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This raises a purple flag.

Last week's Pittsburgh news, today THIS WEEK: ✈️ UPMC’s corporate jet set 🚔 Cops boost downtown presence 🎨 Global graffiti artists converge 💸 Festival benefit fund unfunded 🔪 Community Kitchen leaving Hazelwood + more PGH news you may have missed pghindependent.com/post/last-week…

no Pittsburgh Independent newsletter tonight as I have been stringing for the NY Times since saturday’s assassination attempt and I am oh so tired. New content soon including a live set from The Sewerheads via Michitapes, a Abigail Hakas gallery profile, a NorthsideMusicFestival recap + lots more

The Sewerheads’ new single "marries americana with dissonance into dust bowl punk," writes Eric Stevens. We caught up with the band to talk about their new 7” and the video premiere for their THUNDERBIRD CAFÉ & MUSIC HALL live set during “May the Saints Go March in Sin." pghindependent.com/post/q-a-video…

As settlement negotiations continue, open records reveal a president judge wrote to Harrisburg to suggest a no-bid contract with a vendor “such as Adelphoi Village” to operate Shuman Juvenile Detention Center, one year before signing just such a contract. pghindependent.com/post/as-allegh…

This is the first in a series of reports for Pittsburgh Independent based on open records documents related to Shuman Juvenile Detention Center’s closure and subsequent reopening two years later under a private operator.

Judge Kim Berkeley Clark wrote to then Governor Wolf suggesting a sole-source contract with a vendor “such as Adelphoi Village” to operate Shuman Juvenile Detention Center, one year before signing just such a contract

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for additional context on the Housing Opportunity Fund, check out this comprehensive video that Abigail Hakas produced for us and NEXTpittsburgh just last week: instagram.com/reel/C95zKlZuZ…

“The filing is the most significant development in the strike since an administrative law judge ruled in January 2023 that the PG is breaking federal labor law in multiple ways, including not bargaining in good faith with the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh.”

As Trump returns to Butler today, here’s my gonzo, first-hand account of what it was like to cover July's assassination attempt for the NY Times. Pittsburgh Independent pghindependent.com/post/36-hours-…

This week's new #Pittsburgh music includes punishing grindcore, shapeshifting jazz, and an MC's new "audiobook" pghindependent.com/post/new-pitts…

new from Emma. pghindependent.com/post/whats-in-…

“We believe that keeping the best interests of our patients and members at the center of every decision we make is the best strategy for engendering the good will of those we serve." pghindependent.com/post/health-ex…

Headshots and biographical information of executives at Pittsburgh’s two major health insurers have been removed from their respective websites. pghindependent.com/post/health-ex…

Our Steve Mellon went caroling with the Pittsburgh Labor Choir and they wound up inside the home of PG publisher and co-owner John R. Block: unionprogress.com/2024/12/19/blo…

EXCLUSIVE: Did alleged UnitedHealthcare killer Luigi Mangione travel to Pittsburgh before his Dec. 9 arrest in Altoona? Local law enforcement isn’t so sure. pghindependent.com/post/exclusive…

Did alleged UnitedHealthcare killer Luigi Mangione travel to Pittsburgh before his Dec. 9 arrest in Altoona, Pa.? Local law enforcement isn’t so sure. pghindependent.com/post/exclusive…

🚨BIG news: Today the federal judges who granted us an injunction last month ordering Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to restore our illegally-taken health care DENIED the company’s desperate attempts to rehear the case, delay justice and cut its *current* workers out of the plan we’ve won back.

Nice to see the Pittsburgh Independent is back, with a story today on a rapper's excessive force lawsuit and ... "Bloomfield Beach" is also a summer song? pghindependent.com