Allegheny County property tax compromise passes
Dec 3, 2024 · Allegheny County Council ended a two-month budget stalemate Tuesday, voting to raise the county property tax by 1.7 mills, or $1.70 per $1,000 in assessed value, to fund a $1.17 billion operating budget for 2025.
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Allegheny County voter guide 2024: Who’s on the ballot?
Oct 8, 2024 · Voting details. For details about how to vote in your county, visit your county’s elections website. Mail-in voting is underway, and voters can apply for a mail-in ballot through Oct. 29.; On Election Day, Nov. 5, polls are open statewide from 7 a.m. through 8 p.m. Voters can return mail-in ballots to their county through 8 p.m. that day.
Chronic absenteeism in PPS has been gradually decreasing
Dec 3, 2024 · Key takeaways from the report: Shrinking student body, concentrated poverty. The district has lost more than 6,000 students in the last decade and is weighing potential closures and consolidations starting in 2026.Racial and economic disparities in schools have contributed to disproportionate achievement levels and uneven access to resources among students.
Allegheny County outlines winter homeless shelter plan
Oct 21, 2024 · Allegheny County will reopen the central homeless shelter in Downtown Pittsburgh later this month, less than half a year after a fire led authorities to close Second Avenue Commons, officials announced while outlining winter shelter plans.
Trans rights, care in the balance in presidential race
Oct 21, 2024 · Down-ballot races could influence access, too: Twenty-six states have enacted laws limiting youth access to gender-affirming care. Though Pennsylvania isn’t among them, Republican members of the state House of Representatives have introduced legislation this year proposing legal protection for any parent who won’t consent to this kind of care for their child.
Healing stories could turn the page for Pittsburgh’s Hill District
Oct 4, 2024 · In 1994, I moved into the historic Hill District, a neighborhood often considered to be the cultural soul of Black Pittsburgh. I lived a short walk from Freedom Corner, an inspiring monument at Centre Avenue and Crawford Street.
Longtime Downtown home of Pittsburgh agencies sold for housing
Oct 10, 2024 · A Downtown Pittsburgh building predating the Great War is set to be sold to a nonprofit and turned into affordable housing and office space. The John P. Robin Civic Building, at 200 Ross St., contained the offices of the Urban Redevelopment Authority [URA] and other government entities for more than half a century beginning in 1952.
McCormick clinches Senate seat in tight win over Casey
Nov 7, 2024 · HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican David McCormick has won Pennsylvania’s pivotal U.S. Senate seat, as the former CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund beat three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in Tuesday’s election after accusing the incumbent of supporting policies that led to inflation, domestic turmoil and war.. The battleground state contest pads Republicans’ majority in the ...
Pittsburgh conference: With youth crime down, reform justice
Oct 18, 2024 · The conference Friday featured keynote speakers Charles Puzzanchera of the National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Program and reintegration specialist Ray Miles, plus panels on generational trauma, youth homelessness, employment challenges, substance use harm reduction, youth services and diversion of young people from detention.