The Pittsburgh Record

It's Wednesday, January 29, 2020. In today's episode:    * Years in the making, Junior Achievement's "BizTown" opened in South Fayette this week, welcoming hundreds of school children into a mock "town square" populated by regional corporate brands * And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region   The Pittsburgh Record, from Postindustrial Media, is created by Adam Shuck and edited by Matt Stroud, with music by Phil Ortmann and sound editing by Tim Mulhern.   Subscribe to The Pittsburgh Record email newsletter at postindustrial.com/pghrecord

It's Tuesday, January 28, 2020. In today's episode:    * In a Washington Post article addressing what it calls a "splinter" in Democratic unity in Pennsylvania caused by fracking politics, Mayor Bill Peduto shares that he's leaning toward an endorsement of either Michael Bloomberg or Pete Buttigieg * And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region   The Pittsburgh Record, from Postindustrial Media, is created by Adam Shuck and edited by Matt Stroud, with music by Phil Ortmann and sound editing by Tim Mulhern.   Subscribe to The Pittsburgh Record email newsletter at postindustrial.com/pghrecord

It's Monday, January 27, 2020. In today's episode:    * The newest round of drinking water sample testing shows that PWSA has dropped below federal action thresholds for lead, while a recently released RAND study shows that Pittsburgh's sewage overflows total billions more gallons of pollution into our rivers than previously thought  * And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region   The Pittsburgh Record, from Postindustrial Media, is created by Adam Shuck and edited by Matt Stroud, with music by Phil Ortmann and sound editing by Tim Mulhern.   Subscribe to The Pittsburgh Record email newsletter at postindustrial.com/pghrecord

It's Friday, January 24, 2020. In today's episode:    * In today's episode of The Daily, from the New York Times, Pittsburgh and fracking take center stage — in what amounts to an argument for Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee * And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region   The Pittsburgh Record, from Postindustrial Media, is created by Adam Shuck and edited by Matt Stroud, with music by Phil Ortmann and sound editing by Tim Mulhern.   Subscribe to The Pittsburgh Record email newsletter at postindustrial.com/pghrecord

It's Thursday, January 23, 2020. In today's episode:    * Powerful Pennsylvania Republican House Speaker Mike Turzai becomes the latest, and most high profile, legislator to announce retirement in 2020 * And more news items from the city of Pittsburgh and our region   The Pittsburgh Record, from Postindustrial Media, is created by Adam Shuck and edited by Matt Stroud, with music by Phil Ortmann and sound editing by Tim Mulhern.   Subscribe to The Pittsburgh Record email newsletter at postindustrial.com/pghrecord