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Candidates for the North Side's District 1 Pittsburgh City Council seat met to discuss various issues, including drinking water, policing and housing. The current City Councilwoman did not attend.
Fourteen months ago, Pittsburgh City Council set aside $2 million to support early childhood education in the city. On Tuesday, officials introduced a plan for how the money can be spent. What exactly will the pot of money provide? Why did it take this long to come up with a plan? And how does it factor into the city’s goal of universal pre-K, where all families would have access to high-quality preschool?
Discussion topics include his policy agenda, legislative accomplishments, lessons learned and his plans for the upcoming City Council race for his District 9 seat.
As vice chair of the the Urban Redevelopment Authority [URA] Board of Directors, State Rep. Ed Gainey is hopeful a new program managed by the authority will get some Pittsburghers off the treadmill of renting and into affordable housing they themselves own.
Five years into being mayor, has Pittsburgh seen results from Mayor Bill Peduto’s ideas?
Six longtime, mid-level employees of the City of Pittsburgh were informed their positions were set to be eliminated from the 2018 budget. According to legal documents and sources, the employees’ respective supervisors called them in for meetings in September 2017 to tell them they wouldn’t have jobs in the new year and asked them to not tell anyone.
After proposing cuts to the Urban Redevelopment Authority's housing programs, Pittsburgh City Council voted to restore some of its funding on Wednesday.
Pittsburgh City Council recently created a new system for community groups to become Registered Community Organizations but some have concerns about the law
Piggybacking can save governments money and time by allowing them to bypass the sometimes protracted steps of negotiation and approvals. But, according to some critics, with fewer checks and balances built in, piggybacking contracts make it difficult to know if local governments are getting good deals and if they are being responsible stewards of taxpayer money. Critics also say the practice can open up governments to fraud.
Voters across Allegheny County narrowly rejected a ballot initiative on Tuesday that would have raised property taxes by a quarter mill to funnel $18 million annually to children’s programs.
