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We closed out this week at PublicSource with a story about Mark Steidl, a 29-year-old from Highland Park with cerebral palsy. Steidl, who uses a Tobii Dynavox communication device to talk in an electronic voice, is a disability and LGBT rights activist, works in technical support for a company that makes communication devices — and this summer, co-wrote an opera. Read more about their experimental opera here.

Also this week, we wrote about the future rebirth of a Downtown building as affordable housing, Sara Innamorato's proposed budget that includes a property tax increase and how past Pittsburgh Public Schools closures still haunt the city's West Side. 

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Mark can’t talk independently, but co-wrote — and stars in — a new opera
 

From ‘upsetting’ to affordable: Historic former home of steelmaker and city agencies heading for rebirth as housing
 

Innamorato eyes property tax hike to balance Allegheny County budget
 

Past PPS closures still haunt district parents. Families worry they’ll go through it again.
 
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