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Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce to persuade voters to support passage of the Regional Renaissance Initiative, a proposed sales tax increase for eleven counties to generate funding for economic development projects in the region; however, voters failed
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Crowther and Sam Katz of EnterSport Advisors in Bala Cynwyd, who said the funding generated by the measure's passage would have helped to rehabilitate sports stadiums statewide. Supporters of the measure also stated that the funding raised by the sales tax would have been used to improve
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Greater Pittsburgh area as a child, McNees was the daughter of a mill worker. She earned a certificate from the Tobe Coburn School of Fashion in New York, and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree by
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Pittsburgh's cultural district and downtown areas. Later that same year, she was elected to the board of directors of the Urban League of
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in New York as a manager from 1966 to 1967, McNees worked for the international department of the
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