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Pittsburgh Regional Transit to install 80+ new ticketing machines at T stations
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- There will soon be a new way to pay to ride the light rail system with the help of the ticketing company Flowbird.Pittsburgh Regional Transit has announced they'll be installing more than 80 state-of-the-art ticket vending machines at stations in the city.The machines are designed to help streamline the payment process by offering easier options for buying single tickets and re-loading your card.The new machines should be up and running in 2025.
Death by Violets: PGH Festival Opera Presents Adriana Lecouvreur
Pittsburgh Festival Opera (PFO) is thrilled to present Adriana Lecouvreur on September 8 at the newly renovated Carnegie Music Hall. Inspired by the scandalous life of French actress Adrienne Leouvreur, this concert opera premieres with a full orchestra, renowned opera stars, and Pittsburgh Festival Opera Artistic Director and vocal legend Marianne Cornetti at the helm.
Clyburn: Project 2025…Jim Crow 2.0
(BlackPressUSA)—In two years, we will celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday. Our great country has survived a Civil War, two world wars, a Cold War, and a plethora of legislative and judicial fits and starts in our pursuit of a “more perfect Union.” We have endured some devastating Supreme Court decisions, Dred Scott, The Slaughterhouse Cases, and Plessey v Ferguson, to name just a few. We have survived some oppressive presidencies, Andrew Johnson, Rutherford Hayes, and Woodrow Wilson, tantamount among them. Johnson attempted to nullify the impact of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Hayes ended Reconstruction. Wilson’s policies towards federal civil service employment seem to be the foundation upon which a significant portion of Trump’s 2025 Project is built.
Pittsburgh Public Schools prepare to add 2 students to school board
PITTSBURGH — It’s a move that some believe will open a window for leaders to better understand students. Others think it will level the playing field and allow students to have a say in the direction of Pittsburgh Public Schools. For the first time, two students will be...
Portfolio of Energy-Curable Coatings Launched
The PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) Duranext portfolio of electron-beam (EB) and UV curable backers, primers, basecoats and clearcoats offer energy efficiency and high speed of energy curing for metal coil coaters. The coatings use an electron beam or UV energy to convert a liquid coating into a fully cured solid finish...
National Roller Coaster Day celebrated at Kennywood
WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. — Friday was National Roller Coaster Day, and there are some thrilling ones right in our backyard. Phantom's Revenge, Thunderbolt, Racer and Jack Rabbit are favorites among roller coaster fans at Kennywood. Pittsburgh's Action News 4 took a trip to the amusement park in West Mifflin...
Washington County business owner unsure of future after car crashes into budling
CHARLEROI, Pa. (KDKA) -- In an already-blighted community, one local business is doing everything to keep it from turning into another empty building.Moke's Martial Arts is off Fallowfield Avenue in Charleroi and has been open since 2018."You drive through Charleroi, you don't see much anymore. We lost the Coyle Theater. We lost the stadium, and then you get to this point, and you see the Moke's sign, and it's just something so unique that, you know, we want to keep that sign where it is," Brad Podroskey said, an instructor at Moke's Martial Arts.On Aug. 4, a car crashed into...
DJ and Food Truck Festival at Bradys Run Park to benefit Beaver County Humane Society
BRIGHTON TWP. ― The first DJ and Food Truck Festival will take place Aug. 31 at Bradys Run Park to benefit the Beaver County Humane Society. "We have a food truck contest − Best Bite in Beaver County," spokeswoman Erin Gagric said. ...
Pittsburgh Mayor Gainey writes praises of director who resigned after signing petition, but walks away from talking with reporters
PITTSBURGH — Mayor Ed Gainey released a written statement Thursday praising his former communications director, Maria Montano, who resigned after she had signed a controversial referendum petition seeking a city boycott of Israel and those who do business in or with Israel until the war in Gaza ends. Local...
Five Guys, Jersey Mike's Subs are nearing opening dates in Somerset
SOMERSET ― The second of three new restaurants coming to the borough is expected to open at the end of August. Five Guys, a hamburger and fries shop based in Washington, D.C., plans to open its doors on Aug. 30 at 1180 N. Center Ave. in Somerset, in front of Georgian Place, according...
2-Time Pro Bowl QB Suggested as Potential 2025 Target for Steelers
Quarterback Geno Smith replaced Russell Wilson with the Seattle Seahawks. It’s possible the same thing could happen with the Pittsburgh Steelers. At least Steelers Now’s Derrick Bell implied that potential exists in a tweet on X (formerly Twitter). “Will history repeat itself?” Bell asked as a caption to...
One coal town seeks to transition after its power plant closes
Jeremiah Baltzer liked his job as a union carpenter at the Homer City Generating Station, about an hour east of Pittsburgh. The job wasn’t always easy, he said. “You’re on call pretty much 24 hours a day,” he said. “You may not be told that, but that’s kind of how you have to do it in order to stick around.”
SVC senior legal counsel Bruce Antkowiak interviewed for documentary series ‘The Godfather of Fentanyl’
LATROBE, PA – Bruce Antkowiak, J.D., law professor and senior legal counsel to Saint Vincent College and Saint Vincent Archabbey, appears as an interviewee in “The Godfather of Fentanyl,” a true-crime documentary streaming on Fox Nation. “The Godfather of Fentanyl” tells the story of George Erik Marquardt,...
Vance emphasizes his military experience and Trump's work for veterans as he campaigns in Pennsylvania
LOWER BURRELL, Pa. — To attendees gathered at VFW Post 92 in Lower Burrell, Westmoreland County on Thursday, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance lauded former President Donald Trump for putting “in place real policies that really benefit the veterans who served in our military.”. As he opened...
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