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Pennsylvania will receive $2.1 million to help people navigate the health insurance exchange expected to open Oct. 1.

The money will go to community groups expected to hire people to raise awareness and help people use the exchange, which is part of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. The exchange will be an online marketplace intended to enable people to shop for a health insurance plan and pair them with government subsidies to make it affordable.

Beth Pittinger, the executive director of Pittsburgh's Citizens Police Review Board, says she has one hope for this year's mayoral election.

"What I hope is that we get a new mayor who first and foremost demonstrates a political will to support the work of the board," Pittinger says. "I think that sort of public endorsement is long overdue."

How do you make a city awesome? Start by putting ten people in a room and asking them to drop a hundred bucks on the table. Then put out the call to the city at large: “Send us your best ideas.”

That's the strategy behind Awesome Pittsburgh, part of the the global Awesome Foundation that Matt Gaston, and Mike Capsambelis, Google project manager, brought it to town.

WAYNESBURG –- Greene County commissioners approved an agreement Thursday with an outside firm to conduct an audit of the county’s merit-based hiring system.

The independent audit conducted by Felice Associates of Greensburg is geared to ensure hiring practices in Greene County are fair and equitable. Felice Associates will perform the audit at a rate of $150 an hour.

The A+ Schools coalition has been working with Pittsburgh Public Schools in recent years to promote equitable distribution of resources to all schools across the district.

CUMBERLAND TWP. — Supervisors on Monday released the township’s unconventional gas well fund usage report.

The report requires municipalities receiving disbursements of revenue raised from impact fees provided through the state Act 13 gas drilling law to itemize and categorize their allocations of the revenue.