Tomlin Steps Down, Why Everyone's Sick & Cemetery Bone Heist
Mike Tomlin resigned this week after nearly 20 years with the Steelers. We're talking about his coaching legacy, what went wrong, and what's next for his career and the franchise. Plus, host Megan Harris and producer Sophia Lo are chatting about the PA Farm Show's butter sculpture, super flu, "The Pitt" at the Golden Globes, a new weekend newspaper, space news, and a very strange case of stolen human remains.
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Notes and references from today’s show:
- PHOTOS: 35th annual Pennsylvania Farm Show Butter Sculpture [WPXI]
- Who will be the Steelers’ next head coach? Possible candidates to replace Mike Tomlin [The Athletic]
- What to know about the "super flu" in Western Pa. [Axios Pittsburgh]
- Kindergarten vaccination rates at many Pittsburgh-area schools are below herd immunity [WESA]
- Park House Is Once Again Packing ‘Em in on the North Side [Pittsburgh Magazine]
- A Farewell to Hem’s: Hemingway’s Cafe in Oakland is Closing After 43 Years [Pittsburgh Magazine]
- ‘The Pitt’ Wins Two Golden Globes [Pittsburgh Magazine]
- Trib expands to fill Pittsburgh’s newspaper void [TribLive]
- More than 40 news sources remain in Pittsburgh’s fragmented media landscape [Public Source]
- ‘Which bone goes with which person?’: Costly investigation follows Pa. cemetery thefts [PennLive]
- Astrobotic secures $17.5M from NASA to test and expand reusable rockets [Technical.ly]
- PODCAST: Meteor Showers, Moon Launches & Pgh Among the Stars [City Cast Pittsburgh]
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