Happy Monday Early Returners! And happy tax day. Today we bring you stories from the South Side to Santiago in another International Breakfast Sausage edition. Pictured: hallulla, a typical disk-shaped Chilean bread, and avocado. 

1. First, Rich Lord connects the dots between a Pittsburgh Housing Authority contract for landscaping and a former housing authority employee who left his job in 2003 after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published a story about his federal drug convictions. The man is also linked to a bar on the South Side, S-Bar.

2. Karen Langley is in Santiago, Chile, with Gov. Tom Corbett. She writes about herding cats, a.k.a. planning trade missions. 

3. From Sunday, Tim McNulty has a superb profile on mayoral candidate Jake Wheatley, a state senator and former Marine. 

4. Speaking of tax day, Pirates writer Michael Sanserino brings us this fascinating piece on the complexity of tax bills for professional athletes, who are forced to pay taxes in nearly all of the cities where they split the uprights, smack a slap shot, or get swept by the Dodgers. But before you pull out your tiny violin, take this into consideration:

But while a few extra filings this time of the year are a small price to pay for salaries that can soar well into the millions, it's not just the athletes who are stuck with a complicated tax bill. Any employee who travels with the team, which includes coaches, broadcasters, equipment managers and scouts, is subject to the same tax requirements.

Happy Monday Early Returners! Today, we bring you stories from the South Side to Santiago, Chile.

1. The Pittsburgh Housing Authority hired a recently formed company connected to a drug felon to train residents to cut grass, Rich Lord found

In its lead sketch last night, "Saturday Night Live" skewered the Pat Toomey/Joe Manchin gun background check plan, portraying the bipartisan bill as ineffectual -- though it does ban AK-47s from vending machines.

From the Hollwood Reporter recap:

The compromising senators went on to tout their plan in a list that ended up being a catalogue their failures. Manchin said they were hoping to limit the amount of ammunition that could be kept in a magazine.

"We did not do that," he said.

Toomey said no one can buy a handgun unless asked "are you a good person?" He added the plan would limit the number of guns one can shoot at one time to two, though oddly enough the penalty for shooting three guns at once is a free, fourth gun. But on the plus side, the compromise banned AK-47s from coin-operated vending machines, though none of the restrictions applied in Florida.

Bill Peduto launched his first ad of the primary campaign Friday.  It evokes his immigrant roots through a scene of the quarry where his great-grandfather worked, and the site of the former J&L steel mill where his grandfather labored.   Those images of the past merge with his vision of the future as he says, "My life's work is building a new Pitsburgh.''

The 30-second spot concludes with the councilman looking into the camera, saying, "We need a mayor who never forgets what we can be.''