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Oct 14 2020

📹 YouTuber Dean Bog turns his injury into art

Plus, Braddock puts on the red light.

Welcome to Wednesday. 

If you’re a parent, student or teacher, you probably know how challenging remote learning or hybrid learning has been this year.

Millions of students nationwide are learning from home or partly from home during this pandemic, and there are real worries about what could amount to a “lost year” for some American students.

But it doesn’t have to be. And that’s where we come in.

Tonight we’re hosting ou
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Oct 13 2020

🗳 The procrastinator’s guide to the election

Plus, we’ll see you tomorrow night.

Welcome to Tuesday. 

We start today’s newsletter with two big announcements. First, our procrastinator’s guide to Pittsburgh’s 2020 election is here (keep scrolling for that). And second, we’re hosting a free virtual panel at 6 p.m. tomorrow called “Education in the age of COVID.” We’ve assembled an all-star group of educators to answer your questions and help parents, students, and teachers get the most out of this unusual school year.
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Oct 09 2020

🕳 Thanks for the meme-ories


Welcome to Friday — and the end of a brief-but-spectacular era in Pittsburgh’s online history.

Downtown’s sinkhole bus is long gone, and that sunken section of 10th Street has now officially reopened a year after it first cratered. We’re not totally ready to move on — and read more



Oct 08 2020

🙄 Good morning to everyone except Jake Tapper

Plus, what’s next for ‘The O’?

Welcome to Thursday. 

Tonight, some of Pittsburgh’s best journalists will gather for a virtual conversation about our summer of protest and the relationship between press, protesters, police, and the public. The event starts at 7 p.m. You can register here.

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Oct 07 2020

📺 These famous yinzers want you to vote

Plus, fans are returning to Heinz Field.

Welcome to Wednesday — and American Archives Month.

CMOA is marking the occasion with a throwback to this exhibit from its Teenie Harris archive. And we’re marking the occasion by resharing a story we did on the Herculean efforts of local archivists who are working to catalogue this read more



Oct 06 2020

🐝 Why good samaritans swarmed the Bee Lady

Plus, who wants Pat Toomey’s job?

Welcome to Tuesday. It’s good to be back.

Election Day is exactly four weeks away. We’ve been hard at work on our procrastinator’s guide to Pittsburgh’s 2020 general election, and we’re giving Incline Insiders a sneak peek today. More on that below.

Here’s what else we have on deck: A look at who *might* want Pat Toomey’s job, a historic v
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Oct 02 2020

🍽 What’s opening and what’s closing this month

Plus, your weekend plans.

Welcome to Friday and the second day of October. 

Loyal readers like you know that the beginning of a new month means a new installment of our food-and-drink series. And to reach our goal of sharing more original reporting with you right here in this newsletter, we’ve got a lot of food news for you to dig into today.

Also on tap: A weekend guide, a lookback at Wholey’s over the years, and a love letter to the Squirrel Cage.

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Oct 01 2020

💫 Did you see that fireball in the sky?

Plus, why you won’t be watching the Steelers this weekend.

Hello and welcome to Thursday — and the month of October. 

Well … did you see the fireball?

Neither did we, but local photog Dave DiCello definitely saw something streak across the sky yesterday morning — and he’s not alone based on the replies
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Sep 30 2020

📫 Fact-checking your mail-in ballot

Plus, a feathered “unicorn” in Westmoreland County.

Hello and welcome to Wednesday. 

We were up late watching the first presidential debate and kind of wish today was National Coffee Day instead of yesterday. But that won’t stop us from delivering the news.

Here’s what we’ve got: Fact-checking your mail-in ballot, what women in Pittsburgh’s wealthy suburbs could mean for this election, a feathered “unicorn” in Westmoreland County, one of the city’s oldest bars is up for sal
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Sep 29 2020

🏢 From historic building to ‘paintball battlefield’

Plus, a trip to Mac Miller Road in Vermont.

Hello and welcome to Tuesday. 

If you missed us yesterday, it’s because we’ve adopted a new Tuesday-Friday publishing schedule. And that’s not all.

We’re also offering exclusive content to supporting members now — those in our newly minted “Incline Insiders” club. We wanted to thank them for
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