I once had only one reason to desire becoming a celebrity (access to the far-easier Celebrity Jeopardy), but now I suppose I have two.

The full article is worth reading to explore how Florida ended up here.

(My only complaint: no mention of tax policy, other than property taxes rising. Florida has perhaps the most regressive tax system in the nation!)

NWSL Will Add Its 18th Team in Columbus The city and county just approved $50 million in public funding for the training facility and team.

The NWSL added a new expansion team in Columbus today.

"This is a city that has long been at the heart of American soccer," said commissioner Jessica Berman.

Expansion fees for 2026 & 2028 clubs:

Boston: $53M
Denver: $110M
Atlanta: $165M
Columbus: $205M frontofficesports.com/nwsl-columbu...

Nation state uses renewables to end dependence on foreign oil and gas.

More details were emailed to library users throughout Allegheny County today. It's tough -- I know how desperately libraries try to reign in skyrocketing costs for e-materials.

One nugget from this (very good!) story:

Former Pens exec and longtime politico Kevin Acklin did indeed lead a group trying to buy the Post-Gazette, "but a potential deal fell through when Block insisted the union not be part of it."

Exactly right. It is, for good and for ill, a triumph of the NFL's marketing prowess.

Attending regular season games has become too expensive for most fans, so here's your free opportunity to be in the league's de facto fanfest.

when you made a promise to attend your friend's big show, but you get there and it's suuuuuuuper boring

MLB replaces All-Star Celebrity Softball Game with 3-on-3 competition MLB has replaced its All-Star Celebrity Softball Game with a 3-on-3 competition.

Yep, appears to be dunzo. www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...

Good job opportunity for comms work at AFSCME -- can be in Pittsburgh, Albany or D.C.

Mike Tomlin to join NBC’s Sunday night NFL pregame show: Sources Tomlin, the longtime head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, was a sought-after on-air NFL TV talent.

🚨🏈 NEWS: Mike Tomlin is headed to NBC and Football Night in America, The Athletic has learned.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/721...

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Final score: 974

depending on your projection system of choice, the Pirates currently have better odds of winning the World Series than the Pens do of winning the Cup.

Many people are saying that Pittsburgh produced the two best relievers in baseball.

On @lastweektonight.com this week, #Pittsburgh News (KDKA 2, WTAE 4, and WPXI 11) makes an appearance on trying to pronounce the new #Pirates
#hotdog " The #Boricua dog ". #LetsGoBucs.

Sub-2:02 in BOSTON?! Hot damn.

Pennsylvania's motor-voter system effectively screens non-citizens from voter registration • Pennsylvania Capital-Star The audit also revealed problems with PennDOT’s data security protocols and recommended tighter internal controls.

Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote.

They found one. One.

And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.

This game is going to force me to learn Chinese geography

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Final score: 921

👏👏👏 We worked through an entire zoning rewrite in Dormont to make this happen and I can't be more thrilled to welcome more affordable housing with first-floor retail on a TOD site that current is a half-empty surface lot 50% of the time.

Hell, Buffalo fans will probably crowdfund some extra pillows for you

Kickstart ALL of Our Hearts

Well Buffalo fans, you had to wait 95 years… and 55 minutes or so.

47-30 run differential on the homestand

Hahaha

#RaiseIt 🏴‍☠️

#HoistTheCone

Your Pirates are exactly 13-9 for the first time since 2016.

Exactly. Show some respect for the legend Dovydas Neverauskas.

they’d better keep the Pitt Man in to get us to 13-9

terrific work from Keller on a day when we needed to keep those relievers riding the pine

Dude just goes out there every year and hits for a .790 OPS, no matter what.

B-REY! OutSTANDING.

Buccos up 4-2 and about to get into a fatigued Rays bullpen. Do it.