Apartment trade group advises membership to disregard city's new voluntary rental registration

The administration of Mayor Ed Gainey's voluntary roll out of the contested Residential Housing Rental Permit Program has motivated a local apartment trade group to advise its members to disregard it.

The Gainey administration announced in mid December that the city's Department of Permits, Licenses, and Inspections (PLI) had launched the permit program to "ensure rental properties in Pittsburgh meet basic health and safety standards" to enforce the new ordinance...Read More

For more than a century, Grant Street Tavern has served politicians, judges and the average Joe

For more than a century, Downtown’s Grant Street has seen politicians rise and fall. But through change and turmoil, there has been one constant — a little bar next to City Hall.

Over the years, the Grant Street Tavern has survived the political coups and Machiavellian maneuvers across the street. It has been a shoulder to cry on, a back room to cut deals, and a refuge from the bluster and backstabbing in the halls of power...Read More

U.S. Steel-Nippon deal: After CFIUS deadlocks, how we got here and what comes next

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States — a federal panel created to screen deals for national security risks and deliver a recommendation to the president — deadlocked over its review of the proposed $15 billion sale of U.S. Steel to Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel.

The decision is now up to President Joe Biden, who has long-opposed the deal. The deadlock on Monday triggered a 15-day window for Mr. Biden to issue a decision...Read More