Good morning.

1. If you're driving anywhere in Pittsburgh Saturday, you might as well leave now.

2. A Pittsburgh public safety chief facing questions over ties to an outside firm without the knowledge of his bosses? Man, that sounds familiar.

3. Speaking of familiarity, state Rep. Jesse White at first denied trolling pro-gas constituents on chat boards but then fessed up to it in a statement issued by Democratic leadership yesterday.

4. This is called transition: partially due to the natural gas industry "Pittsburgh is becoming a boom town," writes MSN Money.

5. The nearly $5 billion Smithfield ham sale to a Chinese firm is causing existential angst down on the Virginia/North Carolina border.

Mayor Luke Ravenstahl hasn't held many public appearances  around Pittsburgh lately, but he did appear on today in a new segment from CBS News.

A report broadcast on CBS This Morning concerned non-profit hospitals that make a lot of money, and naturally used UPMC as its main example. Correspondent Terrell Brown interviewed the mayor in his conference room in the City-County Building (it was conducted the first week of April) and his report borrows heavily from Ravenstahl's March 20 suit challenging the health provider's charitable status, listing CEO Jeffrey Romoff's high salary and perks (private chef, etc), and noting it has closed hospitals in struggling neighborhoods while opening them in richer ones.

The network was denied an interview with CEO Jeffrey Romoff. UPMC spokesman Paul Wood went on local KDKA Radio this morning to rebut the report, calling it "a dump of a one-sided advocacy promoting the mayor's agenda. It's filled with all kinds of factually incorrect information."

Michelle Bachmann leaving, the Blackhawks winning — disturbances in the Force are all around us today.

1. Black leaders want the city to stop bulldozing houses in Homewood, arguing it's creating a neighborhood without neighbors. City councilman Ricky Burgess says he's been crafting an alternative plan on his own.

2. I enjoyed the long cut of City Paper editor Chris Potter's interview with Bill Peduto, where they talk about the two times on election night Peduto teared up and how winning the election is about as exciting as getting your deck fixed.

3. KDKA tries to nail down whether a state representative has been trolling pro-fracking commenters on local sites. Apparently, the IP address for the comments matches his computer. He had no comment.

4. Family members of late Penn State coach Joe Paterno say they will file suit against the NCAA, which banned the Nittany Lions from post-season play for four years and vacated 13 years of Penn State's wins. Once again, they're bashing a university report that concluded Joe Paterno had some knowledge of an incident involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky and a small boy.

5. LOL at this: A proposal in the state Senate would create a licensing system for interior designers, PA Independent's Melissa Daniels reports. “Anyone can hold themselves out to be an interior designer regardless of their education or background,” reads a memo seeking co-sponsors for the proposed bill. “This can be problematic as interior design is much more than just paint colors, furniture placement and material swatches.”

Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Hanger this morning rolled out his eight-point strategic jobs plan, which he says will bring more than 380,000 jobs to Pennsylvania and raise more than $8 billion in funding.

Hanger called for investment in public education, development of alternative energy sources and new environmental protections in order to boost the state economy.

"We need a pragmatic mix of markets, public investment and public-private cooperation to restore our job market to full employment and restore our economy," he said.

Hanger, a secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection under Gov. Ed Rendell, is one of several Democrats seeking to challenge Gov. Tom Corbett in 2014. U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz of Montgomery County has announced a bid, along with former Rendell DEP secretary Katie McGinty, former revenue secretary Tom Wolf and Cumberland County pastor Max Myers.

Speaking at a Capitol press conference, Hanger said his policies could create 215,000 jobs by boosting the state's share of education funding, increasing state investment in roads, bridges and public transportation by $2.5 billion a year, rebuilding aging sewer and water systems and accepting $4 billion worth of federal funding for Medicaid expansion.

"We can begin to raise revenues first by simply saying 'yes' to the federal government's offer of $4 billion a year for 10 years to expand Medicaid," he said. "With a simple yes we can increase our state economy by a full percent."

Along with these things, Hanger wants to amend mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent crimes, double the state's capacity to produce renewable energy and expand the Growing Greener initiative to protect the environment.

Hanger proposed enacting new taxes on natural gas drilling, smokeless tobacco and cigars, expanding the state lottery and borrowing money from state bonds.

"Raising new revenues must be a part of any jobs creation plan," he said. "This plan raises $8 billion annually from new revenues from federal reimbursements, state taxes and user fees."