Amy Whipple

Speakers warn that surveillance technology threatens civil rights.

Council is studying the use of surveillance technology by local governments after receiving a report on it earlier this month.

Experts call the surveillance report just a starting point, $346,683 in pandemic aid moves to paving, and a Banksville site advances toward 124 townhomes.

Golden Horizons would bring a 55+ community with pickleball to Banksville.

A senior housing community that is planned for Banksville is set to clear another hurdle when council accepts the Pittsburgh Planning Commission’s recommendations and rezones the former Vincential…

Council pauses a $50,000 Vibrant Pittsburgh membership renewal to ask what it delivers.

A request to renew membership with Vibrant Pittsburgh illuminated a new concern for council.

Pittsburgh faces no fines for its 4,000+ code violations while a $50,000 Vibrant Pittsburgh membership renewal goes on hold.

Controller audit reveals city-owned properties break code rules but face no fines.

The City of Pittsburgh does not pay fines for code violations on city-owned properties.

Allegheny County Council proposals revisit the 2021 shackling ban for incarcerated people and would fine undisclosed AI county campaign ads up to $300.

Proposal would soften a 2021 ban on shackling incarcerated individuals during medical care.

Medical emergencies at the county jail are climbing, and so is the question of who should guard and transport the people having them.

Campaign materials built with generative AI could need a clear disclosure starting next year.

As the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow, so does the public desire to put boundaries around it.

Love Your Block returns after a two-year pause with $20,000 for 17 neighborhood groups.

The Office of Community Affairs (OCA) is once again helping neighborhood groups to love their blocks.

Verra Mobility’s red light cameras land on a list of 37 surveillance tools up for review.

As Pittsburgh readies itself for the next round of automated red light enforcement (ARLE) cameras, city council has asked to know more about the technology’s surveillance capabilities.

DOMI explains why it keeps tearing up newly paved streets, Red light cameras get a surveillance inquiry, and Love Your Block returns with $20,000.

Permit change aims to end no parking signs that linger for weeks with no work.

In the chaos of Pittsburgh’s construction season, if it’s not one frustration, it’s another.

Nearly $60,000 would buy a dozen trailers for snow and lawn crews.

A new Department of Public Works (DPW) purchase could help cut back the city’s overgrowth problem.

Pittsburgh's deficit reaches $30.2 million, deepened by assumed NFL Draft loss, as Public Works buys a dozen trailers for neglected upkeep.

Projected year-end deficit grows to $30.2 million as revenues fall short.

With the close of the second quarter, Pittsburgh’s financial situation is looking even more grim with the NFL Draft having put a $1 million hole in the budget.

County banks $100,000 by switching to digital paystubs, part of a zero-carbon goal.

Allegheny County saved $100,000 in the past year by switching to digital paystubs.

Data centers face a proposed ban on county-owned property, senior housing conditions get a Sept. 24 hearing, and paperless paystubs save $100,000.

Reports of deplorable apartments prompt a Sept. 24 hearing on senior housing.

The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development controls more than 10,000 housing units, for individuals and families, in Allegheny County.

Proposed ban would keep data centers off county-owned property.

A majority of Allegheny County Council members have agreed they want the county not to allow data centers on county-owned land.