State lawmakers are holding up funding for Pitt. Here’s what that means for local families.
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This week: Eli Kurs-Lasky on the reality of Disability Pride ([link removed]) in a society that has few accommodations for people with disabilities. Pennsylvania's stalemate over funding ([link removed]) Pitt, PSU and Temple means tuition uncertainty for thousands of families.
Also a long-awaited report commissioned by Mayor Ed Gainey ([link removed]) says that Pittsburgh’s police budgets for far more patrol officers than it needs.
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** State lawmakers are holding up funding for Pitt. Here’s what that means. ([link removed])
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** Attorneys applaud ‘first step’ toward fix for Allegheny County’s cut-rate court-appointed lawyer system ([link removed])
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** Consultants give Gainey plan to fix ‘overstaffed’ police, but new chief disagrees ([link removed])
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