The @pghguild.com's Ed Blazina starts out another week with a beyond-the-noise report on the PGH Regional Transit bus stops situation at The Waterfront, on which parties still are working to solve. He's also got his weekly heads-up on regional roadwork, including on Route 28: www.unionprogress.com

This week's Western Pennsylvania football rankings are out: www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/28/b...

This @pghguild.com Sunday paper is STRIKING, with stories on lifesaving Oakland traffic improvements, grants to the Mine Wars Museum to build “Courage in the Hollers," the 10/4 benefit concert for those hurt by the East Palestine derailment, and the Brighton Heights House Tour: www.unionprogress.com

All the Western Pennsylvania college football: The @pghguild.com's @johnnysantapup.bsky.social spent Saturday covering California of PA, Slippery Rock, Washington & Jefferson, Grove City, Seton Hill, Indiana of PA, Duquesne, Waynesburg, Thiel, Pitt and more: : www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/27/d...

Sept. 27.

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With grit and heart, coming off big injuries, the @pghguild.com sports team of Steve, Brad, Emily and @johnnysantapup.bsky.social covered Friday night right. 🏈scores, stars, sights and sounds are in today's PUP, with Ed Blazina on PGH Transit's plans and roadwork to avoid: www.unionprogress.com

Another week with no court ruling, another striker pizza.

Here's a great interview with @kenlburns.bsky.social and Sarah Botstein about their upcoming "The American Revolution" in the @thephilacitizen.bsky.social and by Pittsburgh Union Progress alum Delaney Parks: thephiladelphiacitizen.org/the-citizen-...

Check out the @pittsburghsteeler.bsky.social practice jerseys for the Dublin game. The @pghguild.com's Helen Fallon has the however you say scoop in Irish Gaelic: www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/26/s...

Yes, the @pghguild.com is still on its unfair labor practices strike, and still publishing a strike paper, with news on a meeting on the I-79/Route 910 Wexford interchange and two city traffic calming projects; a feature on fall parks events; and the big PUP football notebook: www.unionprogress.com

🚨 The largest strike in May 2025: 📍 AFSCME & @cwaunion.bsky.social workers at the University of California & UC Health 📍Over 57,000 workers took action ✊ We’ll also be releasing the June–August monthly reports soon—stay tuned! #LaborAction #Strikes #WorkerPower

The @pghguild.com strike paper's high school football Game of the Week: Upper St. Clair (5-0) at Peters (5-0). Steve Rotstein takes the snap. And Ed Blazina reports on a closure of the Mon Incline next week to replace the main cable and safety cable: www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com strike paper's Ed Blazina will attend Wednesday's public meeting on the first use of the single-point urban interchange in PennDOT's District 11, which includes Allegheny, Beaver and Lawrence counties, at the Wexford interchange: www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/23/m...

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The Monday @pghguild.com strike paper: The Panhandle Bridge upgrade is on, work on Pittsburgh Regional Transit's University Line stations and other roadwork around the region, and this week's Best in Show high school football rankings: www.unionprogress.com

Trailside.

The Sunday @pghguild.com strike paper leads with @johnnysantapup.bsky.social's comprehensive coverage of regional college football. Ed Blazina adds stories on using data to improve roads and driving habits, and on an awkward transit gap at the new @pitairport.bsky.social: www.unionprogress.com

Decided to open the box to make sure it’s good. 🧛‍♂️

What happened Friday night in Western Pennsylvania high school football? Here are the @pghguild.com strike paper's Emily, Steve and Johnny: www.unionprogress.com

It's quiet in the PUP newsroom, since the sports folks all work football tonight. Coffee pot chat centers on Ed Blazina's story on Pittsburgh Regional Transit's "best bad solution” to avoid devastating service cuts next year, and Helen Fallon's feature on Tunes for Tables: www.unionprogress.com

Does anyone recognize this @steelworkers.bsky.social logo? i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4ic...

Behold my old friend Dan Marsula's beautiful art: markrengersgallery.com/show/mark-re...

love this so much

The latest on the @pghguild.com strike: The journalists still are waiting, but also working on a few things: www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/18/s...

That buzz around the PUP football notebook? Yellowjackets. Brad Everett reports for the @pghguild.com strike paper: www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/18/p...

Today's @pghguild.com strike paper shares activist Vincent Scotti Eirene's obituary, previews fall hard-to-recycle items collections, picks Hopewell v. Avonworth for high school football Game of the Week, and drops a new ad -- for the 25th "Off the Record" on Oct. 16: www.unionprogress.com

In today's @pghguild.com strike paper: These two Pittsburgh-area parks places are "Great," as is the need for food assistance across the region, and this Upper St. Clair quarterback is "off to a nearly flawless start" and wanting to leave a good message in his senior season: www.unionprogress.com

We at the @pghguild.com strike paper are back for another week and who knows where that will take us? Thanks to Ed Blazina, we do have a few places we'll try to avoid: www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/15/i...

Still footballin' -- the @pghguild.com strike paper sports staff has this week's Best of Show high school team rankings: www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/14/b...

The @pghguild.com's @johnnysantapup.bsky.social covers ALL the regional college football; Helen Fallon lays out Love Your Library; Joe Knupsky shows how @newsguild.org solidarity is a verb for which Pittsburgh journalists are most grateful. It's all in the Sunday strike paper: www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com team had fun Friday night and early Saturday morning documenting Week 3 of football, feat. big wins by North Allegheny and North Catholic, a Quips comeback, and more games, stars, sights and sounds, and PUP bites. Plus PGH Transit gets service-saving funds: www.unionprogress.com

Hopefully the @pghguild.com strike paper sports team is sleeping in and eating a hearty breakfast because it's Friday and football night. The rest of the newsroom is talking about Ed Blazina's stories on PGH Transit seeking a funding fix and this weekend's -- whew! -- roadwork: www.unionprogress.com

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New PUP ad is a great one: casasanjose.salsalabs.org/quevivacleme...

PUP's on the rivers -- for Allegheny CleanWays' Immaculate Collection and for @thathakas.bsky.social to flex our mussels -- and in Shadyside for traffic calming. Steve Rotstein unleashes his aggressive football notebook and Brad Everett is all over college sports recruiting: www.unionprogress.com

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Darrin Kelly, the fiery figure who during the Trump era has been the face of Pittsburgh's labor movement amid a time of generational change, will step down from his post in January. www.wesa.fm/politics-gov...

The @pghguild.com strike paper has a special feature from Brad Everett with "a cast of characters that includes a head coach with a big, red beard who was an Academic All-American in his college playing career; an assistant who is 84" and "a quarterback named after an engine." www.unionprogress.com

According to this morning's @pghguild.com strike paper, Pittsburgh Regional Transit may phollow @septaphilly.bsky.social on a temporary transit phunds phix; Mission of Mercy needs medical volunteers; and there's more roadwork: www.unionprogress.com

The @pghguild.com strike paper's Ed Blazina has some breaking news to start the week: Some roadwork has been completed: www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/08/r...

The @pghguild.com strike paper sports staff's pick 6: www.unionprogress.com/2025/09/07/b...

One of PUP's 2-way (✍️ and 📷) players @johnnysantapup.bsky.social covers the hell out of regional college football; Brad Everett does Saturday's high school games; Ed Blazina reports a temporary fix to the state transit crisis; Helen Fallon features @412foodrescue.bsky.social. www.unionprogress.com

What happened in football Friday night? Here's the @pghguild.com strike paper's Emily Matthews, Steve Rotstein, Brad Everett and @johnnysantapup.bsky.social with the games, scoreboard, stars, sights and sounds, plus PUP Bites: unionprogress.com

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The art of the new @pitairport.bsky.social: blueskypit.com/watch-art-in...

The @pghguild.com newsroom is buzzin' around the coffee pot, but sports is silent. They're working football tonight. @johnnysantapup.bsky.social filed his NCAA Div. III preview, though, and Ed Blazina has your weekend roadwork plus an airy feature on the historic Liberty Tubes: www.unionprogress.com

Moor bitter, @independentbrew.bsky.social

Still on strike but working for our readers, the @pghguild.com PUP has three big stories: The "$100 million plan for eliminating the white-knuckle experience many drivers have at the Squirrel Hill interchange on the Parkway East," a PSAC preview, and the PUP football notebook: www.unionprogress.com

If you don't know Matthew Sweet and his "Girlfriend" album, nor Freedy Johnston, or especially if you do, you'll find this to be very sweet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKCi...