Allegheny County COVID-19 information as of July 30
Number of new positive cases in Allegheny County: 247 (two-day total) Number of today's new coronavirus deaths in Allegheny County: 0...
Creating a vegan, plant-based beauty routine can be hard — and expensive. Finding deodorants, make-up, and body care in big box stores can prove challenging, but there are smaller boutiques and salons in Pittsburgh that hand-make their own vegan products...
Pennsylvania has more than 300,000 acres of state parks where people can hike, picnic, camp, fish, hunt, and more, but a new study from Outdoorsy shows the Keystone State is one of the lowest performers in terms of how much outdoor recreation contributes to the state's economy. According to the study, outdoor recreation contributes 1.6% of Pennsylvania’s annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP), compared to 2.2% nationally...
After voting to join The United Steelworkers union in 2019, tech workers at a Google contractor in Bakery Square ratified their first ever contract with HCL America, Inc. The three-year contract protects about 65 Pittsburgh-based workers. HCL is an independent contractor company that hires tech workers who complete work for Google, who has offices in Pittsburgh's Larimer neighborhood...
On July 28, the CEO of health care monolith UPMC, Jeffrey Romoff, announced he is retiring and will spend the next few months helping UPMC transition its leadership. Romoff, who is 75, said in a press release that he is “proud to have led UPMC during a time of exceptional growth” and that the company is “now in a well-earned period of stability and success, having overcome challenges and grown into a fully integrated health care system.”
Thu., July 29
Inside Out: Hot Mass + Friends
Carnegie Museum of Art
4-8 p.m. This week's first Inside Out event will feature Hot Mass, the popping after-hours party now brought to you during the daytime...
Poor conditions regarding air quality in Pittsburgh like pollution from out-of-state wildfires, fireworks, and record-breaking exceedances of certain gases are pushing 2021 to be the worst years in recent memory. Air quality advocates at Group Against Smog and Pollution reported on July 27 that H2S concentrations were so “sky-high” that by mid morning, exceedances of the state’s 24-hour average standard were guaranteed...
Pittsburgh music act Some Faith recently released “Prey To My Grief,” a sonic, haunting track. Some Faith, composed of Indigo Baloch on vocals and Brian Sikes as producer, stepped onto the music scene in 2020 with their song “The Pain Has A Purpose.” They release an EP in October 2020, and “Prey To My Grief” continues the band's trend of spooky pop highlighted by intense, emotional lyrics...
Video Archive Lynn is talking with Tribune-Review writer Paula Reed Ward about a Pittsburgh-area woman, Kimberly Andrews, who was assaulted at the Allegheny County Jail, while handcuffed, and was shoved from behind by an officer into an elevator and then tasered...
Liz Conway, the President of goodblend, Pennsylvania, a cannabis growing, processing and retail company, is a dynamic woman with a mission to bring cannabis wellness to Pennsylvania. We sat down to ask her what inspired her to join a cannabis company, what her vision is for goodblend, and how goodblend is poised to bring new jobs to the area...
Last year, hundreds of nurses at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh’s Bloomfield neighborhood formed a labor union in hopes of pressuring the hospital into delivering investments for the recruitment and retention of nurses. This push followed in the steps of nursing unions across the state in asking for better staffing ratios and working conditions for nurses, who have borne the brunt of work, stress, and risk during the COVID-19 pandemic...
President Joe Biden pitched his infrastructure plan in Pittsburgh earlier this spring, but since then, the proposal has hit some roadblocks in Congress. Some Congressional leaders are insisting on keeping the infrastructure package a bipartisan affair, but one area where Democrats and Republicans can’t agree is the percentage of funding given to roads and bridges versus given to public transportation...
Alexandra Loutsion has secured her reputation as a rising opera star. She's performed on stages across North America and represented the United States as a quarterfinalist in the Francisco Viñas Competition in Barcelona, Spain...
Video Archive "It's almost impossible to watch it and to realize you have an entire political party in this country, that ten's of millions of our countries men and women vote for with regularity, that is attempting to depict this extraordinary murderous violence as nothing special."
Despite being related, Christine and Brigette Bethea are very different. Christine has worked in creative fields, including writing for the fashion, radio, and television industries, before embarking on a multimedia arts career in the 1980s...
LaReese Crawford always knew she wanted a salon of her own one day. While she was working in other boutiques around town, she would admire the women owners who had started their own businesses...
Some might assume that cuisine from South America is too exotic or adventurous for Pittsburgh palates, but Pabellón, a popular Venezuelan restaurant in Banksville, shows just how comforting and approachable the food can be. Fried yucca are similar to Pittsburgh’s beloved french fries, arepa cakes are like cornbread, and the pabellón criollo should be easily embraced by yinzers...
