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92-608: The roots of the Yellow Jackets trace back to the winter of 1915–16, when Roy Schooley , a local politician and former hockey referee, put together an amateur team to play exhibition games at the Duquesne Garden . Schooley brought in Canadian players including Dinny Manners, brothers Larry and Joe McCormick , and Russell McCrimmon . The team, known as the "Duquesne Garden hockey team" after its home arena, compiled

184-568: A Kenny Chesney concert tailgate. The pulling of Johnson from the story prompted an outcry from journalists, including the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh and many of Johnson's Post-Gazette colleagues. The Post-Gazette won Pulitzer Prizes in 1938 , 1998 , and 2019 . Photographer Morris Berman maintained that the paper would have also won a Pulitzer in 1964 , had it chosen to run the iconic photo of Y. A. Tittle that he took at Pitt Stadium , which would go on to win awards, hang in

276-533: A silver medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp , Belgium and is credited with helping to foster the growth of hockey in the country. Outside of sports, also Schooley worked as the treasurer to the City of Pittsburgh and as the campaign manager to Edward V. Babcock , who would go on to become Pittsburgh's mayor in 1918. However a purchasing scandal forced him from his position in 1931, which soon developed to

368-618: A 23,000 seat outdoor amphitheater in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania , the "Post-Gazette Pavilion", although it is still often referred to as "Star Lake", based on the original name, "Star Lake Amphitheater", and later " Coca-Cola Star Lake Amphitheater" under the former sponsor. They gave up naming rights in 2010. First Niagara Bank , which had entered the Pittsburgh market the year before after acquiring National City branches from Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services , took over

460-742: A 37–3–0 record. During the winter of 1917–18 the PAA team joined the New York Wanderers , Boston Arenas and Boston Navy Yard in forming the United States National Hockey League , which would last only one season. The PAA won the league title and went on to defeat the Montreal Hochelaga club, holders of the Art Ross Cup , in an international amateur championship series to win a new honor called

552-615: A Sunday paper to compete with the Sunday Press but it was not profitable; rising costs in general were challenging the company's bottom line. In November 1961, the Post-Gazette entered into an agreement with the Pittsburgh Press Company to combine their production and advertising sales operations. The Post-Gazette owned and operated its own news and editorial departments, but production and distribution of

644-656: A Yellow Jackets’ game, leading to the creation of the Ice Capades . Then, on October 4, 1936, Harris purchased the Detroit Olympics and moved the team to Pittsburgh, where they were renamed the Pittsburgh Hornets . Some players from the Yellow Jackets and Shamrocks players then joined the Hornets. After the 1936–37 season, the Yellow Jackets folded. Two players from the team have been inducted into

736-532: A developer headquartered in Moon Township , for $ 13.25 million. As of late 2022, DiCicco Development is still deciding what type of use might work best on the property. On 6 October 2022 the advertising, distribution and production workers at the Post Gazette went on strike. On October 18, the newsroom workers joined the strike. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) also pursued a case against

828-664: A family illness as the reason. Schooley was then succeeded by Corneilus Fellows. Whatever the reason for Schooley's departure, the Post commented with considerable justification that "the absence of the man who organized and coached the Olympiad team since its formation will be a distinct loss to the American team…" The team that Schooley built, won a silver medal at the Antwerp Games. It was during this time that he also became

920-650: A future Hall of Famer , to come to Pittsburgh and officiate games, "to see if the crowd would take to him". Schooley then asked Conacher to play with the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets in a four-game series against his former team, the Toronto Aura Lee hockey team, and against the Hamilton Tigers . Conacher impressed the Pittsburgh fans by scoring 11 of the Yellow Jackets' 23 goals in the four games. Schooley then used his connections in

1012-662: A group that acquired the Niagara Falls franchise in the International Hockey League and transferred it to Pittsburgh under the reclaimed name "Yellow Jackets". The Pittsburgh team competed in the IHL for only two seasons. In 1932, the Yellow Jackets served as a farm team for the Chicago Black Hawks who often took several of their key players in mid-season. Before a March 1932 game against

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1104-669: A jury indictment of Schooley on embezzlement and misdemeanor charges. Schooley was unable to attend his trial due to his failing health. The trial was postponed indefinitely and charges were still pending at the time of his death in November 1933. Despite his positive impact in promoting ice hockey in the United States, Schooley was actually born in Canada . On April 13, 1880, he was born in Welland , Ontario . He studied law at

1196-557: A jury indictment of Schooley on embezzlement and misdemeanor charges. Schooley was then removed from office by Charles Kline, who himself was under fire for the scandal. At the same time, Schooley became ill and was unable to even leave his home to attend his own trial. The hearing was postponed indefinitely and charges were still pending at the time of his death. He died at his home in Pittsburgh on November 13, 1933, surrounded by his friends and family. Pittsburgh Gazette Times The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , also known simply as

1288-646: A member of the U.S. Olympic hockey team. In the Yellow Jackets' 1923–24 season opening game at Duquesne Garden, Conacher scored a hat trick . The Yellow Jackets posted a 15–5–0 record for the season to earn first place in the league's Western group. Pittsburgh then defeated the Boston Athletic Association to win the Fellowes Cup 4 games to 1 in the playoffs. A Boston newspaper, the Boston Traveller , on January 29, 1924, termed

1380-438: A new supervisor he had 19 cartoons or cartoon ideas killed in the first six months of 2018. Four months after Rogers was fired, the Post-Gazette hired conservative editorial cartoonist Steve Kelley as Rogers' replacement. After being fired, Rogers' comics continued to be published through Andrews McMeel Syndication . As a freelancer, Rogers was named as a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning, with

1472-762: A record of 20 wins, 3 losses and no ties in early 1916 against teams from Canada and the US. A highlight of the season was a three-game series sweep of the St. Paul (Minnesota) Athletic Club , which had won the MacNaughton Cup as champion of the American Hockey Association and had defeated the Lachine club of Canada, holders of the Art Ross Cup . After beating St. Paul, the Duquesne Garden team

1564-649: A reporter for the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph and the Gazette Times . After working on a few general assignments, Schooley was promoted to covering city politics. He soon became a member of the Republican Party and gained the backing of those politically active in the city and county . Political officials were impressed with his executive ability and his faculty of grasping political situations, leading Schooley to become

1656-431: A result of these issues, the paper considered a number of options, including putting the paper up for sale. In August 2018 the Post-Gazette ceased publishing daily. It cut down to online editions on Tuesdays and Saturdays and print editions the remaining days of the week. In October 2019, the paper further reduced its paper editions to Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. In March 2021, the paper cut down again, getting rid of

1748-727: A state of the art production facility in Marshall Township north of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County. Relations between the Post-Gazette and Tribune-Review, during its existence as a local print publication, were often competitive and frequently hostile, given Scaife's longstanding distaste for what he considered the Blocks' liberalism. On 14 November 2011 the Post-Gazette revived the Pittsburgh Press as an afternoon online newspaper . On 12 February 2014,

1840-610: A statement: "It's as simple as this: Rogers was fired for refusing to do cartoons extolling Trump. Let that sink in." The paper said that Rogers' dismissal "has little to do with politics, ideology or Donald Trump" but did not provide details. Rogers wrote in the New York Times that the paper's new management had decided, in the lead-up to his firing, that his cartoons satirizing Trump "were 'too angry. ' " Rogers said that while editors had previously rejected (or " spiked ") an average of two to three of his cartoons each year, under

1932-589: A wide acquaintance among hockey fans in every city that had a team. Schooley's skills as the team's manager brought the franchise USAHA championships in 1924 and 1925. The Yellow Jackets stopped playing when the United States Amateur Hockey Association folded at the end of the 1924–25 season. In the fall of 1925, the former Yellow Jackets players entered the National Hockey League as an expansion team named

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2024-783: A year and would be barely nudged out of the playoffs. In 1926, the playoff series was just two games long, with total goals deciding the issue. The Pirates, who finished third in the seven-team NHL, lost to the Montreal Maroons , 3–1, in the opener in Pittsburgh and tied, 3–3, in Montreal. The Maroons' 6–4 edge in goals gave them the series and they went on to win the 1926 Stanley Cup. Among the Jackets-turned-Pirates were two Hockey Hall of Famers—Lionel Conacher and goalie Roy Worters. The Pirates would operate from 1925 until 1930. The Pittsburgh Hockey Club that succeeded

2116-417: Is played by our own boys … [and Pittsburgh hockey] … is played mainly by a bunch of traveling mercenaries, who practically all are of Canadian birth and training." Boston Herald columnist W.E. Mullins referred to the Yellow Jackets as "Pittsburgh's Canadians". These imported players joined current Yellow Jackets players Dinny Manners and Herb Drury, the latter of whom was about to win his second silver medal as

2208-634: The Dispatch and Leader . Four years later, William Randolph Hearst negotiated with the Olivers to purchase the morning Gazette Times and its evening sister, the Chronicle Telegraph , while Paul Block arranged to buy out the owner of the morning Post and evening Sun . After swapping the Sun in return for Hearst's Gazette Times , Block had both morning papers, which he combined to form

2300-638: The Pittsburgh Gazette Times and later the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph , the USAHA was not a completely amateur league. Sullivan noted that even though the USAHA was called an amateur league, "They didn't come down from Canada because they thought Pittsburgh was a nice place." The eastern teams of USAHA soon imported Canadian players, to add to their rosters of local players. In February 1923, Schooley invited Lionel Conacher ,

2392-658: The Pittsburgh Press made mention of Schooley returning to work as the referee of a game between the Pittsburgh Athletic Club and the Pittsburgh Lyceum . Schooley became a nationalized citizen of the United States on September 27, 1912. After his career in politics, Schooley founded the Pittsburgh's amateur hockey team, the Yellow Jackets in 1915, and became the manager of the Duquesne Gardens. As with all American teams of this era,

2484-558: The 1903-04 season officiated inner-state six games between the Portage Lakes Hockey Club and several teams from the WPHL. He also served as a referee at the Duquesne Gardens from 1906-1908. However the Pittsburgh Press reported on January 5, 1908, that he resigned from his officiating duties, because he could not arrange to with his employers to get away two nights of the week at referee games. On January 14, 1908,

2576-543: The 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for a series of photo essays on 21-year-olds, which was published in the Post-Gazette and two other papers of the Block Newspapers group. This award cited Block Newspapers rather than the Post-Gazette specifically. The Post-Gazette won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting . The paper

2668-507: The Buffalo Bisons , Pittsburgh's Doc Romnes was recalled to Chicago to aid the team in their NHL title chase. This and other roster moves over the season left the Yellow Jackets' coach, Charlie Reid to constantly change his forward lines. By 1932, the Yellow Jackets were having financial problems, despite the support Pittsburgh fans gave them, leaving some doubt as to whether the team would operate in 1932–33. On August 22, 1932, it

2760-687: The Gazette championed the Anti-Masonic movement. Craig turned the Gazette into the city's first daily paper, issued every afternoon except Sunday starting on July 30, 1833. In 1844, shortly after absorbing the Advocate , the Gazette switched its daily issue time to morning. Its editorial stance at the time was conservative and strongly favoring the Whig Party . By the 1850s the Gazette

2852-399: The Gazette published the newly adopted Constitution of the United States . In 1820, under publishers Eichbaum and Johnston and editor Morgan Neville, the name changed to Pittsburgh Gazette and Manufacturing and Mercantile Advertiser . David MacLean bought the paper in 1822, and later reverted to the former title. Under editor Neville B. Craig , whose service lasted from 1829 to 1841,

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2944-525: The Gazette . Like its predecessors, the Post advocated the policies of the Democratic Party. Its political opposition to the Whig and later Republican Gazette was so enduring that an eventual combination of the two rivals would have seemed unlikely. The 1920s were a time of consolidation in the Pittsburgh newspaper market. In 1923, local publishers banded together to acquire and kill off

3036-473: The Hockey Hall of Fame : Brimsek in 1966 and winger Gordie Drillon in 1975. Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against Roy Schooley Roy Dunlap Schooley (April 13, 1880 – November 13, 1933) was a former hockey referee who later became the manager of both Duquesne Gardens , located in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , and

3128-779: The PG , is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania . Descended from the Pittsburgh Gazette , established in 1786 as the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains , the paper formed under its present title in 1927 from the consolidation of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and The Pittsburgh Post . The Post-Gazette ended daily print publication in 2018 and has cut down to two print editions per week (Sunday and Thursday), going online-only

3220-717: The Pittsburgh Civic Arena . The Yellow Jackets had a hand in providing Pittsburgh with another professional hockey team, the Pittsburgh Shamrocks . The idea for the Shamrocks team came about when Yellow Jackets' owner, John Harris, and Charles King, president of the International American Hockey League, met in Pittsburgh to discuss Pittsburgh’s possible entrance into the league in the fall. The meeting resulted in

3312-599: The Pittsburgh Pirates . After five seasons in Pittsburgh, the Pirates left the city and became the short-lived Philadelphia Quakers , due to issues related to the Great Depression and the failure to find a replacement for the aging Duquesne Gardens . Shortly afterwards, Schooley along with partners James Callahan and Horace Townsend created a second iteration of the Yellow Jackets by taking over

3404-653: The Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets of the United States Amateur Hockey Association . In 1925, the Yellow Jackets hockey club, evolved into the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National Hockey League . On March 16, 1920 at the Duquesne Gardens, he helped found USA Hockey , the governing body for amateur ice hockey in the United States . That same year, he assembled the first U.S. Olympic Hockey Team which won

3496-555: The Post-Gazette and WPXI have on occasion had some news partnerships, the Post-Gazette's primary news partner is now the local CBS owned-and-operated station KDKA-TV . In 2019, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was a founding member of Spotlight PA , an investigative reporting partnership focused on Pennsylvania. When John Craig handed editorial reign to David Shribman in 2003, Craig told Shribman that

3588-510: The Post-Gazette editorial page. Pittsburgh mayor William Peduto (who was both a friend of Rogers' and had been lampooned in his cartoons) called the paper's firing of Rogers "disappointing" and said it sent "the wrong message about press freedoms." The firing was strongly criticized by the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh and the National Cartoonists Society . The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists said in

3680-647: The Post-Gazette . Hearst united the evening papers, creating the Sun-Telegraph . Both new papers debuted on August 2, 1927. In 1960, Pittsburgh had three daily papers: the Post-Gazette in the morning, and the Pittsburgh Press and the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph in the evening and on Sunday. The Post-Gazette bought the Sun-Telegraph and moved into the Sun-Telegraph' s Grant Street offices. The Post-Gazette tried to publish

3772-417: The Press shut down publication of the Press ; the joint operating agreement meant that the Post-Gazette also ceased to publish. During the strike, the Scripps Howard company sold the Press to the Block family, owners of the Post-Gazette . The Blocks did not resume printing the Press , and when the labor issue was resolved and publishing resumed, the Post-Gazette became the city's major paper, under

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3864-518: The Pro Football Hall of Fame , and be used for the back cover of Tittle's autobiography and in a Miller Beer High-Life commercial in 2005. In 1938, Ray Sprigle won the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting for his investigation revealing that newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan . Staff photographer Martha Rial won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for her photographs of Rwandan and Burundian refugees. Photographer John Kaplan won

3956-423: The Toronto Arenas to the Stanley Cup in 1918, was appointed the team's coach once Conacher and his teammates arrived in Pittsburgh for the 1923–24 season by Schooley. However the use of Canadian players drew criticism, with the Boston -based teams leading the charge. In one instance, the Boston Herald questioned why: "Boston hockey … [was] hooked up with Pittsburgh at all… [After all] the best hockey in Boston

4048-439: The University of Toronto , however his fascination with sports diverted him away from that career path. Schooley then came to Pittsburgh in 1901 and worked as a hockey referee. Since the sport was new to most Pennsylvanians, he was viewed as an expert on the sport. Schooley officiated several of the teams associated with the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League (WPHL), the first hockey league to openly hire and trade players. During

4140-435: The county seat of adjoining Westmoreland County , where it had published for years. While maintaining the original paper in its facilities in Greensburg, he expanded it with a new Pittsburgh edition to serve the city and its suburbs. Scaife named this paper the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review . Scaife has invested significant amounts of capital into upgraded facilities, separate offices and newsroom on Pittsburgh's North Side and

4232-416: The 2010s, especially following the 2018 consolidation of its editorial department with that of longtime sister newspaper The Blade of Toledo, Ohio , and the appointment of The Blade's editorial page editor, Keith Burris, a frequent defender of Donald Trump , as the Post-Gazette's editorial page editor. Burris assumed the additional position of executive editor of the Post-Gazette in 2019. In 2020,

4324-562: The 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for an investigation into sexual abuse in Pennsylvania's Amish and Mennonite communities. Michael Sallah , Michael Korsh and Evan Robinson-Johnson of the Post-Gazette , with ProPublica , won the 2023 George Polk Award for medical reporting for a series on Philips Respironics' efforts to continue marketing their breathing machines despite knowing they were dangerous to users. The Post-Gazette historically sided with modern liberalism in its editorial stance. However, it turned more conservative in

4416-504: The Duquesne Gardens for games in early to mid-March. On March 16, 1920 he named his team. Forwards : Joe McCormick , Larry McCormick and Herb Drury of Pittsburgh; Frank " Moose" Goheen and Anthony Conroy of St. Paul; and George Geran and Frank Synott of Boston. Defensemen : Irving Small and Leon Tuck of Boston; and Ed Fitzgerald of St. Paul. Goaltenders : Raymond Bonney of Pittsburgh and Cyril Weidenborner of St. Paul. Schooley later named Joe McCormick from Pittsburgh as

4508-433: The Fellowes international trophy. That season's overall record of 24–3–2 included a 22-game winning streak. There was no 1918–19 season for the PAA, with Duquesne Garden being used as a barracks and most of the players in military service. The team resumed its dominance in 1919–20, going 25–5–3 playing an independent schedule. The PAA team figured prominently in the formation of the first U.S. Olympic ice hockey team . When

4600-409: The Friday edition. In June 2018, the Post Gazette fired its long-time editorial cartoonist, Rob Rogers , a previous Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning finalist who had worked at the paper for 25 years, having joined the paper in 1993 and worked under four supervising editors . The firing came in the context of increasing support for President Donald Trump and political conservatism on

4692-506: The Niagara Falls franchise in the International Hockey League and transferring it to Pittsburgh. Schooley was president of the new team, which competed in the International Hockey League from 1930 to 1932. In 1920, Schooley became the manager of the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team. As manager of the Olympic squad, he had full power to select the players for the team. Schooley knew the Pittsburgh players well enough and also evaluated other players from both Boston and St. Paul , when they were at

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4784-446: The Pirates formally suspended operations. The Yellow Jackets went dormant as well, and ultimately disbanded without playing another season. Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against In January 1935, Pittsburgh theater chain owner John H. Harris , who had taken a lease on the Garden in 1932, hired coach and former player Dinny Manners to put together an amateur team with

4876-418: The Pirates-Yellow Jackets jerseys as precedence for the move. Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against The Pirates left Pittsburgh and became the short-lived Philadelphia Quakers in 1930, due to issues related to the Great Depression and the failure to find a replacement for the aging Duquesne Garden . Shortly afterwards, Schooley headed

4968-403: The Pittsburgh Athletic Association hockey team in 1920 wore black jerseys with gold trim and the word "Pittsburg" (as the name of the city was still sometimes spelled) written in script diagonally across the chest. Black and gold had also been worn by the club's original predecessor, the 1916 Duquesne Garden team. In November 1922, the Pittsburgh club switched to gold jerseys with a black "P" on

5060-507: The Pittsburgh Hockey Club, shedding the red and gray colors of the PAA for new uniforms of black and gold. An original member of the USAHA, the team played only a few exhibition games in its inaugural season before suspending operations because of eligibility problems. It was reapproved for league play for the following season. The team would not become known as the Yellow Jackets until the 1922–23 season. According to former sports reporter Paul Sullivan, who covered hockey for much of his life for

5152-453: The Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets at the request of the team's coach, Dinny Manners , to prepare the team against the Toronto Argonauts . According to former sports reporter Paul Sullivan, who covered hockey for much of his life for the Pittsburgh Gazette Times , the USAHA was not a completely amateur league. Sullivan noted that even though the USAHA was called an amateur league, "They didn't come down from Canada because they thought Pittsburgh

5244-417: The Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets in a four-game series against his former teammates, and the Toronto Aura Lee hockey team, and against the Hamilton Tigers . Conacher impressed the Pittsburgh fans by scoring 11 of the Yellow Jackets' 23 goals in the four games. Conacher then under the guidance of Roy Schooley, transformed the Yellow Jackets line-up to an almost Canadian team. Schooley then used his connections in

5336-459: The Pittsburgh media to promote Conacher to the city's hockey fans. After seeing how well the fans took to Conacher, Schooley made him the team's captain, and asked him to invite a number of his friends to play for the Yellow Jackets. These players included Harold Cotton , Hib Milks , Harold Darragh , Rodger Smith , Duke McCurry "Tex" White and goalie Roy Worters . During his time in hockey, Schooley often traveled with his teams often enjoying

5428-411: The Pittsburgh media to promote Conacher to the city's hockey fans. After seeing how well the fans took to Conacher, Schooley made him the team's captain, and asked him to invite a number of his friends to play for the Yellow Jackets. These players included Harold Cotton , Hib Milks , Harold Darragh , Rodger Smith , Duke McCurry , "Tex" White and goalie Roy Worters . Dick Carroll , who had coached

5520-404: The Yellow Jackets "a wonder team" and another account referred to Conacher as "Canada’s Wonder Athlete". The trio of Rodger Smith, Conacher and Roy Worters was part of Pittsburgh’s "stonewall defense." The Yellow Jackets were so dominant by 1924 that they spun off another Pittsburgh team, named the Fort Pitt Hornets , who played in the Eastern Division. Dinny Manners, who served as player-coach of

5612-490: The Yellow Jackets fell under the jurisdiction of the International Skating Union . In late October, 1920, the United States Amateur Hockey Association was formed, with Yellow Jackets officials Schooley and William S. Haddock serving as co-founders and respectively acting as the league's secretary-treasurer and president. However outside of his league and manager duties, Schooley also served as his team's coach at times. On December 5, 1922, he briefly took over coaching duties for

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5704-410: The Yellow Jackets had joined the EAHL with the New York Rovers . During the team's three seasons of play, Frank Brimsek served as the team's goaltender. Brimsek would go on to win 252 games in goal, which gave him the record for winningest American-born netminder. His record would stand until February 15, 1994, when Tom Barrasso and the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Winnipeg Jets , 5-3, at

5796-418: The Yellow Jackets in the 1922–23 season, when they were only a .500 club, still played for the team during the 1923–24 season, however the following season he joined the Hornets. In their 1924–25 season, the Yellow Jackets finished their split regular season with a 15–3–2 first-half record for first place in the Western Group, followed by a 10–8–2 second-half record for second place in the west. After sweeping

5888-416: The campaign manager for Edward V. Babcock, who would go on to become Pittsburgh's mayor in 1918. After Babcock's victory, Schooley was made the city treasurer. He later became the superintendent for the city's bureau of recreation. In 1926, he helped elect John S. Fisher , Governor of Pennsylvania as well as assist Charles H. Kline in getting re-elected mayor of Pittsburgh. Schooley was then reappointed as

5980-437: The city's treasurer. However, he was forced from the Treasurer's Office in 1931, the result of a purchasing scandal. The failure of the Franklin Savings and Trust Company, brought forth an audit of the Treasurer's Office, since that office was in charge of distributing funds linked to the company. The audit revealed that the city's money was not protected by bonds, as required by law. Other irregularities soon developed which led to

6072-399: The colors, chest logo, and sleeve patches from the previous season's uniforms but changed the word above the "P" to read "Pirates". The team's colors gained new relevance decades later when the city's second NHL team, the Pittsburgh Penguins, wanted to change their uniform colors from blue and white to black and gold. When the change was protested by the Boston Bruins , the Penguins showcased

6164-413: The committee citing his "provocative illustrations that channeled cultural and historical references with expert artistry and an eye for hypocrisy and injustice." In 2020, the Post-Gazette prohibited its reporter Alexis Johnson from covering the George Floyd protests . The Post-Gazette said that Johnson, an African American , had shown bias by making a tweet that highlighted extensive littering from

6256-402: The establishment of the Shamrocks and established that the Garden's ice time would be split by the new IHL team and the Yellow Jackets, who became the newest members of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League. During his tenure as owner of the Yellow Jackets, John Harris made two notable decisions. First, on March 31, 1936, he hired Sonja Henie , 24-year-old Norwegian figure skater to perform before

6348-426: The front; the nickname "Yellow Jackets" appeared in the press by the next month. On the sleeves were patches in the form of the coat of arms of the city of Pittsburgh . A late version of the Yellow Jackets jersey featured a slanted and more angular "P" logo on the front and the word "Champions" cursively written above the "P". When the Yellow Jackets became the city's first NHL team, the Pittsburgh Pirates, they retained

6440-417: The full masthead name Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sun-Telegraph/The Pittsburgh Press . The Block ownership did not take this opportunity to address labor costs, which had led to sale of the Press . This would come back to haunt them and lead to financial problems (see "Financial Challenges" below). During the strike, publisher Richard Mellon Scaife expanded his paper, the Greensburg Tribune-Review , based in

6532-415: The intent of placing it in the Eastern Amateur Hockey League . This was the third hockey team in Pittsburgh to take the name Yellow Jackets, not including yet another team of the same name in a local commercial league. The team spent its shortened first season in early 1935 as an independent playing various exhibition games against other clubs. Then on October 29, 1935, the Montreal Gazette reported that

6624-557: The leading figure in several campaigns. He soon was put in charge of Joseph G. Armstrong 's 1913 mayoral bid. Once Armstrong was elected mayor in 1914, Schooley was given the title "Secretary to the Mayor". However, after a series of newspaper attacks against the Armstrong Administration, Schooley was transferred to the position of city clerk in charge of the Pittsburgh public works division. In 1917 Schooley became

6716-532: The naming rights to the facility and is now known as the KeyBank Pavilion . The newspaper once had ventures in television. In 1957, the Post-Gazette partnered with the H. Kenneth Brennen family, local radio owners, to launch WIIC-TV (now WPXI ) as the area's first full-time NBC affiliate. The Post-Gazette and the Brennens sold off the station to current owner Cox Enterprises in 1964. Although

6808-616: The paper charging unfair practices. As of March 2023 the strike had not been settled and the NLRB case was pending before an administrative law judge. As of January 2024, the unions were still on strike against the Post-Gazette. In April 2024 the National Labor Relations Board announced it was authorizing a request from the newspaper's unions to seek a temporary injunction against the Post-Gazette's ownership for violating workers' labor rights. The newspaper sponsored

6900-619: The paper purchased a new distribution facility in suburban Findlay Township, Pennsylvania . In 2015 the paper moved into a new, state-of-the-art office building on the North Shore on a portion of the former site of Three Rivers Stadium , ending 53 years in the former Press building and more than two centuries in Downtown. Block Communications sold the Downtown Post-Gazette building in 2019 to DiCicco Development, Inc.,

6992-475: The paper was handled by the larger Press office. This agreement stayed in place for over 30 years. The agreement gave the Post-Gazette a new home in the Press building, a comfortable upgrade from the hated "Sun-Telly barn". Constructed for the Press in 1927 and expanded with a curtain wall in 1962, the building served as the Post-Gazette headquarters until 2015. On May 17, 1992, a strike by workers for

7084-406: The paper was in terrible financial shape. It was around the time of Hanukkah , and Shribman quipped, "It seemed there was only enough oil in this newspaper to keep the light on for one year." In September 2006 the paper disclosed that it was experiencing financial challenges, largely related to its labor costs. The paper also disclosed it had not been profitable since printing had resumed in 1993. As

7176-574: The paper, merging it six years later with The Pittsburg Times to form The Gazette Times . The Pittsburgh Post first appeared on September 10, 1842, as the Daily Morning Post . It had its origin in three pro- Democratic weeklies, the Mercury , Allegheny Democrat , and American Manufacturer , which came together through a pair of mergers in the early 1840s. The three papers had for years engaged in bitter editorial battles with

7268-527: The rest of the week. In the 2010s, the editorial tone of the paper shifted from liberal to conservative , particularly after the editorial pages of the paper were consolidated in 2018 with The Blade of Toledo, Ohio . After the consolidation, Keith Burris, the pro- Trump editorial page editor of The Blade , directed the editorial pages of both papers. Copies are sold for $ 4 daily (Thursdays) and $ 6 Sundays/Thanksgiving Day in-state. This includes Allegheny and adjacent counties. Prices are higher outside

7360-627: The second-half winner Eveleth Arrowheads in the group playoff, the Jackets moved on to the league finals against their in-city rivals the Fort Pitt Hornets, who had won the Eastern Group. The favored Yellow Jackets defeated the Hornets three games to none, with one tie, to retain the Fellowes Cup. The Yellow Jackets stopped playing after the USAHA folded at the end of the 1924–25 season. When Duquesne Garden president Henry Townsend

7452-420: The silver medal by overwhelming all of their opponents except for Canada's gold medalist Winnipeg Falcons , to whom they lost 2–0. In late October, 1920, the United States Amateur Hockey Association was formed, with Schooley and William S. Haddock serving as co-founders and respectively acting as the league's secretary-treasurer and president. The team that had been playing under the PAA banner reorganized as

7544-480: The sport was about to debut as an Olympic competition at the 1920 Games in Antwerp , Belgium , the PAA won a three-team American tournament (with Boston AA and St. Paul AC ) that was originally supposed to determine which one of the clubs would be sent intact to the Olympics to represent the United States. However, as it became clear that no team had enough US-eligible players to furnish a full Olympic roster, it

7636-437: The state. PG staff have been on strike since October 2022. The Post-Gazette began its history as a four-page weekly called The Pittsburgh Gazette , first published on July 29, 1786, with the encouragement of Hugh Henry Brackenridge . It was the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains . Published by Joseph Hall and John Scull, the paper covered the start of the nation. As one of its first major articles,

7728-527: The team's captain. However $ 15,000 was still need to fund the team's trip to Antwerp, so Schooley used the Duquesne Gardens as the source of the funds. His intent was to play two series of two games each against "worthy" opponents at the Gardens. The first series on March 22–23 would be against the Winnipegs, while an opponent remained to be named for March 29–30 games. All money beyond the guarantee paid to

7820-585: The visitors and "bare overhead expenses" would go to the Olympic team. Even though Schooley formed the team and managed them up until they left for the Games, he did not represent them during the Olympics. Three days before the team was to depart for Antwerp to begin Olympic play, the New York Post reported that Schooley had resigned as manager amid rumors of unspecified friction, which he denied. He cited

7912-462: Was a nice place." This leads one to believe that money was paid out to top players in the league. The eastern teams of USAHA soon imported Canadian players,to add to their rosters of local players. In 1923, Schooley had invited Lionel Conacher , a future Hall of Famer , to come and ref in Pittsburgh in February 1923, "to see if the crowd would take to him". Schooley then asked Conacher to play with

8004-486: Was claimed to be the hockey champion of the world, though this claim was not officially or widely recognized. After its first season, the Duquesne Garden exhibition team established an affiliation with the Pittsburgh Athletic Association (PAA), a private athletic and social club, adopting that organization's name, colors, and "Winged Head" insignia. The team finished its 1916–17 campaign with

8096-539: Was credited with helping to organize a local chapter of the new Republican Party , and with contributing to the election of Abraham Lincoln . The paper was one of the first to suggest tensions between North and South would erupt in war. After consolidating with the Commercial in 1877, the paper was again renamed and was then known as the Commercial Gazette . In 1900, George T. Oliver acquired

8188-628: Was decided to choose representatives from all three of the teams. Four of the eleven selections were from the PAA: Herb Drury , Joe McCormick (who was appointed US team captain), Larry McCormick, and Ray Bonney , all but the last of whom were born in Canada but had acquired US citizenship. PAA manager Schooley, who assembled the Olympic team, said that the PAA's Manners, McCrimmon, and Ed Nagle , who were also Canadian-born, would have been worthy of inclusion had they been eligible. The Americans won

8280-463: Was granted an NHL expansion team for the following season, he filled it with the former Yellow Jackets players. The NHL team took the name Pittsburgh Pirates from the baseball club , something the new NFL team would also do eight years later. The team wore black and yellow uniforms that largely resembled the Yellow Jackets' outfits from the previous season. The Pirates made it to the NHL semifinals within

8372-842: Was praised for its "immersive, compassionate coverage." In 1997, Bill Moushey won the National Press Club ’s Freedom of Information Award on a series investigating the Federal Witness Protection Program and was a finalist for the Pulitzer. The Post-Gazette also won the Wilbur Award from the Religion Communicators Council (RCC) in 2017 for religion editor Peter Smith's work, Silent Sanctuaries . Smith, Stephanie Strasburg, and Shelly Bradbury were finalists for

8464-425: Was reported that the defunct Pittsburgh Pirates would be returning to the NHL for the upcoming season . The news put the Yellow Jackets in limbo, since the Pirates still held territorial rights and could deny the team permission to operate. However the trust company that owned the Jackets had the right to deny the NHL team the right to play at Duquesne Gardens. However the optimism was short-lived and on October 1, 1932

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