Mayor Ed Gainey posted a video to his social media accounts Thursday afternoon where he called District Attorney Stephen Zappala a “racist.”

While there’s more than enough dysfunction to go around in the Gainey administration, as this week’s resignation of Acting Police Chief Christopher Ragland demonstrated, an unusual share of that dysfunction has been related to the city’s Department of Law.

After the sudden resignation of Acting Chief Christopher Ragland, Mayor Ed Gainey said the process became too much for him.

Pittsburgh's two Democratic candidates for mayor are trading barbs over just who is funding their campaigns. Mayor Ed Gainey says mega-donors to President Trump are pouring money into Allegheny County Controller Corey O'Connor's campaign, an allegation O'Connor calls desperate.

The boundary between national politics and local politics, like so many boundaries these days, is getting blurry.

The Democrats competing in Pittsburgh’s May 20 mayoral primary traded criticism over their donors on Monday, after Mayor Ed Gainey blasted Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Connor for reports tying O’Connor to Republican contributors.

Republican donors are getting involved in a clash between progressives in Pittsburgh, backing Mayor Ed Gainey’s challenger Corey O’Connor.

Pittsburgh’s acting police chief, Chris Ragland, is leaving the force, effective immediately. Ragland was Mayor Ed Gainey’s nominee for Pittsburgh’s next police chief. But now, he’s expected to move into the private sector with a national firm, according to a statement from the Mayor.