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Interim editor @ThePUPNews. Soon I'll get back to work documenting Pittsburgh beer and other cool aspects of W. Pa./Ohio Valley life. It's all interim, right?
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Joined April 2011
The PA House passes a bill that would give strikers unemployment benefits; @PALaborIndustry rededicates The Pennsylvania Worker; role playing seeks to reduce the digital divide; and it's almost Friday, so @SteveRotstein brings the PUP football notebook: https://t.co/8vMXx2J5Ph
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Just a week and half short of the third anniversary of our unfair labor practice strike against @PittsburghPG, Allegheny County Council member at-large Bethany Hallam brought forward a proclamation acknowledging the fight of the union journalists holding down the picket line.
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As the @PGHGuild strikers near the 3-year mark, @stevemellon412 reports, they appreciate @bethanyhallam's @AllCnty_Council proclamation. @SteveRotstein previews "one of the best matchups of the regular season that will surely decide the Class 4A champion." https://t.co/8vMXx2J5Ph
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Our Ed Blazina reports: Pennsylvania has empathy for long-haul truckers, and 1,202 new parking spaces for them, too:
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Mike Carroll, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, knows the needs of truck drivers better than most because he holds a commercial driver’s license. So as PennDOT announced...
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One day longer: We're back with @stevemellon412's report on this weekend's concert for the people of the East Palestine area, and Ed Blazina on PA charging ahead with electric vehicles and on this week's roadwork that's eating up Oakland parking spots: https://t.co/8vMXx2IxZJ
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This week's rankings are up, with 📷 by our @Emily_M215. "Finally," writes our @SteveRotstein, "some moving and shaking" -- at least in Class 4A.
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The PUP sports staff unveils its latest "Best in Show" rankings following Week 6 of the high school football season.
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The scores, scares, stars, sights & sounds -- @SteveRotstein, @johnnysantaPUP and @Emily_M215 have it covered. Here's what happened on Friday night: https://t.co/8vMXx2J5Ph
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It is a perfect night for football and @ThePUPNews is in the house for a big one between @MontourFootball and @NewCastleAreaSD. Check in all evening for updates on this one.
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We love The Pittsburgh Media Hub. They've allowed this dog there:
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In a quest to boost a city's downtown, a foundation brought needed space, collaboration to hyperlocal news sites.
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Today's PUP has everything you need to pregame for football tonight; more things to do this fine weekend, from a park day to a house tour to this concert for the folks of the East Palestine area; plus driving routes you may want to avoid. Have a good one! https://t.co/8vMXx2J5Ph
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In today's PUP, read about @RiverlifePgh's "relentless" plans to “complete the loop” of parks and trails around the confluence of the Mon, Ohio and Allegheny rivers. Read about Riverview Park Day. And there's a Riverside reference in the football notebook: https://t.co/8vMXx2J5Ph
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From Wednesday's PUP, you can start to see Friday night. @SteveRotstein has the football Game of the Week and @angolds has an update on a Pennsylvania bill that would ban smoking at casinos and bus stops: https://t.co/8vMXx2IxZJ
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This morning's PUP leads with our Ed Blazina's report on the reopening of the Herron Street Bridge, and we happily to share @PointParkCMI's Next Generation Newsroom story and photos by @ErinYudt about rising vaccine exemptions across the region: https://t.co/8vMXx2J5Ph
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As our Ed Blazina's story this morning reported was still quite possible, the parties involved in the @PGHtransit bus stop location situation at The Waterfront have agreed on a solution. Here's the latest:
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Apparently as a result of bad publicity and the involvement of elected officials, the proposed closure of bus stops at two stores at The Waterfront complex has been averted. The Pittsburgh Regional...
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Our Ed Blazina starts out another week with a beyond-the-noise report on the @PGHtransit bus stops situation at The Waterfront, on which parties still are working to solve. He's also got his weekly heads-up on regional roadwork, including on Route 28: https://t.co/8vMXx2IxZJ
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Our Sunday edition is STRIKING, with stories on lifesaving Oakland traffic improvements, grants to @WarsWV to build “Courage in the Hollers," the Oct. 4 benefit concert for those hurt by the East Palestine derailment, and the Brighton Heights House Tour: https://t.co/8vMXx2J5Ph
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All the Western Pennsylvania college football: Our striking @johnnysantaPUP spent Saturday covering @calvulcans @SRURockFB @gcc_fb @WJFootball @SHU_FBALL @IUPfootball @DuqFB @Waynesburg_FTBL @Thiel_FB @Pitt_FB and more:
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A season ago, California University of Pennsylvania used a regular-season upset of Slippery Rock to catapult itself toward its first outright Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West Division...
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