Confessions of a non-monogamous, compulsively caregiving eldest daughter
By Jessie Sage
Ed Piskor exhibition postponed over sexual misconduct allegations
Is Pittsburgh headed for a Catholic renaissance?
By Colin Williams