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Despite a last-ditch plea from the leader of the city’s Commission on Human Relations, Pittsburgh City Council members Tuesday approved a revision to a law protecting city residents from discrimination because of their hairstyles. The revision removes language that extends protection to beards and other facial hair.
“We must value people,” Jam Hammond, acting director of the Commission on Human Relations, told council members.
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Pittsburgh City Council members are moving forward with legislation to prevent evictions in the city during the covid-19 pandemic.
At its committee hearing on Wednesday, council will further discuss the ordinance that puts into place a moratorium on evictions as long as the city’s pandemic emergency is in place. It was introduced by Councilwoman Deb Gross, who drafted the legislation with help from several other city officials.
The ordinance is co-sponsored by council members Anthony Coghill, R. Daniel Lavelle, Bobby Wilson, Bruce Kraus and Corey O’Connor.
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Pittsburgh’s Mellon Park is nearing designation as a historic site by city officials, with no one opposed to it.
Instead, people have been wondering why the 33-acre park in the city’s Point Breeze neighborhood hadn’t achieved the designation long ago.
“People were surprised it had no protections whatsoever,” said Elizabeth Seamans, president of Friends of Mellon Park. Her organization helped work through the process of attaining the designation.
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