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Happy New Year! We hope you had a restful and jolly holiday season.
Our staff is back and not skipping a beat. A PublicSource team will cover the inauguration of incoming Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato. Be on the look out for that story later today.
Until then, read today’s story on whether Innamorato can live in peace with a lively county council ([link removed]) . ⬇️
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** Innamorato faces an Allegheny County Council that clashed with her predecessor ([link removed])
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The new Allegheny County executive has urgent problems from homelessness to the environment. She inherits a government system with a deep internal feud.
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** NOT TO MISS
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** In 2023, Pittsburgh and Allegheny county news overflowed — and the shelters did, too ([link removed])
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** Beechview merchants hope immigration, transit — maybe even witchcraft? — will prove a magic formula for Broadway Avenue ([link removed])
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** Los comerciantes de Beechview esperan que la inmigración, el tránsito – ¿y quizás hasta la brujería? – demostrarán ser la fórmula mágica para la Avenida Broadway ([link removed])
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* In Beechview, doctors from Salud Para Niños — a bilingual pediatric clinic at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh — team up with staffers from local nonprofit Casa San José to provide primary care to uninsured kids. Read the story in both English ([link removed]) and Spanish ([link removed]) .
* Since 2021, Beechview-based Casa San José met nine times with state legislators to advocate for undocumented residents to receive in-state tuition and state financial aid. Did it work? Read the story in both English ([link removed]) and Spanish ([link removed]) .
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** What's Ahead in 2024? The Cookie Cutters May Tell. ([link removed].)
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** A cream horn debacle brought revelation about expectations and people with intellectual disabilities ([link removed])
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