
City Cast Pittsburgh
💡 Take this tricky Pittsburgh quiz!
September 5, 2024 · — Francesca Dabecco
We have a sweet treat for you, neighbor! The team is sharing their picks for the best baked goods in the Burgh on today’s City Cast Pittsburgh podcast 🧁

Dig into our favorite 🍪 cookies, 🍰 cakes, and 🥐 pastries — then scroll down to challenge yourself with today’s Pittsburgh news quiz ⬇️

What's CITY Talking About?

💔 Flowers for 9-Year-Old Courtney Carter
Carter was killed last month by a driver while riding her bike in Homewood, just days before she should’ve started a new school year at Pittsburgh Faison. [Bike Pittsburgh]
- 👟 Learn more about Vision Zero and the city's commitment to preventing fatal crashes. [🎧City Cast Pittsburgh]
- 🛑 Mt. Washington is getting traffic-calming measures along Grandview Avenue’s restaurant row and scenic overlook this week. [Pittsburgh Union Progress]
📬 Wrong Date? Mail Ballots Should Still Count
The Commonwealth Court ruled that throwing out mail-in ballots with incorrectly dated return envelopes is unconstitutional. Voting rights organizations claim this rule disenfranchised 10,000 voters in the 2022 election and thousands more in the 2024 primary. [TribLive]
📣 Allegheny Valley Hospital Union Votes To Strike
It’s the second Allegheny Health Network hospital to send a strike notice in recent weeks, asking for better pay and recruitment. West Penn nurses authorized a strike on Aug. 21. [TribLive]
🦠 Rising Risk of Measles Outbreak
As more parents choose not to get their kids vaccinated, some infectious diseases — which require a near-perfect vaccination rate — are making a comeback. In Pennsylvania, parents who object to vaccines for religious or philosophical reasons can request an exemption and still send their children to school. [SpotlightPA]

The Hey Pittsburgh News Quiz!

💥 Pop quiz, Pittsburgh! It’s time to play along as we test your knowledge of local history and current events. And head’s up — our quizmaster won’t take it easy on you!
Shoutout to our perfect scorers last week: Vance D. and Sarah S. We’re pleased to report many of yinz know your Point State Park fountain history, but far fewer remembered how campaign visits during the 2016 election shook out! If you missed it, you can still play last week’s quiz here.
Here’s this round’s first question:

What To Do
Thursday, Sep. 5
- 💼 Down 2 Business Networking Mixer at The Deck | 5-8 p.m. | free | Mt. Oliver
- 📝 Poets Aloud with Jan Beatty | 6 p.m. | free | Oakland
- 🎥 ReelAbilities Film Festival | various times — through Sept. 11 | various locations
- 🥟 Pierogi & Wine Pairing at Black Dog Wine Company | 6 p.m. | $25 | Oakdale
- 🪐 Outer Space Drag Bingo at Space Bar | 6:30 p.m. | $10+ | Downtown
Friday, Sep. 6
- 🎥 ReelAbilities Film Festival | various times — through Sept. 11 | various prices | Chateau, Downtown & virtual
- 🎨 A Fair in the Park Arts Festival | various times — through Sept. 8 | free | Point Breeze
- 🍀 2024 Pittsburgh Irish Festival at Carrie Blast Furnaces | various times — through Sept. 8 | $23.18+ | Rankin
- 🌻 Phipps Botanical Boutique | various times — through Sept. 8 | free | Oakland
- 📖 “Homing: Instincts of a Rust Belt Feminist" at White Whale Bookstore | 7-8 p.m. | free | Bloomfield
Saturday, Sep. 7
- 🍄 Flora & Fungi Hike at Dead Man’s Hollow | 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | free | McKeesport
- 🌻 Sewickley Harvest Festival | 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. | free | Sewickley
- 🏃 5k Beer Run | 11 a.m. | $38.68+ | Millvale
- 🌟 Stitch-A-Thon at the Millvale Library | 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. | fundraiser | Millvale
- 🍽️ Heritage Kitchen at Heinz History Center | 11 a.m. - 12 pm. | $10 for non-members | Strip District
- 🏡 Brighton Heights Hour Tours | 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. | $23.18+ | Brighton Heights
- 🚗 Pistons in the Park at Allegheny Commons | 12-4 p.m. | free | North Shore
- 🌾 Freedom Harvest Celebration at the Frick Environmental Center | 1-4 p.m. | free | Squirrel Hill
- 🚲 End of Summer Roll Up with POGOH | 4 p.m. | free | South Side
- 🖼️ Assemble’s MakerDate Auction at Maverick Hotel | 6-9 p.m. | $75+ | East Liberty
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✊ At press time, the White House looked poised to block the U.S. Steel sale to Nippon, and hundreds of people who appear to be union members were gathered Downtown to support the sale. Signs said “$3B reasons to say yes.”
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