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Among the objectors to a petition to annex the borough into the city is Wilkinsburg itself.
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The latest attempt to annex Wilkinsburg into the City of Pittsburgh is facing new objections that the law guiding the process is no longer in effect.
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If a referendum is approved it would create a seven-member government study commission to analyze Wilkinsburg’s current government and make recommendations, which could include a new home rule charter. Supporters of a proposed merger with Pittsburgh say the commission's creation is meant to delay a potential annexation.
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Police and students from Pitt's School of Social Work have helped respond to calls for issues like domestic violence and mental health crises.
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A man accused killing five people and an unborn baby in Wilkinsburg in 2016 filed a lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday against Allegheny County and Pittsburgh law enforcement.
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Council will begin a series of meetings and studies to better understand how annexing the borough into the city will effect finances, services and other matters.
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A bill introduced to Pittsburgh City Council Tuesday could terminate an effort to annex Wilkinsburg into the City of Pittsburgh.
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On today’s episode of The Confluence: WESA’s Kiley Koscinski gives an update on what’s next now that a judge approved the petition for a ballot question on the annexation of Wilkinsburg; we discuss how worker shortages and reduced services due to the pandemic are impacting the economy; and, the Frick Pittsburgh’s Victorian Radicals exhibition, which showcases artists who challenged norms in the second-half of the 19th century.
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The Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas pushed the process to annex Wilkinsburg into the City of Pittsburgh forward Tuesday, the same day Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald endorsed the effort.
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The nonprofit promoting the annexation of Wilkinsburg into the City of Pittsburgh has submitted a petition to the courts to begin the process.