Bob Bauder stories, Page 20

The Allegheny County Democratic Committee has a new interim executive director. Elizabeth Casertano, 25, of Shaler, will become the third person over the past year to head the organization. She replaces Steve Kochanowski who stepped down to devote more time to campaign work. Mark Salvas of Plum abruptly resigned last...

Pittsburgh on Wednesday lifted traffic restrictions on Grant Street, Downtown, following the completion of a brick pavement restoration project that began in May. The city on May 6 limited traffic to one lane in each direction between Seventh Street and Liberty Avenue for replacement of brick pavers and repairs to...

Pittsburgh has hired security guards and assigned employees to work evening shifts at a maintenance facility in Squirrel Hill that was burglarized several weeks ago on three separate occasions, a city official said. Department of Public Works Director Mike Gable said about $10,000 worth of equipment, including lawn mowers, weed...

Pittsburgh would pay a West End woman $52,500 to settle a lawsuit she filed in 2014 contending an EMS official struck her with a city vehicle as she was crossing a street in Brighton Heights. Jennifer Batten, 36, of Crafton Heights said in a complaint that she was in a...

Pittsburgh is spending within its 2019 budget projection and is headed for a larger than anticipated surplus at year’s end, the city controller said Monday. Controller Michael Lamb, who released his Popular Annual Financial Report for 2018, said 2019 revenues from all tax sources are exceeding projections and departments, with...

The Heinz Endowments will offer grants ranging from $1,000 to $150,000 to artists who create work that reflects social challenges and incidents of injustice in the Pittsburgh region. The organization encourages projects that are initiated by younger people or center on youth voices. Applications are now being accepted for the...

Pittsburgh City Council unanimously opposed an 11-hour amendment to Pennsylvania budget that would temporarily block local governments from banning or taxing single-use plastic bags, wrappers and Styrofoam. The amendment tacked on to the state fiscal code late Wednesday by Republicans has passed the House and Senate and Gov. Tom Wolf...

Pittsburgh popped up during Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate when one of the candidates — a buddy of Mayor Bill Peduto’s — suggested the city would be the perfect spot for a summit on climate change. Responding to a question about his stance on climate change, Pete Buttigieg, the mayor...

Pittsburgh City Council on Wednesday balked at paying $45,000 in legal fees for the city’s Ethics Hearing Board to, among other things, enforce a campaign finance disclosure ordinance that at least one council member disagrees with. Five members, including Councilwoman Darlene Harris of Spring Hill, abstained on a vote authorizing...

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto plans to set aside $500,000 in 2020 and allocate more money in future years to buy more recycling bins for city residents. Recycling has been mandatory in Pittsburgh for 28 years, and the city is transitioning from the blue bags that have been distributed for storing...

An Indianapolis-based developer is planning a $57 million apartment complex on one of the last remaining vacant parcels in the SouthSide Works, according to the Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority. TWG Development in May closed on the $1 million purchase of a 2.3-acre lot at Sidney and Sarah Streets from the...

Pittsburgh plans to outlaw discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression. City officials Tuesday observed the 50th anniversary of riots in New York City that touched off the LGBT movement in America by proposing legislation that would update an existing non-discrimination ordinance to include gender identity and expression as...

Aaron Morris’ first car was a 1987 Pontiac Firebird that he started driving in high school. Now he’s using it to map the congested parking situation in Pittsburgh’s Strip District. Morris and Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto on Monday announced that the city will use parking data supplied by Allvision, a...

Carnegie Mellon University is teaming with a Pittsburgh self-driving vehicle company to create a research center geared toward handling challenging road conditions, including changing weather patterns and construction zones. Argo AI, headquartered in the city’s Strip District, is investing $15 million over five years to establish and fund the Carnegie...

The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police had no written policy for drinking on the job by undercover detectives, but immediately enacted guidelines following a brawl in a South Side bar between officers and members of the Pagans motorcycle gang, a city official said Monday. Public Safety Director Wendell Hissrich said an...

Elmo from “Sesame Street” dropped by the Carnegie Science Center Friday to the delight of kids from the Training Wheels Child Care Center. “Elmo,” they shouted in unison when Angelica Miller, one of the science center’s early childhood educators, introduced the popular puppet to children from the Manchester preschool. Elmo...

Margaret Watson has been waiting 60 years to see her Pittsburgh Hill District neighborhood reconnected to the Downtown business district. She won’t have to wait much longer. Elected officials and dignitaries gathered in the Hill District on Friday afternoon for a ceremonial groundbreaking that will kick off construction of the...

Fire sirens in Pittsburgh and more than 70 cities across the United States sounded for 30 seconds and then went silent for 30 seconds at 11:45 a.m. Friday in recognition of Flag Day. The nationwide nod to the American flag was organized by the Pittsburgh-based National Flag Foundation. At the...

It makes a lot of horse sense for Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and North Side Councilwoman Darlene Harris to cooperate. And with Harris poised to ride off into the sunset of her time on council, it appears the two, longtime political foes appear to be doing just that. Peduto and...

The last municipal building still standing from the days when Pittsburgh’s North Side was its own separate city is destined to become an apartment building. North Side-based Go Realty is restoring the old Allegheny City Stables — vacant for more than a decade. The estimated project cost is $7.5 million...

Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Darlene Harris said Tuesday she’s crafting legislation that would regulate, but not ban, exotic animals and reptiles — including alligators — in the city. Harris of Spring Hill said the three alligators found running loose in Pittsburgh since May 18 highlights the need for such regulation. She...

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto remembered his grandfather taking him as a child to the Produce Terminal in the Strip District, where they would purchase grapes to make “bad” wine. The mayor should be able to buy some good wine at the renovated terminal building along Smallman Street when the project...