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Thousands of Pittsburghers take to the streets against President Donald Trump - Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Austin Davis takes the mic after a march to the City-County Building from Freedom Corner on June 14. The "No Kings" protest was against the deportations by masked immigration officers, against the military parade in Washington and against the budget bill that would cut medicade and food stamps, along with other programs for low-income Americans, and give huge tax cuts to billionaires. Find out more about what's happening in Pittsburgh and the East End by picking up Print at one of our retailers. Never miss another issue by subscribing to Print today.
From the June issue...
Water authority rebrands then files for rate hike
Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority will retain that name legally, but its new doing business as name will be Pittsburgh Water after a $400,000 rebranding process including a study of what customers call it (most call it PWSA with "the water company" in second place), and a media campaign mostly on internet sites and radio stations, though it did include 300 polka dot beach balls. Pictured above is the authority's graphic for the new brand.
Then the authority filed for a 35% rate hike for residential customers and more than 60% for industrial customers, which would bring the bigger users into line with what residents are paying for water because industry has been paying less for years.​
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School board ready for first vote on closure plan ​
It will take a series of votes over the next year and months of public hearings to close schools, but the The Pittsburgh Public Schools Board of Directors is ready to take the first step on June 25 during its legislative session. The district has had a tough time figuring out the feeder pattern in the East End with the first plan to have Part of Point Breeze attending Westinghouse High School, then changing it wo they will attend Allderdice and the students from Lincoln-Lemington-Blmar who would have gone to Obama Academy will attend Westinghouse. If the plan goes through, the first schools that could close would be for the 2026-2027 school year.​​
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Nonprofit takes properties
to bring back Homewood​​
A request for qualifications and proposals went out for developers interested in renovating existing abandoned homes or building new in Homewood.
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Rising Tide Partners, an offshoot of East Liberty Development Inc., has used a court process known as conservatorship to take possession of abandoned properties and turn them over for development.​
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Read more about it in the June issue of Print.
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