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Allegheny County Council on Tuesday reelected Pat Catena as its president. Catena, D-Carnegie, secured an overwhelming, and bipartisan, victory. The vote was 13-2, with 12 Democrats supporting him along with Republican Councilwoman Suzanne Filiaggi, of Franklin Park. Democratic Councilman DeWitt Walton of Pittsburgh’s Hill District nominated himself and also received
Allegheny County employees will have a new minimum wage starting next year and that wage will eventually increase to $20 an hour. The law will set $20 an hour as the minimum wage for county workers by 2026. There would be incremental increases to $18 an hour next year and
Fitzgerald is sitting on $2.2 million in unspent campaign funds and a phone full of numbers from people who can give him more — with no campaign of his own to spend it on.
The race for Allegheny County Council’s at-large Democratic seat took an ugly turn on Wednesday morning.
County council introduced the new ordinances at a meeting Tuesday and sent them to the committee on government reform for further consideration.