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Morton "Moe" Coleman, a social worker, policy maker, professor at Pitt's Graduate Schools of Social Work and of Public and International Affairs, and founding director of Pitt's Institute of Politics, has died, according to a statement from the university. Mr. Coleman, who was born in 1932, attended Wightman School, Taylor Allderdice High School and the University of Pittsburgh. He earned a master's degree in social work in 1961 and went to work in the Hill District, where he witnessed firsthand the problems of urban renewal, according to a 1999 Post-Gazette profile of Mr. Coleman. Mr. Coleman joined the administration of Pittsburgh Mayor Joseph Barr in 1963, where he was involved in implementing a number of the era's War on Poverty programs. His career also took him to Detroit, in 1968, where he worked as personal adviser to Henry Ford II on urban issues, and Hartford, Connecticut, before he returned to Pittsburgh. Mr. Coleman was known as someone who could bring people together from different spheres, from politics, to academia, to community groups, which was part of why he developed Pitt's Institute of Politics. See Tuesday’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for a full obituary.

Veteran cartoonist Rob Rogers has been fired from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette after 25 years. He speaks with CNN's Erin Burnett about his firing.