More than $1.7 million in taxpayer money is going to Pittsburgh-based community groups to address violence.
After some heated city council meetings about how and to whom the money would go, the Stop the Violence funding was signed into law.
Cheers echoed outside the Pittsburgh City Council chambers. It followed several meetings that raised frustrations over the Stop the Violence funding process this summer. In the end, the city council voted 9-0 to give to 39 groups…