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Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey unveiled his first city budget proposal Friday. It calls for a 7% increase in 2023 compared to what the city is spending in 2022.
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Students will now have access to about 40 local companies where they can job shadow and complete other training, Mayor Ed Gainey announced Friday.
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Pittsburgh City Council must approve the settlement before the matter can be resolved.
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The program will absorb participants' cost of riding the bus, light rail, scooters, city bikes and Zipcars for one year.
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Mayor Gainey talks OnePGH, police staffing levels, and Pittsburgh Public Schools’ new superintendentOn today’s episode of The Confluence: We learn what options the city might pursue to work with tax-exempt organizations, now that ties with OnePGH have been severed; and what’s new in the second edition of “100 Things To Do In Pittsburgh Before You Die.”Today’s guests include: Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey; and Rossilynne Culgan, journalist and author.
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On today’s episode of The Confluence: Lawmakers in Harrisburg are looking at the upcoming budget and what do to with a surplus of funds; and as the city is planning to open its first needle exchange — which will offer clean supplies to those using drugs — we learn what additional supports are needed. Today’s guests include: Sam Dunklau, WESA’s Capitol Bureau Chief; Kiley Koscinski, WESA reporter; Laura Drogowski, a manager in the Pittsburgh Office of Community Health and Safety; and Joshua Schneider, an Overdose Prevention Coordinator in the Pittsburgh Office of Community Health & Safety.
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The Gainey administration has not elaborated on the legal concerns that led it to drop the idea. But because the program would have required half of participants to be Black women, a conservative advocacy group based in Dallas accused it of unconstitutional discrimination.
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On today’s episode of The Confluence: A new study finds a third of children nationwide are “underinsured,” meaning families, even with health insurance, could experience inadequate coverage; and Pittsburgh City Council has approved legislation to give employees their full pension, removing a 17-year-old policy that reduced pension benefits for some.
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On today’s episode of The Confluence: The Peduto administration has proposed creating an Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs to city council, which could expand services the Welcoming Pittsburgh initiative has put in place; Rev. Dr. Ketlen Solak will soon be installed as the first woman and person of color to become a bishop in the Pittsburgh Episcopal Diocese; and a look at how the disrupted global supply chain is affecting local breweries and distilleries.
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On today’s episode of The Confluence: Mayor-elect Ed Gainey joins The Confluence to explain the priorities he’ll take on while in office, ranging from creating a diverse administration to advocating for more community policing; and a look at labor challenges facing the state’s agriculture industry as the average age of farmers rises.