{"id":107631,"date":"2026-02-07T04:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107631\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T04:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:13:13","slug":"former-pittsburgh-mayor-ed-gainey-named-commissioner-for-pennsylvania-gaming-control-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107631\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey named commissioner for Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Former Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey has a new job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Gainey, who served as a state representative from East Liberty before becoming mayor four years ago, has been named as a commissioner for the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Gainey lost his reelection bid to current mayor Corey O\u2019Connor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board regulates and ensures the integrity of legalized gambling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Gainey was appointed by the speaker of the House to replace former state Rep. Frank Dermody. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The new job pays $145,000 per year, but it will also put him on track again for a state pension. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Former Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey has a new job. Gainey, who served as a state representative&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[869,10882,27850,35104,51764,10881,3824,84,139,859,51762,73,75,74,2639,2638,51763,420,860],"class_list":["post-107631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-channel_11","tag-corey_oconnor","tag-east_liberty","tag-ed_gainey","tag-frank_dermondi","tag-gainey","tag-gordon","tag-mayor","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-pennsylvania_gaming_control_board","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rick","tag-rick_earl","tag-speaker_of_the_house","tag-video","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}