Ben Schmitt (@bencschmitt)

Large tree down in Biddle Ave in Wilkinsburg

14.03.2026 14:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Budget unbalance: How can different mayors be $40M apart on Pittsburgh’s spending plan? Pittsburgh’s new mayor says the 2026 budget he inherited might have a $40 million hole that must be plugged. The architect of the previous administration maintains it doesn’t. Who’s ...

Pretty valid question
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13.03.2026 23:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

SEA board blasts Fenway Sports Group’s ‘profiteering’ amid Pittsburgh Penguins sale The $1.7 billion sale of the Pittsburgh Penguins to the Hoffmann Family of Companies was approved Thursday by the Sports & Exhibition Authority Board — but not before board members called out fo...

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12.03.2026 20:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New development envisioned for Westinghouse site in Churchill The former Westinghouse Research and Technology Park in Churchill borough could soon become a walkable mixed-use development. Commonwealth Commercial Real Estate presented an early rendering of the pr...

Do we need this, at this point?
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11.03.2026 15:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe I am getting older, but this time change is kicking my behind this week

10.03.2026 15:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Former Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Darlene Harris dies Former Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Darlene Harris has died. “Darlene led a life of service to her community as an advocate, school board director and City Council member that spanned over 40 ye...

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06.03.2026 19:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Parkway East to close for 25 days during bridge replacement project PennDOT announced a 25-day closure of Parkway East while crews work to complete the $95 million Commercial Street Bridge Replacement project. All Parkway traffic between the Wilkinsburg exit (78B) and...

Maybe I should leave town for all of July
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05.03.2026 21:08 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

As 2026 NFL Draft nears, secrecy dominates vendor selection Davis Ellis hoped to head to Downtown Pittsburgh and cook soul food for the throngs of football fans expected to jam the city for the 2026 NFL Draft. He won’t get the chance. The NFL denied his ...

As 2026 NFL Draft nears, secrecy dominates vendor selection
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05.03.2026 00:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Redding up the river: New law helps removal of abandoned boats before NFL Draft As crews build out the North Shore for the NFL Draft that opens in 50 days, another project is now underway: clearing abandoned boats from the rivers. Michael Hills, president of the Pittsburgh Safe B...

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04.03.2026 22:12 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Hateful broadcasts disrupt Pittsburgh public safety radio for 3rd day For the third consecutive day, an unknown person Wednesday broadcast racist and obscene messages over a public-safety radio channel in Pittsburgh with seeming impunity. The foul comments follow earlie...

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04.03.2026 19:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

West Deer residents appeal to Commonwealth Court in fight over fracking wells A case argued Tuesday before Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court could test the reach of local efforts to challenge natural gas fracking. Concerned Residents of West Deer (CROWD), a local advocacy group, has raised concerns for years about the Leto fracking well, which is located near the heart of the West Deer

West Deer residents appeal to Commonwealth Court in fight over fracking wells

03.03.2026 22:02 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Police, FCC investigate threats against O’Connor made over public safety radio Federal officials and Allegheny County law enforcement are investigating “hateful and threatening messages,” some of which included antisemitic vitriol against Pittsburgh’s mayor, that were broadcast on two days this week over public safety radio. The comments, made Monday and Tuesday by what the county said was an unauthorized user, were

Police, FCC investigate threats against O'Connor made over public safety radio

04.03.2026 01:22 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Burghers Brewing and Murrysville pizzeria expand on South Side The former site of Sly Fox Brewing’s South Side pub won’t sit vacant for long. Burghers Brewing Co. announced in a Facebook post on Monday it will partner with Murrysville pizzeria A Slice...

Burghers Brewing and Murrysville pizzeria expand on South Side
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04.03.2026 01:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

South Side bar speaks out following images of rat under beer tap A South Side bar says it has conducted a full investigation with the Allegheny County Health Department and brought in additional pest control services after a rat was found on its beer taps. In a sta...

Rats
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03.03.2026 14:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reaction to U.S., Israeli attacks on Iran comes from the region, expatriates and congressmen A Jewish social worker who called Pittsburgh home for 32 years spent most of Saturday sheltered behind a steel door and reinforced-concrete walls waiting for Iranian missiles to strike. Carri Golden, who raised her two children in the city’s Greenfield neighborhood before emigrating to Israel during the pandemic, heard the

Reaction to U.S., Israeli attacks on Iran comes from the region, expatriates and congressmen

01.03.2026 01:20 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Reaction to U.S., Israeli attacks on Iran comes from the region, expatriates and congressmen A Jewish social worker who called Pittsburgh home for 32 years spent most of Saturday sheltered behind a steel door and reinforced-concrete walls waiting for Iranian missiles to strike. Carri Golden, ...

Reaction to U.S., Israeli attacks on Iran comes from the region, expatriates and congressmen
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01.03.2026 00:33 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

From weave poles to world stage: Agility dogs vie in Latrobe for European Open As a wily border collie named Rose zipped above a fake-grass-covered ring in Latrobe on Saturday, the 6-year-old agility competitor appeared to rarely touch the ground as she glided through an obstacl...

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28.02.2026 22:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Review: The Clarks are still rocking the stage after 4 decades This year, The Clarks celebrate 40 years as a band — and they’re still selling out shows, as with their Friday night engagement at The Oaks Theater in Oakmont. For a certain strand of Sout...

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28.02.2026 14:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘It feels amazing’: Immigrants become U.S. citizens in Pittsburgh naturalization ceremony ”I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have hereto...

Friday’s ceremony provided a joyous contrast to the fear, unease and distrust being experienced among immigrants across the country as a result of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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27.02.2026 21:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘It feels amazing’: Immigrants become U.S. citizens in Pittsburgh naturalization ceremony ”I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have hereto...

They came from 18 nations across Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
Their backgrounds, cultures and languages were diverse.
But on Friday they all swore the same oath of allegiance to the U.S. inside the federal courthouse in Pittsburgh.

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27.02.2026 20:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0