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Monday, Dec. 21, 2020 5:35 p.m. | Monday, Dec. 21, 2020 5:35 p.m. Bethani Cameron, 38, of Pittsburgh’s Overbook neighborhood, announced Monday that she is running as a Democrat from Pittsburgh City Council’s 4th District.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Describing herself as a “public servant and single mom,” Bethani Cameron announced Monday she will challenge Pittsburgh City Councilman Anthony Coghill in the May 2021 Democratic primary for his District 4 council seat. Cameron, 38, of Overbrook, ...

Screenshot via Zoom   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. A 2021 Pittsburgh budget adopted by city council Monday is a “stop-gap” plan that is balanced and will need to be revised depending upon whether federal covid relief is ever approved for cities, Councilman R. Daniel Lavelle said. Although it doesn’t include a 50% cut in funding to the police department, the spending plan represents the city’s response to calls for police reform, increased funding for social services and housing, Lavelle said. �...

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Pittsburgh will spend $50,000 to provide cultural competency training under a proposal Mayor Bill Peduto’s office introduced Monday. The city and Peduto’s Office of Equity plan to partner with Pittsburgh-based Cultural Humility and Equity Collaborative to create a program for the city’s Department of Public Safety. The idea is to train police, fire and other public safety workers about how to best deal with the city’s immigrant and refugee population, the city said. T...

“We wanted to hold something so the public could feel they had time to speak,” council President Theresa Kail-Smith said. People can register to speak by filling out a form here. They can register until noon Saturday and can watch the meeting on the city’s YouTube channel. The 2021 budget of $564 million doesn’t increase taxes and will require the city to lay off more than 630 people unless it receives $26 million in federal aid for coronavirus relief. Such aid has been lobbied for by Mayor Bill Peduto and has been in some relief proposals in Congress. The comments from residents that...

Screenshot via Zoom Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto speaks during a virtual meeting Friday where he accepted a first place climate protection award from the U.S. Conference of Mayors.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Pittsburgh’s efforts to purchase all of its energy from renewable resources using the Western Pennsylvania Energy Consortium have netted the city top honors among large cities in the 2020 Climate Protection Awards presented Friday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Mayor Bill Peduto was called...