Pittsburgh City Council voted Thursday to renew the city’s lease on its North Side police headquarters, a week after opposing the measure in a preliminary vote. The city has been leasing a Western Avenue building for its police headquarters for 20 years. The existing lease was set to expire at
Pittsburgh City Council on Monday voted to ban the French delicacy foie gras. The measure — sponsored by council members Bruce Kraus, D-South Side, and Erika Strassburger, D-Squirrel Hill — bans the sale of force-fed animal products. Foie gras is created by forcing a foot-long tube down a bird’s throat