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Save the dates: From Jon Schleuss supports PittsburghPG strikers's The NewsGuild-CWA newsletter today:

Quotes from our (thank you!) donors:

Our Brad Everett and Emily Matthews report from the PIAA track and field championships in Shippensburg University: "Quaker Valley SD's Mimi Thiero once again soared to new heights Friday, and a high jump was again the reason for it." unionprogress.com/2025/05/23/pia…

Dateline: Shippensburg University. Our Emily Matthews and Brad Everett are there, and here's their report including "one of the most exciting finishes from Day 1 of the 100th PIAA track and field championships": unionprogress.com/2025/05/23/pia…

Spring sports are like lawns: A little rain delay and suddenly they're taking over. Our sports crew -- Brad Everett, Steve Rotstein, Emily Matthews -- have their hands full with PIAA track & field championships, softball and baseball semis. You can, too: unionprogress.com

Our Brad Everett and Emily Matthews have filed from Shippensburg their coverage of the girls and boys at the PIAA state track and field championships. You don't need to know the sports to appreciate this. You just need to know people: unionprogress.com

They're withholding labor from the PG until it follows the law/a court order and negotiates a contract. But meanwhile these Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh 🗞 members have made a fine Sunday strike paper, covering labor, air pollution, transit, college baseball and track & field: unionprogress.com

Today's Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh 🗞 strike paper leads with a look ahead to the WPIAL baseball championships by our Steve Rotstein, and a look back at the PIAA track & field championships in the gold-medal photography of our Emily Matthews: unionprogress.com

Randy Stoernell bags a lovely sunset. It's in today's PUP, along with Steve Rotstein's softball & baseball championship previews, Ed Blazina on a controversial Downtown bus stop and roadwork, and Abigail Hakas on a city effort to help residents fix sidewalks: unionprogress.com

Throw to first: Brad Everett and Emily Matthews have the 6A baseball championship game covered: unionprogress.com/2025/05/27/wpi…

The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh 🗞 strike paper has all of Tuesday's WPIAL championship baseball games and previews of today's baseball / softball championships (by Brad Everett, Steve Rotstein & Emily Matthews), and a Helen Fallon story on a "giving circle" of 100+ Women Who Care: unionprogress.com

Our sports team is out trying to write about softball and baseball championships in this weather, which means that later there won't be a dry "I" in the newsroom ...

“It’s extremely important that companies can’t do what the Post-Gazette is trying to do… If we have to be the last people to draw that line in the sand… so be it. We’ve been here this long, there’s no reason to go away now.” Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh 🗞 therealnews.com/an-update-on-t…

"With the rain steadily falling Wednesday at EQT Park in Washington, Skaggs rained strikes on No. 6 Carmichaels Area, firing a no-hitter with 10 strikeouts to vault No. 1 Serra Catholic HS to a 9-0 win in the 1A championship." Brad Everett & Emily Matthews report: unionprogress.com/2025/05/28/wpi…

The discovery of serious structural problems prompts the emergency closure today of another Pittsburgh bridge -- the Herron Avenue Bridge connecting Lawrenceville and Polish Hill. Our transportation guy Ed Blazina reports: unionprogress.com/2025/05/28/pit…

But we back up our bragging with a Thursday strike paper with stories on the Armstrong Tunnel opening and Herron Avenue Bridge closing plus the WPIAL baseball/softball championships we'll be covering all day. For us, paid or not, the reward is the work: unionprogress.com

The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh 🗞 strike paper sports team -- Brad Everett, Steve Rotstein, Emily Matthews, Rick -- has gotten two games in in the WPIAL softball championships. Four more to go. Follow along at unionprogress.com

Our switch-hitting sports team has coverage of the other four @WPIAL softball champions -- Union Area SD, Neshannock Lancer Softball, Mohawk Softball and Shaler Area Titans (joining Hempfield Softball and Hampton Talbots Softball) -- and here's your weekend roadwork forecast: unionprogress.com

The Sunday strike paper leads with the rally for single-payer health care, Pennsylvania's new distracted driver law (no holding your cell phone in the car now), Pittsburgh parks' high ranking, and an ongoing worker dispute at an abortion care provider: unionprogress.com