Rate Yinz Landlord, Population Ups & Downs, and 100 PA Bird Towns
It's Trans Day of Visibility! We're sharing some events and ways to mark the day in Pittsburgh, plus looking at where trans youth are going for gender-affirming care now that UPMC ended these services for patients under 19. We're also discussing the latest population numbers, a new platform to rate local landlords, the newest PA "bird town," and a new outdoor music festival.
Thanks to Hanna Webster, health reporter for the Post-Gazette, for discussing her reporting on gender-affirming care.
Don't forget to tell us what you love about Pittsburgh to be entered into our $1,000 giveaway! And we're also inviting you 412 Day, a totally real holiday to celebrate what makes Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
Notes and references from today’s show:
- Population Change in the Pittsburgh Region [University Center for Social and Urban Research]
- Pittsburgh area loses population amid nationwide immigration crackdown [Post-Gazette]
- PODCAST: Pittsburgh Isn’t Growing. Is That Actually Bad? [City Cast Pittsburgh]
- PODCAST: UPMC Didn't Challenge Trump, So These Pittsburgh Families Did [City Cast Pittsburgh]
- Trans teens in Pittsburgh scramble to access care months after options were largely cut off [Post-Gazette]
- ‘Knowledge is power:’ Rate Yinz Landlord offers students a voice on Oakland landlords [The Pitt News]
- Richland Township named Pennsylvania’s 100th Bird Town [TribLive]
- Live osprey camera back on at Moraine State Park [Butler Eagle]
- First baby eagle of 2026 hatches at U.S. Steel Irvin Plant nest [WTAE]
- Pittsburgh eagle cam captures chilling coyote howls: "Never heard anything like this" [KDKA]
- New Pittsburgh music festival launches this summer in Frick Park [WESA]
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