Tom Davidson stories, Page 13

With President Trump banned from Twitter and Facebook, he’s lost a favored platform. But the ban also brings into focus questions about how social media giants should be policed and regulated. In the statement that accompanied Twitter’s ban of Trump on Friday, the company said the bloody assault on the...

Gov. Tom Wolf is supporting a $1 billion project to redevelop the former Civic Arena site in Pittsburgh’s Lower Hill District. On Monday, he encouraged the groups behind the project to seek more state funding. The Pittsburgh Penguins are leading the redevelopment of the 28-acre site that will be anchored...

The Allegheny County Sanitary Authority faces a challenge as it works to implement a $2 billion plan to upgrade its system by 2036 — and it has nothing to do with sewage. Alcosan’s sprawling complex at its Woods Run treatment plant in Pittsburgh’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood is squeezed between the Ohio...

Jim Brewster, the McKeesport Democrat who was a Pennsylvania senator until Tuesday, was working as usual for people who live in the 45th Senate District. “My staff is functioning with constituent issues,” Brewster said Thursday. But, he said, “I can’t do anything official.” On Tuesday, Republican leadership took control of...

The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank will be one of the big winners in a collaboration between the Pittsburgh Penguins and FNB Corp. For every goal the Pens score in the upcoming season, FNB will donate $200 to the Duquesne-based food bank, the team and FNB Corp. announced Thursday. The...

The next time it snows, Pittsburgh’s public works employees will be more prepared to keep the city’s streets clear, officials announced Monday. The White Christmas, or at least its aftermath, left some city residents seeing red after they failed to spot a plow or salt truck for two days in...

Pittsburgh will be going greener this year. The Steel City is one of four cities across the country selected to receive an assessment about how it can be reforested. A national startup, Cambium Carbon, is leading the effort. The company launched last year and has lines of products made from...

A private ambulance service based in Jefferson Hills that has stations in Clairton and Elizabeth has paid more than $35,000 in back wages to 12 employees after violating federal labor laws, the U.S. Department of Labor said Monday. Investigators with the department’s Wages and Hour Division found that 12 employees...

Pittsburgh police were investigating explosions Sunday night in the city’s Lawrenceville and Hill District neighborhoods. Police and firefighters went to the 3600 block of Penn Avenue in Lawrenceville in response to reports that an improvised explosive device was thrown from a moving vehicle just after 9 p.m. A parked vehicle...

Come Monday, it won’t just be a new year. It may be a new start for the beleaguered restaurant and bar industries that have borne the brunt of coronavirus restrictions in 2020. “It will be good to get people back to work,” Bill Fuller, corporate chef and president of Big...

Although a crowd of people isn’t expected — or allowed — to gather in Downtown Pittsburgh for New Year’s Eve celebrations, public safety officials issued their annual reminder Wednesday advising revelers to put safety first. “I know that we all want — and absolutely deserve — to celebrate New Year’s...

The founding leader of a Black activist organization that has lobbied for minorities in Pittsburgh for more than three decades says, as 2020 comes to a close, there is hope for substantive police reform in the city. “As we end the year, there is some positivity in the air with...

A long-planned development in Pittsburgh’s Lower Hill District, a commercial development in Larimer and an industrial development project in Fairywood are among projects that were awarded $7.5 million in state grants, the city announced Tuesday. Mayor Bill Peduto called the awards “critical investments” by Gov. Tom Wolf and the city’s...

Pittsburgh police Chief Scott Schubert has walked a beat in about 30 of the city’s 90 neighborhoods in a quest to hear from the people about how they feel he’s doing the job. When he gets to all 90, he plans to start over because he wants to know what...

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said he is “profoundly disappointed” that funding for cities and states was left out of the $900 billion pandemic relief package Congress passed Monday night. “With the exclusion of cities from this stimulus package, our first responders and front-line essential workers who have worked tirelessly during...

A plan to build eight new affordable homes in Pittsburgh’s Polish Hill neighborhood received a $750,000 boost in a grant from a government-sponsored bank. The City of Bridges Community Land Trust was awarded the money from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh’s affordable housing program. Each federal home loan...

Pittsburgh will spend $50,000 to provide cultural competency training under a proposal Mayor Bill Peduto’s office introduced Monday. The city and Peduto’s Office of Equity plan to partner with Pittsburgh-based Cultural Humility and Equity Collaborative to create a program for the city’s Department of Public Safety. The idea is to...

Pittsburgh’s efforts to purchase all of its energy from renewable resources using the Western Pennsylvania Energy Consortium have netted the city top honors among large cities in the 2020 Climate Protection Awards presented Friday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Mayor Bill Peduto was called a visionary by San Jose...

Giant Eagle is offering up its staff of pharmacists to help distribute the initial doses of the covid-19 vaccine, the O’Hara-based chain said Friday. The company assisted in administering the vaccine to long-term care workers Thursday and Friday in Morgantown, W.Va., its Vice President of Risk and Chief Compliance Officer...

Dozens of Pittsburgh residents who have provided Pittsburgh City Council with comments on the 2021 budget have lamented when the meetings are generally scheduled – on weekday mornings. They’ve said many more people would offer input on the budget and what programs people would like to see the city prioritize...