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Doylestown, PA is considering an anti-discrimination ordinance, potentially becoming the 17th PA municipality to do so. The next three Borough Council meetings – Monday, June 21, Monday, July 19, and Monday, August 16 – are watershed moments in Doylestown! Your progressive voices on Council are promoting an ordinance to bar discrimination in our community. Meanwhile, […]
What a tough year for Joe Sestak and Dan Onorato. Philly and Pittsburgh Pride are on the same days. Onorato made the good call to attend Pittsburgh's event, but Sestak is in Philly. Sestak is sending a surrogate to Pgh, but I think it might speak volumes as to whom he sends. As I said […]
You know I love the man called Potter. His awesomeness is exceeded only by his 27 Facebook fans. 😉 Still, he recently gave some pinkwashing props to the Onorato campaign that made me sigh. From Slagheap: In other news, you may have already known this– word went out a couple days ago — but county […]
Oh, for God's sake … The state Ethics Commission and the city Ethics Hearing Board will not review Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's nomination of his brother to the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority board, despite requests sent by local officials. Mayor Ravenstahl nominated his brother, newly elected state Rep. Adam Ravenstahl, to the Alcosan board on […]
Dr. Jillian Weiss is someone I admire greatly. I've been in touch with her for months, trying my best to contribute to the passage of the Employment Non Discrimination Act on the federal level. I was part of the ground troops getting commitments from our local electeds and I've written about it quite a bit. So […]
I am tired after a long day so I'll save my Dyke March 2010 reflections for Sunday. I have posted photos on my Facebook page if you'd like to check them out. Overall, the event was great. The move to Bloomfield was genius for visibility … tons of people came out on the streets and […]
Well, today is the day. This afternoon at say 2:45 PM, we'll see if our “fierce allies” in City Hall were able to finally resolve the issue of police protecton and allow women who don't typically attend fundraisers and public meetings the safety to exercise their first amendment rights? Don't get me wrong — I […]
While I am heartened to learn about the recommendations of the Human Relations Commission to extend domestic partner benefits to Allegheny County employees, I must admit wondering what the next hurdle will be? I don't enjoy being cynical on this topic. My heart feels for the employees left in limbo because the process has taken six […]
As always, I get very excited when folks write about stuff in the PG letters section. Average folks exercising their First Amendment muscles … what better way to start a Saturday! This one made me snort my coffee: Bring in his brother Regarding Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's 311 line: It's annoying that we, Pittsburgh taxpayers, must […]
Yesterday, the Allegheny County Human Relations Commission made a formal recommendation that Allegheny County provide domestic partner benefits to County employees … Whereas the City of Pittsburgh has made domestic partner health benefits available to its employees for approximately a decade, and, Whereas in recent years benefits of this nature have been made available by […]
