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Mayor Gainey UNFILTERED Courier has one-on-one interview with Ed Gainey, and he’s not holding back

by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer

Two years down, and at least two more to go.

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey sat down with members of the New Pittsburgh Courier editorial board on Tuesday, Jan. 23. The meeting inside the Mayor’s Office lasted for roughly 75 minutes.

Mayor Gainey sat down the entire time during the

interview.

It might have been the first time he’s sat down that long since becoming mayor of a city that’s got 300,000 residents, and about as many issues.

Over the next few weeks, the Courier will delve into the numerous topics discussed with Mayor Gainey, in this series, “Mayor Gainey, Unfiltered.” This is part one.

THE CULTURE CHANGE Pittsburgh’s first Black mayor, Ed Gainey, similar to the States’ first Black president, Barack Obama, knew that there would be people who wouldn’t like him just because he was Black. But that didn’t stop Mayor Gainey from announcing his bid to run for mayor in January 2021.

“I’m running for mayor because I know that the working people of Pittsburgh need opportunities for good union jobs with a living wage and benefits, affordable housing, genuine public safety, and a city where we can all belong and contribute,” Gainey said at the time.

“We can uplift the city of Pittsburgh for everyone if we start with those who

have been left behind.”

The Courier was there when Gainey won the Democratic nomination for mayor in May 2021, a vibrant, vivacious celebration held outside, on the North Side. The Courier was there when Gainey won the general election for mayor at a stylish gala inside the Benedum Center, Nov. 2, 2021.

And the Courier was

there when he was swornin as mayor, Jan. 3, 2022.

As he settled into his new digs at 414 Grant Street, Downtown, he told the Courier exclusively, “the first thing coming into this office is we wanted to make sure that we had a safe city.”

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Undefeated and Intimidating Pittsburgh native Eddie Benton’s Oakland Catholic basketball team is rolling as WPIALs begin

by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer

Just two years ago, seats in the bleachers were readily available during basketball games at Donahue Pavilion, the home court inside Oakland Catholic High School, an all-girls school in Oakland. In the 2021-22 season, the team won 16 games, but lost 10, which included a second-round loss in the WPIAL playoffs, and a loss to McKeesport in the state playoffs.

Today, it’s standing-room-only at the gym.

It was senior day, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024. And the main attraction, the Oakland Catholic basketball team, crushed North Catholic, 44-28, to improve to 22-0 and have its first undefeated regular season in 24 years.

What’s changed?

Enter new Athletics Director Dr. Karen Hall, and new Head Coach, Eddie Benton. Both are African Americans with high-octane basketball resumes.

Together, they’ve changed the culture of the entire program (and the warmup music).

As Dr. Hall, the assistant executive director of Ozanam Inc., looked on as hundreds of people celebrated on the court with their daughters, nieces and friends who play on Oakland Catholic’s team, Dr. Hall told the New Pittsburgh Courier this excitement is exactly what she envisioned when she became A.D. in February 2022.

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NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent In a harmonious blend of iconic lyrics, Mary J. Blige’s soulful anthem “No More Drama” Eric B. & Rakim’s timeless declaration in “Paid in Full” and A Tribe Called Quest’s rhythmic wisdom from “Can I Kick It?” intertwine to create a symphony of musical mastery.

Showcasing a diverse lineup of influential artists, the trio of hip-hop icons heads the list of nominees for the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Indeed, Mary J. Blige’s impassioned plea for liberation from turmoil has always set the stage among hip-hop and R&B royalty.

At the same time, Eric B. & Rakim’s poetic verses on pursuing success resonate powerfully in rap. A Tribe Called Quest’s laid-back groove and infectious call to action infuse the narrative with unity and self-expression. Hip-hop has taken a front seat in the Hall, which has become a celebration of popular music from all genres.

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1760—The great religious leader Richard Allen is born in slavery in Philadelphia. After being required to sit in the back of a White church, Allen would go on to help found and become the first active bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Today, the church, one of the largest predominantly Black denominations in America, has more than 1 million members in the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean and Africa. Allen died in 1831.

1817—This is the most likely birthdate of abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass. Douglass purchased his freedom in 1845 and went on to become the most influential Black leader of his day. He did most of his work while living in Rochester, N.Y. But after the Civil War, he moved to Washington, D.C. 1867—One of the nation’s most distinguished institutions of higher learning, Morehouse College, was founded on this day in Augusta, Ga., as the Augusta Institute. It moved to Atlanta in 1879 and became the Atlanta Baptist Seminary. It became “Morehouse” in 1913. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. graduated from Morehouse.

1936—The National Negro Congress is organized on this day at a meeting in Chicago, Ill., attended by more than 800 delegates representing nearly 500 Black organizations. A. Phillip Randolph, head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, is elected president. One of the Congress’ chief aims was to generate national support for the “New Deal” legislation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Chicago Defender described the Congress as “the most ambitious effort for bringing together members of the Race on any single issue.” Up until this time, most Black voters were Republicans. But the National Negro Congress and Roosevelt’s social betterment programs led to a massive African American switch to the Democratic Party.

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1804—The New Jersey legislature passes a law leading to the gradual elimination of slavery in the state. However, the process was so gradual that there were still slaves in New Jersey right up to the start of the Civil War in 1860.

1851—In an extraordinary bold move for the times, a group of Black and White abolitionists invade a Boston courtroom and forcibly free a fugitive slave before he could be sent back to the South.

Shadrach Minkins was hidden from slave-catchers and he later fled to Canada.

1961—A group of U.S. Blacks and African nationalists disrupt a session of the United Nations to protest the slaying of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. Lumumba was one of Africa’s bright and shining stars. But his nationalism and socialism frightened some Western nations. It is widely believed that Belgium intelligence and America’s CIA arranged the killing of Lumumba.

1965—Great singer and Jazz pianist Nat King Cole dies of lung cancer in Santa Monica, Calif. He was only 45.

Cole was the first Black entertainer with his own radio program and later he became the first with a nationally televised TV variety show.

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1923—The “Empress of the Blues” Bessie Smith makes her first recording—“Downhearted Blues”—which immediately sells more than 800,000 copies for Columbia Records and more than 2 million copies by the end of the year. Those were astounding numbers for those days. The Chattanooga, Tenn., born Smith used her sweeping and powerful voice to sing songs of Black culture and real life such as “Nobody Knows You When You Are Down And Out,” “St. Louis Blues,” “Give Me A Pig Foot And A Bottle Of Beer” and the controversial “Give Me A Reefer And A Gang Of Gin.” She died in an automobile accident in 1937 in Clarksdale, Miss. Early reports that her death was caused by Mississippi medical personnel who refused to treat her because she was Black have never been verified.

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1902—Opera legend Marian Anderson is born in Philadelphia. Her tremendous operatic talent was revealed at 17 when she was entered into a New York Philharmonic competition and placed first among 299 entrants. Despite her fame she suffered from racist rejection.

On Easter Sunday 1939, she performed an open air recital at the Lincoln Memorial because the all-White Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow her to sing at Washington, D.C.’s Constitution Hall. (NOTE: Throughout her life Anderson gave her birth as Feb.

17, 1902. However, newly discovered evidence suggests she was actually born Feb. 27, 1897.) She died April 8, 1993.

1942—Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton is born. The Panthers were perhaps the most militant Black organization of the 1960s. At its height, it had thousands of members in several major cities. But it was also the target of massive operations by the FBI and local police departments. Dozens of Panthers would be killed, often under suspicious circumstances. A little known fact, however, is that throughout it all, Newton, an illiterate high school dropout, taught himself to read and in 1980 earned a Ph.D. in social philosophy from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His dissertation was entitled, “War Against the Panthers—A Study of Repression in America.” Newton was found shot to death on an Oakland, Calif., street in 1989.

1963—Perhaps the greatest player to ever dribble a basketball, Michael Jordan, was born on this day in Brooklyn, N.Y. However, his family moved and he played high school basketball in Wilmington, N.C. 1982—The nation’s greatest Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk dies. Born in Rocky Mount, N.C., Monk moved with his family to New York City when he was 4. His classic work was “Round Midnight.”

2006—African-American skater Shani Davis wins the men’s 1,000-meter speed-skating race in Turin, Italy. He became the first Black person to win an individual gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympics.

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1688—The first formal protest against slavery is conducted by a group of Quakers in Germantown, Pa. They denounced slavery and the slave trade. The Quakers were perhaps the only religious group in America that never compromised and consistently opposed slavery.

1913—The Delta Sigma Theta Sorority was incorporated at Howard University.

1931—Author Toni Morrison is born Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorain, Ohio.

She won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1993 for her novel, “Beloved.”

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1919—The “first” Pan African Congress is held bringing together prominent Blacks from throughout the world to chart a program for Black unity and betterment. African-American scholar and activist W.E.B. DuBois was the chief organizer. The gathering was held in Paris, France, and drew 57 distinguished delegates including 16 from the United States, 14 from Africa and others from the Caribbean, South America and Europe. (The 1919 Congress is considered by many the “first” but another such Congress had been organized in 1900.)

1940—Smokey Robinson is born William Robinson in Detroit, Mich. He formed “The Miracles” in 1955 while still in high school. With his voice and poetry of song, Robinson led The Miracles as the group became one of the all-time best record-sellers for Barry Gordy’s Motown music empire.

1942—The Tuskegee Airmen are activated for service in World War II. The allBlack pursuit squadron, later designated 99th Fighter Squadron, was organized and trained at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The squadron served with honors in Europe. During the war, the nearly 1,000 pilots who had been trained flew 15,000 sorties, destroyed 1,000 German aircraft and earned more than 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses.

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1895—The great Black leader Frederick Douglass dies at 78 in Washington, D.C. Douglass was the foremost Black abolitionist struggling to end slavery in the mid-1800s. He used his great oratory skills and his abilities as a newspaper publisher on behalf of freedom and justice for Blacks. Most of his early work emanated from the Rochester, N.Y., area. But after the Civil War he moved to Washington, D.C. Douglass was the nation’s foremost Black leader for nearly 40 years.

1927—Actor Sidney Poitier is born in Miami, Fla., and grows up on Cat Island in the Bahamas. However, by the early 1950s, he was establishing a career in movies. Indeed, it can be said that Poitier was the first Black actor to make it in mainstream movie roles without having to play stereotypical and often demeaning “Black roles.”

1963—Basketball great Charles Barkley is born on this day in Leeds, Ala.

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'Blues is the Roots' tells the life and times of Willie Dixon

by Genea L. Webb For New Pittsburgh Courier

The Blues are the roots of all music, all American music. New Horizon Theater audiences will get the chance to learn about the history of Chicago’s Chess Records and the life and times of Willie Dixon, one of its most prolific songwriters and side musicians, in the musical, “Blues is the Roots.”

“This is an important story to tell. His story is important because he created the Chicago Blues sound and he created amplification which allowed musicians to ‘plug in’ the sound, the energy and the beauty of the music,” said “Blues is the Roots” director, Herb Newsome.

“Willie Dixon was the first person to do that.

The music was beautiful and then white artists claimed ownership of it,

stealing it. Willie was also the first person to sue for that. His story of bravery and influence needs to be told. I think if it wasn’t for Willie, there would be a lot of artists who wouldn’t be able to own their music.”

Dixon, who died in 1992, wrote or co-wrote over 500 songs and played the upright bass and the guitar.

Many of his songs have become Blues standards and his songs, “Little Red Rooster,” and “I Just Want To Make Love To You,” were covered by the Rolling Stones. Dixon was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980.

“Blues is the Roots” was written by Charles Dumas, Dixon’s great nephew. It is a labor of love for Dumas and Newsome, who are friends.

“I was trying to help get the show up five years ago, so when New Horizon

Theater needed a show, I told Joyce (Meggerson-Moore) that I had the perfect show. This show is a fun opportunity for the theater and the Pittsburgh community,” Newsome said.

“Blues is the Roots” will run until Feb. 18. The performances are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m,. with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 3 p.m. The show will run at Pittsburgh Public Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Downtown.

In addition to learning about Dixon’s life and the creation of Chess Records, theatergoers will be treated to some amazing renditions of some of the Blues’ biggest hits including Little Walter’s “My Babe,” and songs by Chuck Berry, Etta James, Howlin’ Wolf, and Koko Taylor.

New Horizon Theater chairperson Megger-

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“2013 was the last time New Horizon Theater did a musical,” Meggerson-Moore told the Courier. “Doing a musical takes a lot because the actors have to be diverse in singing, acting, and dancing.

Many of the actors in the production are performing multiple roles. We’re happy to have this musical and to be telling a true story. Charles Dumas wrote it and is telling it from the family perspective, and that’s good, too. Willie Dixon was 6’2” and 250 pounds. He was an imposing figure.”

“Blues is the Roots” cast members are: Willie Dixon, portrayed by Sam Lothard, Michelle Bankhole (Etta James/Marie); Kevin Brown (narrator Lionel/ Howlin’ Wolf, Otis Rush); Mils James (Little Walter, Chuck Berry, Sonny Boy Williamson); Lance Joos (Jim/Mick Jagger); Jenny Malarkey (recruiter/Sara); Cole McGlumphy (Leon-

ard Chess/ Crush); Nickolas Page (Muddy Waters); Angelique A. Strothers (Daisy/Koko Taylor).

According to Meggerson Moore, there are four different parking lots in the vicinity where people can park. Tickets are $35 general admission; $30 seniors aged 65 and up; students aged 16 and up are $20.

Group discounts available for groups of 10 or more attending the same performance. Tickets can be purchased by calling 412431-0773 or visit www.newhorizontheater.org.

“We’re doing the show for two weeks instead of our usual three weeks. We are having the Thursday shows to compensate for not having a third week,” Meggerson-Moore said.

“We hope that people will come out and help get the word out. We have a rich background as Black people. I’d like for us to get a sense of our history not just in music, but in everything. People know the songs, but they will walk away with a history of the songs and a story welltold.”

‘SOUL TO SOUL’ celebrates partnership between Blacks and Jews through song

by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer

Come Saturday evening, Feb. 17, a concert will be coming to the Hill District that you don’t see every day.

“SOUL TO SOUL,” according to co-creator Elmore James, will celebrate through song the strong historical connection between Blacks and Jews. The show will occur at 7:30 p.m. at the Kaufmann Center, next to the Hill House, on Centre Avenue. It’s presented by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.

Sung by performers with careers spanning from Broadway to the pulpit, the songs one will hear range from spirituals, jazz, civil rights era anthems to Yiddish traditional and theatre songs from the Great American Songbook.

“When (Dr.) Martin Luther King (Jr.) came along, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the leading people who was marching right alongside him,” James told the New Pittsburgh Courier. “So there was a very strong bond between the plight of Jews of Blacks.”

For James, this is the 16th year he’s been involved in “SOUL TO SOUL.” He was initially drawn to the connection between Blacks and Jews when the famed singer, athlete and activist Paul Robeson, who was Black, would sing in Yiddish.

“In the ‘70s, the mayor of New York City was Ed Koch,” James told the Courier. “He began to drive a wedge between Blacks and Jews, because when you separate people, you can divide and conquer. The message of this show (‘SOUL TO SOUL’) is, we’re stronger together.”

Tickets are available at bethshalompgh.org.

“SOUL TO SOUL” IS ONE NIGHT ONLY IN PITTSBURGH, FEB. 17.

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All Aliquippa does is win, but now they're being punished for it PIAA rules team must play in Class 5A for next two seasons :10—You’ve heard the expression before, I am sure.

“Blessed and Cursed!” That can be said about the historic and unprecedented Aliquippa Quips High School football program, who won the PIAA state championship in Class 4A with a 60-14 triumph over Dallas, Dec. 7, 2023. Aliquippa is blessed with the homegrown talent and culture to be the best you can be on and off the football field. And cursed by those who want to bring their dominance to an end any way they can; and for those who do, be careful what you wish for! :09—I’ll come back to that shortly, clearly there are a few things to call attention to. But let’s take a walk down a not so distant memory lane and be reminded of the greatness we know as Aliquippa High School football. #1. Five football state championships (1991, 2003, 2018, 2021, 2023). #2. The only high school that has three graduates in the Pro Football Hall of fame; Mike Ditka (5x Pro Bowl - 2x All Pro - 1x Super Bowl - 1x NFL Champion), Ty Law (5x Pro Bowl - 2x All Pro - All 2000 Team - 3x Super Bowl), and Darrelle “Revis Island” Revis (7x Pro Bowl - 4x All Pro - All 2010 Team - 1x Super Bowl). :08—Let’s not forget, “It takes a village!” And in so doing, Coach Mike Warfield became one of only three WPIAL coaches with three or more state titles as an active coach. Coach Warfield is a born-and-bred Aliquippa product who clearly under-

stands what it takes to be a winner in Aliquippa, having lived it and played it. In six seasons, Coach Warfield has an unbelievable record of 74-6 (a .925 winning percentage) and has guided his teams to four WPIAL titles and three PIAA titles.

That, along with being voted Coach of the Year in 2023 by the Pittsburgh Union Progress sports staff and others, should put to rest some of the misguided thoughts and suggestions some of you have expressed both out loud and behind closed doors. (You know who you are...stop pretending.) :07—Back to a few more stats. The Quips proudly present 12 grads who have gone into the NFL - Mike Ditka, Tony Dorsett (and please don’t argue with me about the 10 yards territorial divide as to where Tony

Dorsett is from...), Ty Law, Darrelle Revis, Tommie Campbell, Jonathan Baldwin, Sean Gilbert, Charles Fisher, Lynwood Alford, Bob Liggett, Ed Scrutchins, and Ed Ribar. :06—When I asked Coach Warfield how it happens and what it takes to achieve such amazing numbers, he stated it’s part of the culture. You’re expected to play and it all

starts with the importance and adult coaching commitment to the “Little Quips” football program. Not just coaching football skills, but life skills as well. :05—Allow me to sprinkle a little praise on Coach Warfield, a man who doesn’t seek it for himself. Mike earned multiple letters at Quip in basketball and football. And as a senior, led his basketball team to a WPIAL championship and quarterbacked his football team to a 7-2 record. The man has lived it, walked it, and can now talk it. :04—It should be pointed out that football is not the only commodity that Aliquippa boasts of. Needless to say, the basketball and track programs are highly successful, but their academic and cultural pro-

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grams are top-level and provide great opportunities for those who choose the non-athletic direction. :03—What’s extremely important to note and point out are that these accomplishments are born out of an enrollment number that is far less than larger WPIAL schools like Penn Hills, North Allegheny, Central Catholic, Upper St. Clair, Woodland Hills, and Thomas Jefferson. That being said, all that’s being asked by the Aliquippa schools system is they be judged and maintained by the system that was established. #1.

Enrollment; #2. Success; and #3 Transfers...they want and expect no more and no less. If they are able to be bumped up in class, let it be fair, consistent, and without a sliding rule scale.

:02—But the PIAA, the governing body over Pennsylvania high school football, rejected the appeal from Aliquippa as to why the Quips should remain in Class 4A and not move up to Class 5A. The PIAA contends that if a high school football team has a lot of success in the postseason for two years in a row and has at least three transfers to the team within that twoyear period, that the team could be moved up a class in competition. Coach Warfield explained that two of the transfers actually quit the team this past season, so that shouldn’t be a factor. Still, the PIAA, which moved Aliquippa to Class 4A a few years ago when in all actuality, Aliquippa only has the male student body for a Class 1A designation,

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the PIAA stuck to its original ruling. Coach Warfield guarantees that his team maintains their competitive spirit and will not allow said ruling to determine their attitudes and no excuses mindset to win! “We have to keep it moving forward and use this as an opportunity to teach our student athletes that no matter what, hard work, commitment and dedication are the paths to success!” :01—As a WPIAL product, allow me to offer a final thought as a former Penn Hills player and coach. If I were the rest of the WPIAL Class 5A community, I’d be careful about poking the bear. The bear will only devour what’s in front of it...I’m just sayin! :00—GAME OVER!

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City of Pittsburgh workers, particularly those in the Department of Public Works, didn’t feel safe on the job. DPW encompasses everything from snow and ice removal, collecting refuse and recyclables, maintaining streets and park maintenance.

Representatives for the mayor said during the interview that there had been a sizable reduction in work-related injuries in the Department of Public Works since August 2022. “Workers now have a sense of safety,” voiced Olga George, a spokesperson for the mayor. “They have a sense of, if they see a problem, they feel psychologically safe to say, ‘there is a problem,’” and managers are saying, ‘what can we do to fix this problem.”

George said in the past, some DPW members were driving snow plows that were “too large for the streets that they were driving on. They did not feel the sense, or they did elevate the issue, and nothing was done and they just had to figure out workarounds. When you try to figure out workarounds, what happens is, workers get hurt.”

Mayor Gainey said he wasn’t having that.

“When I came on as mayor, we went to every Department of Public Works division, visited them, got

on the snow plow, found out what they need,” Mayor Gainey told the Courier. “..We put that money in the budget so that they would have the trucks they need, the personnel they need, and that was the first time in a long time that they had seen that level of investment.”

In the movie, “How did the City of Pittsburgh handle the snowstorm?” the city had not so good reviews in a Jan. 16 squall fest. But then, on Jan. 19, three days later, when forecasters thought the biggest snow was coming yet to the area, the snow wasn’t as bad, and the Gainey administration received praise for its snow removal process.

Mayor Gainey told the Courier that overall, his message from Day 1 has been to change the culture of the city’s operations internally first.

“We went to every police station in the city, all zones, we talked to them about what they need,” Mayor Gainey said. “What happened? First time in 20-some years that they got pay raises without (having to go through arbitration). This is the first time we were able to do it without collectively bargaining.”

Mayor Gainey said he went to the fire departments, too, and got them a new contract without having to go through arbitration. “So we’ve been

able to move some of our public safety departments in a way that has transformed this city,” he told the Courier.

“I’ll be quite honest with you,” Mayor Gainey told the Courier exclusively, “morale was down in Police, DPW, down in DOMI (Department of Mobility and Infrastructure), Parks and Rec, and that’s not my style of management. My style of management is to put people in positions that they can feel safe and feel like they have the ability to thrive.”

The mayor, as members of his team watched, told the Courier that it’s a new feeling in the Mayor’s Office these days. He said he comes to work every day ready to tackle the next problem, while celebrating the latest victory. He said he’s human, he sees what is said about him on the news, or on the radio, or in the newspapers, or on the Internet. But two years in, and at least two more to go, Mayor Gainey continues on, seemingly unfazed and set on the task at hand.

“Before the outside can change, the inside has to change,” Mayor Gainey told the Courier. “You have to change self before you can change anything else. We’ve been able to do that. I’m not here to be a dictator, I’m here to be a collaborator.”

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How World War I sparked the artistic movement that transformed Black America

by Elizabeth J. West Georgia State University

Though we often discuss World War I through the lens of history, we occasionally do it through literature. When we do, we’ll invariably go to the famous trilogy of Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald – the authors most representative of America’s iconic Lost Generation. Their work is said to reflect a mood that emerged from the ashes of a war that, with its trail of carnage, left survivors around the world with a despairing vision of life, self and nation.

The anxiety and hopelessness of the Lost Generation has become embedded in literary and cultural history. But for Black artists, writers and thinkers, the war meant something entirely different: It spawned a transformation of the way African-Americans imagined themselves, their past and their future.

With Africa as a source of inspiration, a “New Negro” emerged out of the ruins of the Great War – not broken and disenchanted, but possessed with a new sense of self, one shaped from bold, unapologetically black models.

Denying an African legacy Before World War I, African-American literature depicted stoic, but constrained, Black protagonists. They emulated European codes of class and respectability while rejecting any sort of African legacy or inheritance.

In other words, they talked like White people, dressed like White people and accepted the narrative that White men were the source of America’s greatness.

From the most wellknown 19th-century African-American writer, Frederick Douglass, to his less remembered contemporary, Alexander Crummell, literary Black advocacy or racial uplift too often rested on this approach.

Still, in the years leading up to World War I, there were rumblings of the “New Negro” archetype. For example, in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s 1902 novel “The Sport of the Gods” and Pauline Hopkins’ serialized novel “Hagar’s Daughter,” we see restless, dissatisfied young people who have no desire to become shuffling, servile second-class

citizens.

This defiance, however, would not become widespread in African-American literature until the end of the war.

A ‘New Negro’ emerges Black soldiers abroad during World War I experienced a type of freedom and mobility unattainable back home. In cities from London to Paris, many, for the first time, could travel without the worry of being denied equal lodging accommodations or admission to entertainment venues.

Once they returned stateside, they became increasingly impatient with Jim Crow laws and codes of racial discrimination. Life, they realized, didn’t have to be this way. In a nation that was now half a century beyond slavery, the fever spread among a new generation of Blacks.

In the war’s aftermath, racial tensions heightened – a reflection of this mood. The summer of 1919 was known as the “Red Summer” for the number of race riots that erupted around the coun-

CLAUDE MCKAY. (WIKIMEDIA COMMONS) try, with one of the worst in Chicago, where 38 people died.

And in Black literature, African-American characters no longer looked to the White man – or his nations – as models

of civilization. In his 1925 anthology entitled “The New Negro,” writer, philosopher and Howard University professor Alain Locke has been credited with marshaling in the era we now know

as the Harlem Renaissance. Locke, in his text, called on a generation of emerging Black writers, artists and activists to look to Africa and to Black folk culture in the United States and the Americas as a way to mine and explore a new strand of humanity.

We see this in Langston Hughes’ poetry; in “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” he heralds Africa as source of creativity and cultural grounding: I built my hut by the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.

I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.

Two Jakes – one black, one white Unlike the emerging literati of the Lost Generation, Blacks, for the most part, weren’t angst-ridden over a post-war world devoid of meaning: they had never internalized the myth of America as a shining “city upon a hill.” For them, the war brought no end or loss, no disillusionment or void.

We see this difference if we compare Hemingway’s

protagonist Jake in “The Sun Also Rises” (1926) to Claude McKay’s protagonist in “Home to Harlem” (1928), also named Jake.

Unlike Hemingway’s lost, sullen and impotent hero who can’t find his way home, McKay’s Jake happily traverses Europe for a period after the war until he realizes he yearns for home.

While life is still a struggle and racism persists, McKay’s hero looks to the future with hope; he returns to Harlem where he relishes the many shades of Black and brown beauties that he missed in Europe. McKay’s Jake immerses himself in a Black world of love and laughter – a place that loudly celebrates life. He becomes inspired not by the readings and ideals of White thinkers and writers, but through Black prototypes in and beyond America. His West Indian co-worker introduces him to Toussaint L’Ouverture and Jean-Jaques Dessalines, the Black heroes of the Haitian Revolution, and to the history of great African empires dating back to antiquity.

In the literary works of Black women, a new ethos also emerged. In Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” the main character, Janie, is daring in her quest for freedom: She leaves the confines of her restrictive community to take up with a younger man.

Black musicians, artists and writers of the Harlem Renaissance are celebrated as leaders of this transformative era in black history. But Harlem wasn’t alone. Cities such as Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago also became hubs of black cosmopolitanism.

Above all, the African-American literary works born out of the ashes of World War I went on to spur the bold spirit of resistance of the African-American protest movement into the 21st century.

We also see that American literature is not a monolith of interpretation and experiences: In the case of post-World War I literature, even though one generation was lost, another was found.

(This article was republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.)

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A Black History primer on African Americans’ fight for equality

by Howard Manly The Conversation

As the father of Black history, Carter G. Woodson had a simple goal – to legitimize the study of African American history and culture.

To that end, in 1912, shortly after becoming the second African American after W.E.B. Du Bois to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard, Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915.

More than 100 years later, Woodson’s goal and his work detailing the struggle of Black Americans to obtain full citizenship after centuries of systemic racism is still relevant today.

As dozens of GOP-controlled state legislatures across the U.S. have either considered or enacted laws restricting how race is taught in public schools, The Conversation U.S. has published numerous stories over the years exploring the rich ter-

HARRIET TUBMAN, far left, poses with her family, friends and neighbors near her barn in Auburn, N.Y., in the mid-to-late 1880s. (Bettmann/Getty Images) rain of Black history – and the never-ending quest to form what the Founding Fathers called

a more perfect union.

1. From the Underground Railroad to Civil War battlefields

Armed with a deep faith, Harriet Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Un-

derground Railroad, the interracial network of abolitionists who enabled Black people to

escape from slavery along secret routes in the South to freedom in the North and Canada.

But Tubman’s activities as a Civil War spy are less well known.

As historian and Tubman biographer Kate Clifford Larson wrote, Tubman’s devotion to America’s promise of freedom endured, despite suffering decades of enslavement and second-class citizenship.

“I had reasoned this out in my mind,” Tubman once said. “There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.”

2. Juneteenth and the myths of emancipation As a scholar of race and colonialism, Kris Manjapra wrote that Emancipation Days – Juneteenth in Texas – are not what many people think.

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not remove all the shackles that prevented Black people from obtaining full citizenship rights,” Manjapra noted.

“Nor did emancipations prevent states from enacting their own laws that prohibited Black people from voting or living in white neighborhoods.”

Between the 1780s and 1930s, over 80 emancipations from slavery occurred, from Pennsylvania in 1780 to Sierra Leone in 1936.

In fact, there were 20 separate emancipations in the United States alone from 1780 to 1865.

3. An image of a lynching found in a family photo album

As director of the Lynching in Texas project, historian Jeffrey L. Littlejohn provided the very kind of analysis that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Republican legislators in Texas want to ban from public schools.

Among the many documents and relics Littlejohn has received, one package stood out. Inside was a family album of photographs filled with the usual images of memories – a vacation, a wedding anniversary dinner – but also, one of the lynching of a Black man.

During the Jim Crow era, lynchings occurred regularly in Texas – with 16 in 1922 alone.

But in 2021, the

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SCENE OF THE BURNINGS of Johnny Cornish, Mose Jones and Snap Curry in Kirvin, Texas, on May 6, 1922. (Jeff Littlejohn) GOP-controlled state Legislature in Texas enacted a law prohibiting K-12 educators from teaching that “slavery and racism are anything other than deviations from … the authentic founding principles of the United States, which include liberty and equality.”

In other words, as Littlejohn wrote, “this interpretation holds that slavery, racism and racism’s deadly manifestation, lynching, did not serve as systemic forces that shaped Texas history but were instead aberrations.”

The photo album serves as a direct challenge to that interpretation.

the capabilities of their race.

Prompted by the Pittsburgh Courier, an influential Black newspaper during the 1940s, Delmont wrote that Black Americans rallied behind the Double V campaign during the war – victory over fascism abroad and victory over racism at home.

During the war, the Red Ball Express, the Allied forces’ transportation unit that delivered supplies to the front lines, was one example of such exceptional performance.

From August through November 1944, the mostly Black force moved more than 400,000 tons of ammu-

of the civil rights movement.

He emerged from that crucible by crafting a persona that one teammate called “a kingly arrogance.”

Russell, who died July, 31, 2022, was the NBA’s first Black superstar, its first Black champion and its first Black coach.

As a civil rights activist, Russell questioned the nonviolence philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr. and defended the militant ideas of Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam. He refused to accept segregated accommodations in the Deep South and recalled instances of police brutality during his

All this month, displays at Hillman Library will feature artists with Pittsburgh ties, including August Wilson, John Edgar Wideman, Albert French, Damon Young, Billy Porter, Bill Nunn, Wiz Khalifa, Mary Lou Williams, Roy Eldridge, Vernell A. Lillie, and many others.

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IN THIS OCTOBER 1944 PHOTOGRAPH, Black soldiers are filling up gasoline tanks for the Red Ball Express. (AFP via Getty Images) 4. Black soldiers fight racism and Nazis during World War II In his book “Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad,” historian Matthew Delmont explored the idea of Black patriotism and how many Black soldiers saw their service as a way to demonstrate

nition, gasoline, medical supplies and rations to battlefronts in France, Belgium and Germany.

5. An NBA champion’s cerebral fight for equal rights In his biography of Bill Russell, “King of the Court,” Aram Goudsouzian wrote that the NBA champion sought to find worth in basketball amid the racial tumult

childhood in Oakland, California.

“It’s a thing you want to scream,” Russell wrote. “I MUST HAVE MY MANHOOD.” (This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.)

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IT TOOK GEORGE GERSHWIN JUST 10 DAYS TO PEN THE AMERICAN CLASSIC. (GAB ARCHIVE/REDFERNS VIA GETTY IMAGES)

George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s melting pot

by Ryan Raul Bañagale February 12, 1924, was a frigid day in New York City. But that didn’t stop an intrepid group of concertgoers from gathering in midtown Manhattan’s Aeolian Hall for “An Experiment in Modern Music.” The organizer, bandleader Paul Whiteman, wanted to show how jazz and classical music could come together. So he commissioned a new work by a 25-year-old Jewish-American upstart named George Gershwin.

Gershwin’s contribution to the program, “Rhapsody in Blue,” would go on to exceed anyone’s wildest expectations, becoming one of the best-known works of the 20th century. Beyond the concert hall, it would appear in iconic films such as Woody Allen’s “Manhattan” and Disney’s “Fantasia 2000.” It was performed during the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, and if you ever fly on United Airlines, you’ll hear it playing during the preflight safety videos.

I’ve spent nearly two decades researching and writing about this piece. To me, “Rhapsody” isn’t some static composition stuck in the past; rather, it’s a continuously evolving piece of music whose meaning has changed over time.

Programming “Rhapsody” for concerts today has become somewhat of a double-edged sword. A century after it premiered, it remains a crowd favorite – and almost always guarantees a sold-out show.

But more and more scholars are starting to see the work as a whitewashed version of Harlem’s vibrant Black music scene.

A cobbled-together hit Whiteman commissioned

Gershwin to write “Rhapsody” sometime in late 1923. But as the story goes, the composer forgot about his assignment until he read about the upcoming concert in a newspaper on Jan. 4, 1924.

Gershwin had to work quickly, writing as time allowed in his busy schedule.

Manuscript evidence suggests that he only worked on the piece a total of 10 days over the span of several weeks.

Handwritten sheet music.

Accordingly, he relied on the familiar melodies, harmonies, rhythms and musical structures that had started to garner him acclaim as a popular composer for the Broadway stage.

This music was increasingly influenced by early jazz, as the improvised, syncopated and blues-infused sound of Black musicians such as Louis Armstrong made its way north from New Orleans. Gershwin also mingled with, and was influenced by, some of the great Harlem stride pianists of the day, including James P. Johnson and Willie “The Lion” Smith.

Despite being quickly cobbled together, “Rhapsody in Blue” ultimately sold hundreds of thousands of records and copies of sheet music. Gershwin’s own performances of the work on tour also helped boost its popularity.

But success also opened up the piece to criticism – particularly that Gershwin had appropriated Black music.

Black musicians feel snubbed This is not only a 21st-century critique by music historians. Even back then, some Black artists were miffed.

But rather than calling

A COPY OF THE FIRST PAGE OF GEORGE GERSHWIN’S MANUSCRIPT FOR ‘RHAPSODY IN BLUE.’ (GABRIEL HACKETT/ARCHIVE PHOTOS/GETTY IMAGES) it out in print, they did so through their own art.

In 1929, blues artist Bessie Smith starred in a short film called “St. Louis Blues,” based on the song of the same name by composer W.C. Handy.

It features an all-Black cast, including members of the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra and the Hall Johnson Choir. Instrumental and vocal versions of Handy’s song provide the sonic backdrop for this 15-minute film – with one very pointed exception.

Smith plays the part of Bessie, an unrequited lover to a duplicitous gambler named Jimmy. In the final scene, after a previous falling out, Jimmy and Bessie reconcile in a club. They embrace on the dance floor to the strains of “St. Louis Blues.”

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BESSIE SMITH carefully picks her pocket and unmercifully shoves her back to her bar stool.

After Jimmy flashes his newly acquired bankroll, the opening clarinet glissando of “Rhapsody in Blue” begins. During this brief, 20-second cue, Jimmy boastfully backs out of the club, bowing and tipping his hat like a performer acknowledging his ovation.

The short film ‘St. Louis Blues’ takes a subtle dig at Gershwin 14 minutes in.

It’s hard not to see the subtext of introducing Gershwin’s famous piece at this moment: Just as Jimmy has robbed Bessie, the film suggests that Gershwin had pilfered jazz from the Black community.

Another musical response to “Rhapsody” emerged in 1927 from Gershwin’s stride pianist friend, James P. Johnson: “Yamekraw.”

Publisher Perry Bradford billed the work as “not a ‘Rhapsody in Blue,’ but a Rhapsody in Black and White (Black notes on White paper).”

Of course, the “black notes” were more than just the score itself. Johnson demonstrates how a Black musician would approach the rhapsody genre.

Stuck in the middle with ‘Blue’ Gershwin once described “Rhapsody” “as a sort of musical kaleidoscope of America – of our vast melting pot.”

The problem with the “melting pot” metaphor is that it asks immigrants to leave behind cultural practices and identities in order to assimilate into the majority population.

And that’s just what Whiteman’s musical experiment at Aeolian Hall a century ago was all about: He sought, as he put it, to “make a lady out of jazz.”

As the concert’s program read, “Mr. Whiteman intends to point out, with the assistance of his orchestra and associates, the tremendous strides which have been made in popular music from the day of the discordant Jazz … to the really melodious music of today.”

In other words, he wanted to fold the era’s popular

jazz music into classical music – and, in doing so, draw out the inherent beauty in the beast, making it more acceptable to white audiences.

“Rhapsody in Blue” and other classical-jazz hybrid works like it would soon become known as “middlebrow” music.

This fraught term emerges from the space between the so-called “lowbrow” and “highbrow,” descriptors that locate works of art on a scale from pedestrian to intellectual. These terms originally related to the pseudoscience of phrenology, which drew conclusions about intelligence based on skull shape and the location of the ridge of one’s brow line.

Highbrow music, made by and for White people, was considered the most sophisticated.

But highbrow music could also conveniently elevate lowbrow music by borrowing – or rather, appropriating – musical elements such as rhythm and harmony. Merging the two, the low gets to the middle.

But it could never get to the top on its own terms.

If Gershwin’s “Rhapsody” is meant to be heard as a “musical kaleidoscope of America,” it is important to remember who’s holding the lens, what music gets added to the mix, and how it has changed once admitted.

But it’s also important to remember that 100 years is a long time. What the culture values, and why, inevitably changes. The same is true for “Rhapsody in Blue.”

(Ryan Raul Banagale is As-

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In 2024, there is a gig opportunity for just about anyone. Whether you want to provide a service, teach online, sell items, or rent out your property, there are plentiful opportunities and platforms to connect you with interested buyers.

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How happy are Black people? Depends on what’s in their wallets

by Bria Overs Word In Black

How do you find happiness when the world is on fire? Black people have their ways.

More Black Americans say they are somewhat happy versus being very or not at all happy, according to new research from the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan “fact tank.” However, the divide in happiness is more evident when adding socioeconomic status or class as a factor.

Over half of Black adults considered upper income, bringing in more than $143,400 annually, say they are extremely or very happy these days.

Meanwhile, only a quarter who are lower income, making under $47,800, and less than half who are middle income, feel the same.

More—that’s the theme for upper-income Black adults. They are happier, have more time to enjoy life, and find more fulfillment in life experiences THERE ARE STRONG CONNECTIONS between money and happiness. To understand how hap- and activities. The connections bepy the Black community is, we must look at income levels. tween money and happiness make it

so.

“Money 100 percent can make you happier if you have been in a situation where your needs were not being met,” says Aja Evans, licensed mental health counselor, financial therapist, and forthcoming author. “Where I start to be a little bit skeptical about the happiness and money link is when people assume that because you have money, you are happy. I disagree.”

She adds that a more stable financial situation can lead to greater stability in other aspects of life. But long-term, sustained happiness also depends on factors outside of money.

Finding Black Joy According to the Pew Research Center, most Black people enjoy spending time with family or friends, actively engaging with church or other religious and spiritual practices, and traveling. Some find their job or career enjoyable, and others like the arts or being out in nature.

However, few Black Americans found SEE WALLET B2

Social Security Pop Quiz How much do you know about social security?

MassMutual recently gave a social security true/false quiz to 1,500 individuals ages 55 through 65. According to the results, 65 percent of people either failed or got a D grade, 18 percent of respondents earned a C, 12 percent got a B and 6 percent received an A. Only 1 percent of respondents got a perfect score.

I went onto the MassMutual website and took the quiz. I’m happy to report, I got a perfect score.

Below are some true and false social security questions followed by the corresponding answers. Take the Social Security Pop Quiz to test your knowledge.

Q: Social security retirement benefits are based on my earnings history; I’ll receive the same monthly benefit amount whether I start collecting before or after my full retirement age.

False: If you collect social security retirement benefits before reaching full retirement age, you effectively lock in a lower monthly benefit amount. If you wait to begin collecting until after you reach full retirement age, you become eligible for delayed retirement credits. These credits increase your monthly benefit amount by up to 8 percent each year that you delay collecting, up to a maximum of 32 percent.

Once you reach age 70, no additional de-

layed retirement credits accrue. *** Q: If my spouse dies, I will continue to receive both my own benefit and my deceased spouse’s benefit; the total social security benefits I receive will not change.

False: Social security retirement benefits are only paid while you are alive. Assuming that you are eligible, the amount you receive will equal the greater of your benefit or your spouse’s benefit. *** Q: Only U.S. citizens can collect social security retirement benefits.

False: You do not have to be a U.S. citizen to qualify for social security retirement benefits. Resident aliens who pay into the social security system may qualify to receive retirement benefits, assuming they earn enough credits and meet specific criteria. To become part of the social security system, non-citizens must have lawful alien status, permission by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to work in the U.S., and a social security number. *** Q: Under current social security law, my benefits will not be reduced if I claim them

at age 65.

False: Your full retirement age is based on the year you were born. For people born between 1943 and 1954, the full retirement age is 66. For those born between 1955 and 1959, the full retirement age increases by two months each year starting at 66 years and 2 months in 1955. If you were born in 1960 or later, the full retirement age is 67. *** Q: If I am still working when I claim my social security, my benefit might be reduced, depending on my earnings and my age.

True: You can work and receive social security retirement benefits. However, if you have not reached your full retirement age, your earnings will be subject to the retirement earnings test. If your income exceeds the test limit, social security may withhold all or a portion of your benefits. *** Q: If I file for retirement benefits and have minor dependent children, they may also qualify for social security benefits.

True: When you file for social security retirement benefits, your children may also qualify to receive benefits based on your record. An eligible child can be your biological child, adopted child, or stepchild.

Your dependent grandchild may also qualify. Normally, benefits stop when children reach age 18, unless they have a disability. However, if the child is still a full-time student at a secondary school at age 18, benefits will continue until the child graduates or until two months after the child reaches age 19, whichever comes first. *** Q: My Primary Insurance Amount is the social security retirement benefit amount I will receive if I elect to receive my retirement benefit at age 62.

False: Your Primary Insurance Amount (PIA) is the benefit you will receive if you begin receiving retirement benefits at your full retirement age. At this age, your benefit is neither reduced for early retirement nor increased for delayed retirement. *** Q: Social security payments are not subject to cost-of-living adjustments.

False: The Social Security Act of 1973 included a provision for cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) to help social security benefits account for inflation. Each year, the Social Security Administration uses specific indexes and formulas mandated by this legislation to determine whether a COLA will apply to benefits paid in the coming year and, if so, how much the SEE DAMON CARR B2

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er, HouseSit Match, Care.com, Visiting Angels, CookUnity Online Tutoring, Education, and Fitness Services The online education and fitness sector accelerated when people were stuck at home during the pandemic. Platforms connect educators with students seeking assistance in various subjects through personalized one-on-one sessions or the creation of comprehensive courses.

These gigs include:

• Online Tutoring • Test Preparation • Teaching Classes for Youth • Teaching Classes for Adult Learners • Fitness Coaching and Classes Gig platforms include Outschool, VIPKID, Udemy, and Trainerize Transportation and Delivery Services Transportation platforms like Uber are some of the original gig economy pioneers. They revolutionized transportation and delivery services while opening our minds to the benefits of work oppor-

Salem’s Market is open Salem’s Market officially opened its doors in the Hill District (1850 Centre Avenue) on Thursday, Feb. 8, at 8 a.m.

After years of anticipation, Salem’s Market is set to bring an end to the food desert that has affected this historic neighborhood.

The Salem family extends a warm welcome to the Hill District community, inviting everyone to join in the celebration as the doors officially open.

This marks a significant milestone for the

legendary neighborhood, providing convenient access to fresh produce, meat specials, halal meat, name-brand products, and essential goods.

Salem’s Market is committed to serving the community with quality and diverse products, ensuring that residents have access to a wide range of fresh and essential items.

Salem’s Market is a family-owned and operated grocery store dedicated to providing communities with fresh,

quality produce, meat, and essential products.

With a rich history and commitment to serving neighborhoods, Salem’s Market is excited to contribute to the Hill District’s thriving future.

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These gigs include: • Ride-Share Services • Food and Grocery Delivery Gig platforms include Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Grubhub, Instacart E-commerce and Freelance Marketplace Selling Entrepreneurs and creatives can utilize e-commerce platforms to sell items and digital products to local or global customer bases.

Items to sell include: • Handmade Crafts • Pre-Owned or Refurbished Items • Photography • Digital Products Seller platforms include Etsy, Facebook Marketplace, Shutterstock Home, Vehicle, and Storage Rentals Monetize your assets by renting out

your homes, car, RV, or other properties for short-term use. This sharing economy maximizes the utility of underutilized assets while offering renters unique and often more affordable alternatives to traditional accommodations and transportation services.

Rental platforms include Airbnb, VRBO, Turo, RVshare, Stow It. The gig economy continues to redefine traditional employment models, offering individuals unprecedented flexibility and autonomy. As the diversity of gig work opportunities expands across various industries, there are increasing opportunities for workers to thrive in the modern economy. As technology advances and new platforms emerge, gigonomics will likely remain a dynamic force, providing individuals with the freedom to choose their paths and create meaningful careers or additional income on their terms.

How happy are Black people?

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fulfillment in supporting social or political causes.

“Money can provide opportunities for individuals to engage in more fun behaviors through whatever a person deems as fun,” says Shaywanna Harris-Peirre, associate professor of professional counseling at Texas State University and owner of Shades of You Counseling. “Money and our beliefs around it really shape our overall happiness trajectory.”

And there are class divides in how much these activities are enjoyed.

Lower-income Black adults do not find nearly as much joy in traveling, experiencing the arts, or exercising. “Notable differences exist by income, particularly for activities that can cost money,” the report notes.

Evans says it is good to experience these things, but for those in survival mode or feeling stressed about finances, it is a “band-aid” solution.

“They’re nice to have right now, but you still have to go home where we’re worrying about where our next meal is coming from or how

we’re making the mortgage payment. It’s really difficult for people to feel longer-term joy if they’re still stressing about making ends meet,” said Aja Evans.

As for their work lives, Black folks are often paid less than their White counterparts, which is worse for Black women, and pushed into lower-paying careers through occupational segregation.

Feeling undervalued and underpaid can lead to less enjoyment in working.

Time Flies When You’re Having Fun Enjoying hobbies and loved ones also depends on the availability of time. Around 80 percent of Black adults say they have enough time to do what they please, with 19 percent reporting they rarely or never have the time.

Pew Research Center found from previous surveys and this most recent one that Black adults who reported having enough time are also more likely to say they are extremely or very happy. But the class divide shows up here, as well.

Black people with lower incomes are less likely to say they have a lot of time to do things they want. They feel that “sometimes” is a more accurate description and make up a larger share of those who say they rarely have the time.

But those with middle income are not far behind with their answers.

“They may value their time differently, and they may value more fruitful things,” Harris-Peirre says. “Another symptom of capitalism is that we have the idea that we have to always produce. But specifically for lower-income people, that can be their reality.”

Happiness is subjective, but there are clear divisions in what makes someone happy across class lines.

“We really hold on to this idea that money is going to make you happy,” Evans says. “Yes, it can make you happier, but it’s not going to sustain your happiness forever just because you have money. You need other things, too.”

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increase will be. For more detailed information on how COLAs are calculated, visit the Social Security Administration website. *** Q: Government workers may receive reduced social security retirement benefits.

True: For certain workers, social security imposes two offsets that reduce the full social security monthly benefits that might otherwise have been paid. The “Windfall Elimination Provision” (WEP) affects workers who have earned a pension from an employer (such as a government agency) that did not collect social security taxes and who also have worked in other jobs long enough to earn social security benefits. Under WEP, social security uses a modified formula to calculate your benefit, resulting in a lower benefit than you might have otherwise received. The second offset is called the “Government Pension Offset” (GPO), and it affects spousal benefits if you receive a pension from an employer that did not collect social security taxes. The GPO can also reduce surviving spouse benefits. *** Q: My spouse is eligible to receive social security retirement benefits, even if he or she has no individual earnings history.

True: Many spouses choose to stay at home to raise children or otherwise spend extended periods of time outside the

paid workforce. This can affect a spouse’s ability to qualify for Social Security benefits. In such cases, that spouse may be eligible for a Social Security spousal benefit. A spousal benefit can be as much as 50 percent of the spouse’s full retirement age benefit. The exact percentage will depend on

eign marriages, in all 50 states. *** The money that comes out of my paycheck for Social Security goes into a specific account for me and remains there, earning interest, until I begin to receive Social Security benefits.

False: Social Security is

whether the spouse filing for a spousal benefit has reached his or her full retirement age. *** Q: In most cases, if I take benefits before my full retirement age, they will be reduced for early filing.

True: For those born in 1960 or later, full retirement age is 67 but you can claim as early as age 62. Claiming at 62 permanently reduces your benefits by 30 percent, but you will receive more monthly payments than if you wait to file. *** Q: Generally, if I am in a same-sex marriage, there are different eligibility requirements when it comes to social security retirement benefits.

False: The SSA recognizes same-sex marriages, including approved for-

a pay-as-you-go program.

Today’s workers pay social security taxes, and that money goes back out as monthly income to beneficiaries. *** Q: Under current law, social security benefits could be reduced by 20 percent or more for everyone by 2035.

True: Payroll taxes are only expected to cover about 78 percent of scheduled benefits by 2035. Retirees could see a 22 percent reduction in social security payments unless workers pay more into the system or the full retirement age is increased.

(Money Coach Damon Carr can be reached at 412-216-1013 or visit his website @ www.damonmoneycoach.com.)

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Protect Black History If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Do you miss something that you never had? What is the sound of one hand clapping? Is intelligent design a reality? What is the origin of Black History Month?

The foregoing are questions that have been asked at one time or another by people. When looking at them, some are easier to discuss with clarity than others. For the most part, however, people respond to these questions through the lenses of individual taste. When assessing the aforementioned questions, the one about Black History Month (BHM) will be the easiest for a specific response.

The Black History monthlong celebration was instituted in 1976. Prior to that time, it was celebrated as Negro History Week. The observance was pioneered by Carter G. Woodson, a scholar who was dedicated to the accomplishments of Black people. He chose the month of February because two of the people that he admired the most were born during that month, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

The celebration of Black History Month did not happen without an element of controversy.

Complaints have included questions as to why BHM is observed during the shortest month of the year. That answer was provided in the previous paragraph—two of the people Woodson most admired were born in February.

On the positive side, February is known as a month in which a disproportionate number of geniuses have been born. This may, or may not, be true, but the ultimate lesson is that “the chosen few choose themselves.” In other words, people don’t have to ask why something is the way it is…they should take the initiative to bring those things into reality. This is what Carter G. Woodson did.

America is currently at a crossroads; symptoms of impending change are all around us, and the impact on the ideas circulated during Black History Month will affect the entire country. Basically, there is a wave of disinformation that is manifesting through book bans and through outright lies related to Black history. This is why it will be very important for Black people to take the initiative to ensure that authentic Black history is passed on from one generation to another.

Another thing that must be considered during BHM is the criticisms that Black people have of each other. This sentiment is partially sensed during the reproach of the observation of BHM. This need not be the case, however, if people would act on their own volition without going in lock-step with others who criticize their opinions. When we allow others to influence our personal version of a truth, it takes away a certain kind of freedom; the more we are concerned about hiding our true convictions, the greater we will sink into a sea of disinformation.

Because of the controversy sometimes leveled toward people who are open about the celebration of BHM, it is more urgent during the current environment to gear up and make sure that disinformation doesn’t slip into the mix.

We all know by now that there is a contingent of the population that would like Black history to be erased. In essence, the truth is under attack and, therefore, we must be especially vigilant regarding protecting the truth of the Black experience in America.

One more thing. We must observe BHM for an additional important reason—we must honor those who have contributed to society and to the Black experience in America. This includes, in addition to sports and entertainment figures, Black doctors, lawyers, plumbers, architects, publishers, journalists, scientists, mathematicians, visual artists, cosmetologists, corporate CEOs, waiters, electricians, and more. In other words, during Black History Month, attention should be placed on ALL Black people’s accomplishments, both past and present. This continuity IS important because the nature and quality of our “present” cast its shadow by becoming the “future.” And again, we give special accolades to the great Carter G. Woodson whose demonstration of “Kujichagulia,” (Self-Determination), was a major accomplishment. A Luta Continua!

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(TriceEdneyWire.com)—This is Super Bowl time! I have been blessed to know many of the best in sports. I want to remember some of them during this Black History Month.

First, I had the honor of knowing the one and only Dick Gregory who was a master at many things.

He was a health guru, a comedy genius, a Civil and Human Rights icon, and a track star. Most of all, he was a friend to so many. He could make us feel better. He could make us feel special. He could make even those who wanted to be enemies laugh. He was a great motivator, and as he was leaving this earth a few years ago, he warned us to “Wake Up and Stay Woke.” In these troubling days, we sure need to do that. His work inspired us to vote in every election. He was simply the best at motivating us to be our best selves at all times.

I had the pleasure of counting among my best friends Eddie Robinson. Excellence has always been associated with his name. He was a football coach at Grambling State University. You might say that he made men out of so many boys who came to Grambling by being their example of what a man should be like. He produced the best. Among them were Paul “Tank” Younger, Willie Davis, Doug Williams, Mike Williams, Charlie Joiner,

Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq.

Commentary Willie Brown, Buck Buchanan, Ernie Ladd and so many more—at least 80 who joined teams in the National and American Football Leagues. In 1985, he tied Bear Bryant’s record in victories for the all-time winning coaching record.

My Prairie View friends may not forgive me for mentioning this but they had to feel a little bit of pride again in 1985 when Coach won 324 games putting him on top as the Winningest Coach, causing him to receive more awards than any coach in history. He began each meeting with his players drilling into them the importance of education, and unlike many others, most of his players graduated! He was simply the best.

I knew women track stars.

Among them was Wilma Rudolph who was my neighbor for several years. As a student, I met her in Nashville. What’s so great about Wilma is that she had to overcome a serious disability to become the star that she was. She was a world champion record hold-

er in the Olympics. She won several gold medals. In the 1960’s she was known as the fastest woman in the world. She earned so many complimentary names for her talent.

Among them are The Flash, The Black Gazelle, The Tornado, and The Black Pearl. She became the most highly visible Black woman in America and abroad. She was a strong role model for many of us and is considered a women’s rights pioneer. She taught so many how to succeed despite a handicap.

That’s what Delta women so often do!

In the past few days, the world honored one who also was simply the best. I’m talking about Kobe Bryant. He motivated a new generation of young people to be Black and proud. He was so good that he became a Los Angeles Laker for life. He didn’t just play the game. He defined it. His motto was “Leave the game better than you found it.” He did just that. He and his daughter, Gianna, died in a tragic helicopter crash in 2020, but before that, he inspired so many.

He’s a legend and is the subject of 3 planned statues at the Star Plaza in Los Angeles. Who could ever forget his 81-point game? He was a 5-time NBA Champion. He played with others who were great, but he is still SIMPLY THE BEST! (Dr. E. Faye Williams is President of The Dick Gregory Society.)

Why being a fraternity brother is compatible with my Christian faith (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Historically Black fraternities and sororities— often referred to as Black Greek-letter organizations, or BGLOs—have been making a difference in the lives of Black Americans for more than a hundred years. Members of these organizations have historically been at the forefront of the struggle for racial equality and have been change-makers in every professional sphere.

BGLOs regularly band together to fight principalities, dark powers and wickedness in high places and to promote social justice, voting rights, and anti-poverty measures. And yet, over recent years, some Christians have denounced their BGLOs, publicly attacking them for being “idolatrous” in their use of symbolic Greek letters and for causing members to put loyalty to their organization above loyalty to their faith.

I know the most fundamentally important aspect of my identity is my love for Jesus as Lord. I trust the Holy Spirit as my lead and guide into all truth, and I constantly seek to live the life that is required of me as a believer. I am convinced that through the story of Jesus’ life, death, burial, resurrection, ascension and soon-to-come return, the message He is sending us, in His wisdom, is one of love. I try to embody that message in everything I do.

I am also a proud member of two Black fraternities, Kappa Alpha Psi (one of the Divine Nine collegiate BGLOs) and Sigma Pi Phi (for professionals). Kappa was founded by 10 principled Christian men. With Kappa, I was younger when I crossed and not quite as knowledgeable as I am now about my faith. Nevertheless, at no point in my life have I ever entered into an unorthodox, uninformed, or ungodly alliance with a Greek deity. Nor have I ever sworn an oath that would in any way hinder, absolve, or negate my Christian beliefs.

The Divine Nine were established, mainly in the first decades of the 20th century, as peer-support mechanisms for Black college students.

These young people experienced routine racial discrimination, not just in predominantly White institutions and in wider society, but also in the majority White fraternities and sororities already established on campuses. For many Black students, joining BGLOs helped them survive and thrive. Membership allowed them to bond, build lasting networks of brother- or sisterhood, and empow-

Keith Magee

Commentary er one another and the whole Black community, both at university and then beyond.

It would be impossible to list here the names of all the illustrious leaders from our community who were or are affiliated to BGLOs—there are simply too many to mention. But notable examples include Rev. Samuel DeWitt Proctor (Kappa Alpha Psi); Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. (Alpha Phi Alpha); and Rev. Jesse Jackson (Omega Psi Phi). Bishop Vashti McKenzie, the first female bishop of the AME Church, is a member of Delta Sigma Theta, the sorority of which her grandmother, Vashti Turley Murphy, was one of the founders.

My own mother, Rev. Dr Barbara Reynolds, is a Delta too. One of my peers, Rev. Teraleen Campbell, is the International Chaplain of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority. And let’s not forget, some of our current political heavyweights are also pledged to Greek letter organizations, including Vice-President Kamala Harris (Alpha Kappa Alpha), Minority Leader of the U.S House of Representatives Hakeem Jeffries (Kappa Alpha Psi), and U.S. Senator Rev Raphael Warnock (Alpha Phi Alpha).

From their foundation, both Black and White fraternities and sororities chose to associate their organizations with letters of the Greek alphabet as a nod to the intellectual innovators who flourished in the rich cultural arena of ancient Greece. The enduring contributions made by sages like Plato, Aristotle, Heraclitus, and Pythagoras to fields such as philosophy, science, and mathematics meant aspirational college-educated men and women naturally wanted to be connected to such a tradition.

To this day, when the initiates of BGLOs swear oaths of loyalty, they are pledging to participate in the ongoing quest to unlock the secrets of great knowledge for the good of humanity as well as committing to uphold the ideals of their fraternity or sorority for life. Why anyone would see that as being somehow in conflict with Christian values is utterly baffling to me.

I am in no way opposed to an

individual deciding to renounce their affiliation to a BGLO because of their personal beliefs, any more than I would take issue with someone choosing to no longer eat shellfish, wear wool, or straighten their hair.

However, when I hear a person denouncing BGLOs in general, insinuating that they are somehow “demonic,” and inciting all other members to follow their personal example, that causes me pause. Even if you experience what you believe to be a revelation that must guide your own choices, how can you then deem that to be the truth, rather than your truth?

One person’s shortcomings in life, or the way an individual lives in a particular state of sin doesn’t necessarily apply to everyone. Rather than rail against BGLOs, I wish more believers would be concerned about the ungodly alliances or oaths some of us make to certain churches, other organizations, and leaders who really do act or live in a perpetual reprobate state. In contrast, I would ask that we all extend a measure of grace to any group or institution—including Black BGLOs—whose members are exhorted to spend a lifetime making a positive impact on their communities and exemplifying the kindness Jesus teaches us.

In the case of both my fraternities, I can unequivocally and wholeheartedly serve Jesus as Lord, while fulfilling our collective purposes and aims in the certain knowledge that Jesus gets the glory out of my being a member. Why? Because when I’m present with my brothers, the Holy Spirit is there abiding in me. I can, likewise, say that in every formal fraternity setting, overt reverence is always paid to what I believe. In fact, I often either attend or serve as the celebrant for the weekly online services that are currently held by one of Kappa’s alumni chapters.

Therefore, I am not tethered by being a fraternity brother—far from it. Nothing about my membership of these illustrious organizations restricts me in my faith. I’m entirely free in Him who set me free.

(Keith Magee is a theologian, political adviser and social justice scholar. He is chair and professor of practice in social justice at Newcastle University (United Kingdom).

He is senior fellow and visiting professor in cultural justice at University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, where he leads the Black Britain and Beyond think tank, and is also a fellow at its Centre on US Politics. He is the author of “Prophetic Justice: Essays and Reflections on Race, Religion and Politics.”)

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(TriceEdneyWire.com)—Kamala Harris declares she is ready Respect has to be earned. So far, many within the Democratic Party feel Vice President Kamala Harris has not earned that respect. More than a dozen Democratic leaders in key states were candid about their assessment of Harris. The vice president’s tenure has been underwhelming, they said, marked by struggles as a communicator and at times near invisibility, leaving many rank-and-file Democrats unpersuaded that she has the force, charisma and skill to mount a winning presidential campaign.

The selection process for any vice presidential candidate is never made by the voters. It is the presidential nominee, with the help from a vetting team, who selects the person they feel will bring the most balance and electability to the ticket. While critics of Vice President Harris sometimes view her as being unprincipled and unqualified, many understand she was originally chosen because of her race and gender. In April 2020, more than 200 Black women who are leaders and activists within the Democratic Party signed an open letter to the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden calling him to select a Black woman as his running mate.

“It is a fact that the road to the White House is powered by Black women and Black women are the key to a Democratic victory in 2020,” they wrote. The following month, about a dozen of the women who signed the letter made the case directly to Biden in a conference call. Their pitch was about timing, history and strategy. They believed a Black woman would help Biden win the White House. They were correct.

The candidate for vice president again holds special significance in this year’s November election.

The likely rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump raises the question of age and mental ability to a new level of concern. Mental competency should be a major issue giving that Biden, 81 and Trump, 77 are the two oldest men respectively to have been elected president.

David W. Marshall

Commentary As the American electorate is faced with making a four-year investment in the leadership of our nation and the free world, we should do so having comfort over Biden’s and Trump’s long term ability to adequately serve mentally and physically. It is beyond the issues of political ideology, ageism or gaining the political upper hand. Those who have concerns over Biden’s age should have equal concern about Trump’s. In recent weeks, both men had their moments of verbal gaffes during speeches. In a speech, Trump confused Nikki Haley for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Biden had his own mix up when confusing the names of French leaders Macron and Mitterrand. Truthfully, a 39-year old can make the same mistakes. But any type of misstep becomes fair game in the world partisan politics and political campaigns.

Republican strategist Scott Jennings said Vice President Harris is now “squarely” a campaign issue, in wake of a special counsel report on President Biden’s retention of classified documents. The report from special counsel Robert Hur concluded no charges should be brought against the president, but noted Biden had problems with memory and recall. The report portrayed Biden as an elderly man with “diminished capacities,” including memory loss, claiming Biden could not recall which years he served as vice president or when his son, Beau Biden, had died of brain cancer.

The president’s mental competency is a medical issue. Special counsel Hur is not a doctor, nor is the Department of Justice investigation a physical or mental exam. Therefore, the issue of mental competency should not creep into a judicial case without medical confirmation or relevancy. Republicans are now seizing on the report to attack Biden and Harris. Democrats are already skeptical about Biden running for reelection. CBS News polls showed 39 percent of Democrats feel Biden should not run again. Overwhelmingly, his age has become the reason. The number of Democrats who lack confidence in the vice president’s electability is growing with many preferring that Harris not be on the ticket with Biden.

The relationship between a president and vice president can be a simple or complex partnership.

The main reason former president Obama chose Biden as his running mate was Obama’s resume was thin in the area of foreign policy. Biden was a long-time member of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, and was viewed as an experienced voice in foreign affairs.

The two men maintained an effective partnership throughout the Obama / Biden years. The same was true with Bill Clinton and Al Gore until the Monica Lewinsky incident. The partnership between President Franklin Roosevelt and Vice President Harry Truman was more complicated. Truman was not “Roosevelt’s guy”, so he was kept in the dark on a number of critical issues. Although the Roosevelt / Truman ticket won a comfortable election victory, Roosevelt didn’t trust Truman. After Roosevelt’s unexpected death, Truman was vice president for only eighty-two days before becoming president.

During his few weeks as vice president, Truman rarely saw Roosevelt. Truman received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with the Soviet Union. History shows that Truman successfully rose to the monumental occasion after being thrown into the fire.

Asked on CBS’s Face the Nation whether she was prepared to serve as commander-in-chief in case Biden became unable to carry out his duties, Harris said: “Yes, I am, if necessary.” There is always the possibility that Harris could ascend to the highest office and become the first women to serve as U.S. president without being elected. We can only hope that like Truman, Harris can overcome the doubts and rise to the occasion with confidence and success.

(David W. Marshall is founder of the faith based organization, TRB: The Reconciled Body, and author of the book “God Bless Our Divided America”.)

Q&A, a questioner was unsure how Kendi defined racism and asked him to provide a definition. Kendi defined racism as a collection of racist policies that lead to racist inequity that are substantiated by racist ideas.

Kendi clearly established his own definition of racism that coincides with his antiracist philosophy. But critics argued that including the term being defined in the definition, as Kendi did, constitutes circular reasoning.

Kendi’s defenders stated that the opponents failed to understand that racism is not about people; it is about power, and Kendi’s term accurately captures that dynamic.

The following year, an unarmed Black man named George Floyd was killed by a White police officer in Minneapolis, sparking nationwide rioting. Activists dubbed the civil upheaval America’s “racial reckoning.” Corporations donated millions of dollars to Black Lives Matter and other social justice organizations, while Twitter’s CEO gave $10 million to Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research.

Time Magazine named Kendi to its 2020 Time 100 list, ranking him among the world’s most influential individuals.

Kendi said, “I’m focused on using any influence I may have to challenge racism, to eliminate racial inequity and injustice, and to build an antiracist world.”

What exactly was Kendi’s influence?

During America’s “racial reckoning,” Kennedy Mitchum, a 22-year-old Black woman who graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, wrote to

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She complained that racism is not only prejudice against a certain race; as the dictionary defines it, it’s both prejudice combined with social and institutional power. Mind you, the second definition of racism in the Merriam-Webster dictionary actually conveyed this concept, but it sounded like Mitchum wanted the dictionary to mirror Kendi’s definition.

Merriam-Webster’s editors chose to update their second definition of racism.

The original definition, which described racism as a doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles, or a political or social system founded on racism, was changed to “the systemic oppression of one racial group for the social, economic, and political advantage of another; specifically, White supremacy.”

Merriam-Webster’s editor noted that the revision was long overdue. The editor went on to say, “While our focus will always be on faithfully reflecting the real-world usage of a word, not promoting a particular viewpoint, we have concluded that omitting any mention of

According to Kendi, one may only be racist or antiracist; hence, the editor made the correction for antiracist reasons. Commentators joked that the dictionary had gone woke, while serious political experts disputed whether Merriam-Webster’s modification was a step forward toward better understanding or a hasty fix to address a complaint during America’s “racial reckoning.”

It is not the altered definition that matters. It’s what influenced the shift. A few years later, Kendi updated his book, How to Be an Antiracist, with a new preface.

Kendi admitted that his detractors were correct.

Kendi wrote, “I spend a lot of time explaining and defining the terms “racist policy” and “racist idea” or “antiracist policy” and “antiracist idea.” And then I use those definitions to define the terms racist and antiracist for an individual.

I was so adamant about people coming to an understanding of those terms that I inserted them into these seminal definitions of what it means for an individual to be racist or antiracist. But that created circular definitions, where the terms “racist” and “antiracist” are used to define racist and antiracist. This error happened because I lost sight of something critical: definitions must be able to stand on their own.”

Merriam-Webster’s editors should have respectfully informed Mitchum that their definition could stand on its own. Instead, Kendi gets to correct himself, but the corrections in the dictionary remain.

NFL’s head coaching ranks starting to look more like the league they lead (TriceEdneyWire.com)—“It’s hard to tell what, if any, trends will emerge from this hiring cycle. Maybe the emphasis on diverse candidates will continue. Maybe team owners have opened their minds to defensive-minded coaches. Perhaps the ‘leader of men’ model will continue. Nothing has been solved, per se. But there’s cautious optimism the league is in a place to grow from here.”—Jonathan Jones, CBS Sports Two years ago this week, I met with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, along with my fellow civil rights leaders, to discuss the failure of the “Rooney Rule” to diversify the ranks of the League’s head coaches.

At that time, despite nearly 20 years under a requirement that teams interview at least one candidate of color for head coaching and senior football operation positions, only one of the NFL’s 32 head coaches was Black. Brian Flores had just been fired after three seasons as Miami Dolphins head coach and was suing the NFL and several teams for racist hiring practices.

Thanks in large part to our advocacy, the 2024 season will begin with nine head coaches of color, including six Black coaches.

It’s a far cry from the parity we continue to seek in a League where more than half the players are Black, but it is significant progress for which Commissioner Goodell, team owners and senior leadership should be acknowledged.

The first move of the year to replace a White head coach with a coach of color came from Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who has been outspoken about inequality and prejudice. He recently founded

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To Be Equal the group, Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, and endowed a Chair in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Massachusetts General Hospital.

He downplayed the significance of Jerod Mayo becoming the Patriots’ first Black head coach, saying “I chose the best head coach for this organization.” But Mayo acknowledged the moment: “What I will say, though, is I do see color because I believe if you don’t see color, you can’t see racism … It does matter so we can try to fix the problem that we all know we have.”

On cue, anti-racial justice activist Stephen Miller, a former advisor to Donald Trump, filed an EEOC complaint against the NFL, trying to keep the League from fixing the problem we all know we have.

Miller is calling for the same thing the National Urban League called for two years ago: elimination of the Rooney Rule. However, we were seeking a better way to achieve equal opportunity for candidates of color. Miller is seeking to eliminate opportunities for candidates of color.

Since we met with Commissioner Goodell, the NFL expanded the Rooney Rule to require teams interview at least

two external minority candidates for head coach and general manager jobs.

As we noted at the time, the effect of the rule as it had existed was for team decision-makers to regard interviews with candidates of color as an extraneous step, rather than an integral part of the hiring process.

The coach that Mayo replaced, Bill Belichick, inadvertently proved the ineffectiveness of the Rooney Rule and triggered Flores’ lawsuit when he texted Flores to congratulate him on being named head coach of the New York Giants—three days before Flores was scheduled to interview for the job.

Belichick thought he was texting Brian Daboll. Not only had the Giants already decided to hire Daboll before even interviewing Flores—presumably to comply with the letter, if not the spirit, of the Rooney Rule—but the team already was sharing the news.

The League also created the Coach and Front Office Accelerator, which allows diverse candidates for positions across the League to network with club owners and executives and participate in personal and professional development workshops.

A federal judge ruled in July that Flores, now defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings, may proceed to trial with his claims against the NFL, Denver Broncos, New York Giants and Houston Texans, but must pursue his claims against the Dolphins through arbitration.

Regardless of the outcome of Flores’ legal action, he has helped propel the League toward equity and opportunity.

Big polluters vs. our kids

by Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Far too often, big polluters feed us the lie that we have to choose between clean air or a healthy economy. Last week, the Biden-Harris administration made a big move that shows Americans do not have to choose. The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) released updated protective air quality standards that will save both lives and money.

Simply put, if you work outdoors, have a child with asthma, or an elderly family member with a cardiopulmonary disease, this new standard will make it easier to breathe.

The new National Ambient Air Quality Standards for fine particulate matter, or soot, are a big deal. Soot is one of the most dangerous and prevalent air pollutants. It enters the deepest parts of our lungs and bloodstream where it causes asthma, heart attacks, and premature death.

Moms Clean Air Force, a self-described “Mompartisan” group founded to protect children from air pollution and climate impacts, notes that “air pollution can lead to premature births, lower birth weight, and neurocognitive impacts as particulate matter can reach the developing fetal brain.”

Soot is created by coal plants, diesel vehicles, and factories. And this new rule is expected to clean up the air for the 91 million people who live in counties that experience unhealthy spikes in daily soot pollution.

The most impacted communities? You

guessed it: communities of color and low-income communities.

It is the same old awful yet unsurprising story: redlining, racist zoning practices, and other factors have put Black and low-income neighborhoods near or downwind from the sources of air pollution. Fenceline communities near ports, highways, and power plants are disproportionately exposed to higher-than-average levels. Addressing soot pollution in our air has a unique urgency for these communities that bear the hardest brunt.

The new EPA standard will directly save an estimated 4,500 lives per year. It will prevent 5,700 new cases of asthma each year. As for the economic benefits, it will result in 290,000 fewer lost workdays per year and bring as much as $46 billion in net health benefits in 2032, when the standards are in full effect.

Reducing air pollution and protecting the air we breathe are moral obligations not just to our children but to future generations. EPA Administrator Michael Regan recognized as much when he told reporters the new standard would “shape the world our children will inherit tomorrow.”

Given the undeniable health and economic benefits of stronger soot standard, and the moral imperative of protecting our kids’ health and futures, you would expect passing the new standard to have been a slam dunk. But the updating of the soot standard faced fierce opposition. We must recognize that opposition for what it was: outra-

geously immoral.

Big polluters and their allies fought tooth and nail against the improved soot standard. They relied on the same misinformation they have used for years, which has never once come true.

They made up fake obstacles to complying with improved standards. For example, they tried to use wildfire smoke as a reason why certain jurisdictions would not be able to comply with the new standards. But the EPA has clearly stated that soot from wildfires can be discounted from regulatory decisions.

The fossil fuel industry and other polluters grasped at every straw they could. But we know that protecting clean air leads to stronger economies, better health outcomes, and is simply the right thing to do. More than 600,000 people submitted public comments to the EPA last year in support of stronger standards. The Biden-Harris administration deserves credit for heeding the call.

The opposition from big polluters is a reminder that there will always be those who try to stop us when we reach for a better future. That even goes for something as basic as cleaner air and the longer life expectancies, economic opportunity, and healthier bodies that come with it.

It is also a reminder of our moral obligation to keep fighting to make sure the benefits of the new EPA standard reach the communities that need them most.

(Ben Jealous is executive director of the Sierra Club and a professor of practice at the University of Pennsylvania.)

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CONDITIONS OF SALE Effective with the August 3, 2020, Sheriff Sale of real estate and all such monthly public sales thereafter shall be conducted virtually through video conferencing technology or live streaming. The Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office shall provide for up to twenty-five persons to participate in person in the Gold Room, 4th Floor Allegheny County Courthouse. ALL PARTICIPANTS OR BIDDERS MUST BE REGISTERED AT LEAST 7 DAYS BEFORE THE DATE OF THE SALE IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE (VIRTUALLY OR IN PERSON) AT THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SALES OF REAL ESTATE. REGISTRATION WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY SHERIFF’S WEBSITE: SHERIFFALLEGHENYCOUNTY.COM. The Successful bidder will pay full amount of bid in CASH, CERTIFIED CHECK OR CASHIERS CHECK at time of sale, otherwise the property will be resold at the next regular Sheriffs Sale; provided, that if the sale is made on MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2024 the bidder may pay ten percent of purchasing price but not less than 75.00 in CASH, CERTIFIED CHECK, OR CASHIERS CHECK THE DAY IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE SALE, e.g. TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2024, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 8:30AM AND 2:30PM IN THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE. And the balance in CASH, CERTIFIED CHECK, OR CASHIERS CHECK, on or before MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2024, at 10:00 O’CLOCK A.M. The property will be resold at the next regular Sheriff’s Sale if the balance is not paid, and in such case all money’s paid in at the original sale shall be applied to any deficiency in the price of which property is resold, and provided further that if the successful bidder is the plaintiff in the execution the bidder shall pay full amount of bid ON OR BEFORE THE FIRST MONDAY OF THE FOLLOWING MONTH, OTHERWISE WRIT WILL BE RETURNED AND MARKED “REAL ESTATE UNSOLD” and all monies advanced by plaintiff will be applied as required by COMMON PLEAS COURT RULE 3129.2 (1) (a).

FORFEITED SALES WILL BE POSTED IN THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE AND LISTED ON THE SHERIFF OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY WEB SITE. AMENDMENT OF THE CODE SECOND CLASS COUNTY NEW CHAPTER 475 THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY CODE OF ORDINANCES, CHAPTER 475, ENTITLED TAXATION IS HEREBY AMENDED THROUGH THE CREATION OF A NEW ARTICLE XII, ENTITLED, “SHERIFF SALES”, AND COMPRISED AS FOLLOWS: SUBSECTION 475-60: RECORDING OF DEEDS AND NOTIFICATION OF SHERIFFS SALES TO TAXING BODIES. A. FOR ANY REAL PROPERTY OFFERED AT SHERIFFS SALE DUE TO NONPAYMENT OF REAL ESTATE TAXES AND PURCHASED BY A THIRD PARTY THROUGH SUCH SALE, THE SHERIFF SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR FILING THE DEED AND, WITHIN SEVEN DAYS OF FILING OF THE SHERIFFS DEED, PROVIDE WRITTEN NOTICE OF THE CONVEYANCE TO THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY OFFICE OF PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS. THE WRITTEN NOTICE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBSECTION SHALL INCLUDE THE DATE OF THE SALE, IDENTIFICATION OF THE PROPERTY SOLD BY BOTH ADDRESS AND LOT AND BLOCK NUMBER, AND THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE INDIVIDUALS OR OTHER ENTITY THAT PURCHASED THE PROPERTY. B. AT THE TIME OF THE SALE THE SHERIFF SHALL COLLECT ALL REQUISITE FILING COSTS, REALTY TRANSFER TAXES AND FEES, NECESSARY TO PROPERLY RECORD THE DEED. C. WITHIN SEVEN DAYS OF RECEIPT OF WRITTEN NOTICE FROM THE SHERIFF, THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY OFFICE OF PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS SHALL FORWARD COPIES OF SUCH NOTICE TO ALL TAXING BODIES LEVYING REAL ESTATE TAXES ON THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE MUNICIPALITY AND SCHOOL DISTRICT WHERE THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED. AS REQUIRED BY SECTION 14 OF ACT NO. 77 OF 1986, THE COST OF ALL DOCUMENTARY STAMPS FOR REAL ESTATE TRANSFER TAXES (STATE, LOCAL, AND SCHOOL) WILL BE DEDUCTED BY THE SHERIFF FROM THE PROCEEDS OF THE SALE. Purchasers must record their deeds and pay the necessary recording fees. Pursuant to Rule 3136 P.R.C.P. NOTICE is hereby given that a schedule of distribution will be filed by the Sheriff not later than 30 days from date of sale and that distribution will be made in accordance with the schedule unless exceptions are filed thereto within 10 days thereafter. No further notice of the filing of the schedule of distribution will be given.

A Land Bank formed under 68 Pa. C.S.A. 2101 et seq. may exercise its right to bid pursuant to 68 Pa. C.S.A. 2117(d) (2) through Pa. C.S.A. 2117(d) (4) on certain properties listed for sale under the municipal claims and Tax Lien Law, 53 P.S. 7101 et seq. The Sheriff of Allegheny County will honor the terms of payment which the Land Bank has entered with any municipalities having a claim against the property. If the Land Bank tenders a bid under Pa. C.S.A. 2117(d)(3) or 2117(d)(4) the property will not be offered for sale to others and the Property will be considered sold to the Land Bank for the Upset Price as defined in P.S.7279 and no other bids will be accepted.

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DEFENDANTS: JASON J. MAZZEI AND SUSAN T. MAZZEI ********************** CASE NO. MG-16-000895 *********** DEBT $421,303.99 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY THOMAS 0. VREELAND, ESQUIRE ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY BASSI, VREELAND & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 62 EAST WHEELING STREET WASHINGTON, PA 15301 ************************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (724) 228-7000 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION ******************* In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Hampton: HAVING ERECTED THEREON, A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 3238 MCALISTER FARM LANE, ALLISON PARK, PA 15101. DEED BOOK 11786, PAGE 223 BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1078-L-11.

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3MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Siale Havili d/b/a Tuff Capital Investments, LLC ********************** CASE NO. GD-23-002866 ************************* DEBT $126,339.20 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Lois M. Vitti ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 663 Fifth Street, Oakmont, PA 15139 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER 412-281-1725 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Swissvale: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 7523 DICKSON STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15218. DEED BOOKDE -18399, PAGE205. BLOCK AND LOT 178H-l l 1 4MAR24

DEFENDANTS: DIXIE LEE SCHAFFER A/K/A DIXIE SCHAFFER ********************** CASE NO. MG-22-000962 ************************* DEBT $145,744.10 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Michelle Pierro, Esq. (PA ID No. 317454) ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY Tucker Arensberg, P.C. 1500 One PPG Place Pittsburgh, PA 15222 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 566-1212 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, C o u n t y o f A l l e g h e n y, B e t h e l P a r k Municipality: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS: 949 CLIFTON ROAD, BETHEL PARK, PA 15102. DEED BOOK VOLUME 3346, PAGE 370 Block / Lot# 773-J-245 5MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Cindy Buzzelli, Dante A. Buzzelli ********************** CASE NO. MG-23-000436 ************************* DEBT $108,956.12 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY KML LAW GROUP, P.C. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY SUlTE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 627-1322 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, MUNICIPALITY OF PENN HILLS: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 161 LAURIE DRIVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15235. DEED BOOK 16128, PAGE 273.

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6MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Marc W. Waltonbaugh ********************** CASE NO. MG-23-000540 ************************* DEBT $168,407.98 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY KML LAW GROUP, P.C. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY SUlTE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 627-1322 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, TOWNSHIP OF ELIZABETH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2060 SCENERY DRIVE, ELIZABETH, PA 15037. DEED BOOK 17239, PAGE 204.

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7MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Robert Zwigart ********************** CASE NO. GD-23-009172 ************************* DEBT $49,214.80 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY KML LAW GROUP, P.C. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY SUlTE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 627-1322 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 29TH WARD CITY OF PITTSBURGH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 13 CALHOUN AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15210. DEED BOOK 11249, PAGE 75.

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8MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Edward Dudley, Irisha Dudley ********************** CASE NO. MG-23-000743 ************************* DEBT $66,250.40 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY KML LAW GROUP, P.C. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY SUlTE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 627-1322 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 8TH WARD CITY OF MCKEESPORT: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 3017 JERSEY STREET, MCKEESPORT, PA 15132. DEED BOOK 12765, PAGE 31.

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9MAR24 DEFENDANTS: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF HERMAN C. STAPLE AKA HERMAN STAPLE DECEASED, HERMAN STAPLE, II SOLELY IN HIS CAPACITY AS HEIR OF HERMAN C. S TA P L E A K A H E R M A N S TA P L E DECEASED ********************** CASE NO. MG-20-000024 ************************* DEBT $81,546.10 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY KML LAW GROUP, P.C. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY SUlTE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 627-1322 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 12TH WARD CITY OF PITTSBURGH: •

13MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Rosemarie Reznik, Known Heir of Rosemarie Friel, deceased; Mary Ellen Friel, Known Heir of Rosemarie Friel, deceased; Kathleen Freyvogel, Known Heir of Rosemarie Friel, deceased; Jim Kennedy, Known Heir of Rosemarie Friel, deceased; Catherine Hester, Known Heir of Rosemarie Friel, deceased; and Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns and All Persons, Firms or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest from or under Rosemarie Friel, deceased mortgagor. ********************** CASE NO. MG-21-000216 ************************* DEBT $37,984.81 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY PATRICK J WESNER, ESQUIRE ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 9000 MIDLANTIC DRIVE, STE 300, PO BOX 5054, MT LAUREL, NJ 08054 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (856) 810-5815 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Forest Hills, HAVING currently erected thereon a single family dwelling being known as 321 Avenue F, Pittsburgh PA 15221, Deed Book 11427 Page 636, Block and Lot 0373-P-00091-0000-00

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10MAR24 DEFENDANTS: PETER E. WATSON, SOLELY IN HIS CAPACITY AS HEIR OF GREGORY L. WATSON, DECEASED ********************** CASE NO. MG-19-000670 ************************* DEBT $137,945.00 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY KML LAW GROUP, P.C. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY SUlTE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 627-1322 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, TOWNSHIP OF SOUTH PARK: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1816 RENEE DRIVE, SOUTH PARK, PA 15129. DEED BOOK 7189, PAGE 143.

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11MAR24 DEFENDANTS: BRIAN MOHRING AKA BRJAN L. MOHRING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ********************** CASE NO. MG-22-000835 ************************* DEBT $49,609.72 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY KML LAW GROUP, P.C. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY SUlTE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 627-1322 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF TURTLE CREEK: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 385 LARIMER AVENUE, TURTLE CREEK, PA 15145. DEED BOOK 13125, PAGE 126.

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12MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Bernadette Haase, known heir of Carole Ondish a/k/a Carole A. Ondish, Deceased, and Unknown heirs, successors, assigns and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title or interest from or under Carole Ondish a/k/a Carole A. Ondish, Deceased, ********************** CASE NO. GD-19-012423 ************************* DEBT $128,278.23 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY PATRICK J WESNER, ESQUIRE ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 9000 MIDLANTIC DRIVE, STE 300, PO BOX 5054, MT LAUREL, NJ 08054 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (856) 810-5815 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, and the Township of Indiana HAVING currently erected thereon a single family dwelling being known as 5024 Lea Drive, Cheswick, PA 15024, Deed Book 13218 Page 447, Block and Lot 0957-C00341-0000-00

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14MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Georgene H. Davis, Thomas C. Davis ********************** CASE NO. MG-23-000806 ************************* DEBT $58,224.90 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY LOGS Legal Group LLP. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 3600 Horizon Drive, Suite 150, King Of Prussia, PA 19406 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (610) 278-6800 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF MUNHALL: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1228 RAVINE STREET, MUNHALL, PA 15120. DEED BOOK VOLUME 10711, PAGE 005, BLOCK AND LOT 0180-E00175-0000-00.

15MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Dante P. Williams, Sr. a/k/a Dante P. Williams ********************** CASE NO. MG-22-000843 ************************* DEBT $163,237.52 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY LOGS Legal Group LLP. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 3600 Horizon Drive, Suite 150, King Of Prussia, PA 19406 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (610) 278-6800 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF WHITE OAK: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1664 FAWCETT AVENUE, MCKEESPORT, PA 15131. DEED BOOK VOLUME 17557, PAGE 103, BLOCK AND LOT 0462-D00086-0000-00.

16MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Carolyn Goettel ********************** CASE NO. MG-19-000621 ************************* DEBT $27,756.59 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY LOGS Legal Group LLP. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 3600 Horizon Drive, Suite 150, King Of Prussia, PA 19406 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (610) 278-6800 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 29TH WARD OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH:HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1633 EAST CHERRYHILL STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15210. DEED BOOK VOLUME 5635, PAGE 317, BLOCK AND LOT 0059-E-00196-0000-00.

17MAR24 DEFENDANTS: JESSE GREGG ********************** CASE NO. MG-23-000650 ************************* DEBT $113,527.77 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY CHRISTINE L. GRAHAM, ESQUIRE ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY McCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 1420 WALNUT STREET, SUITE 1501 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19102 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 790-1010 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Glassport: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 302 Euclid Avenue, Glassport, Pennsylvania 15045. Deed Book Volume 18694, Page 537. Block and Lot Number 0467-L- 00118-0000-00.

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18MAR24 DEFENDANTS: RICHARD M. HALAPIN AND JOEL E. HALAPIN ********************** CASE NO. MG-23-000511 ************************* DEBT $115,889.65 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY CHRISTINE L. GRAHAM, ESQUIRE ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY McCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 1420 WALNUT STREET, SUITE 1501 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19102 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 790-1010 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Franklin Park:

24MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Triple D’s Estate LLC. Darrell Johnson ********************** CASE NO. MG-23-000963 ************************* DEBT: $148,868.17 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY KML LAW GROUP,P.C. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 627-1322 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 12TH WARD CITY OF PITTSBURGH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 6551 DEARY STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15206. DEED BOOK 18731, PAGE 70.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 124-L-96.

Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 2635 Woodmont Lane, Wexford, Pennsylvania 15090.

Deed Book Volume 12335, Page 2131.

Block and Lot Number 1347-F-001100000-00.

19MAR24 DEFENDANTS: GREGORY A. BIGENHO ********************** CASE NO. MG-23-000669 ************************* DEBT $100,672.87 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY CHRISTINE L. GRAHAM, ESQUIRE ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY McCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 1420 WALNUT STREET, SUITE 1501 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19102 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 790-1010 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 1137 Hulton Road, Verona, Pennsylvania 15147. Deed Book Volume 16086, Page 489. Block and Lot Number 0632-A­00134-0000-00.

20MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Scottsdale REI, LLC ********************** CASE NO. GD-23-007009 ************************* DEBT: $554,541.37 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Robert P. Wendt, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 275 Curry Hollow Rd, Bldg. 1, Suite 280, Pittsburgh, PA 15236 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER 914-219-5787 x 490 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION All the following described real estate situated in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, and Municipality of Mt. Lebanon.

Having erected thereon a residential dwelling being known and numbered as 22 Glen Ridge Lane, Pittsburgh, PA 15243; Deed Book 18546, Page 167; which has a Parcel Identification Number of 100-S-103.

21MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Wholesale Housing, LLC ********************** CASE NO. GD-23-008766 ************************* DEBT: $147,671.15 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Robert P. Wendt, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 275 Curry Hollow Rd, Bldg. 1, Suite 280, Pittsburgh, PA 15236 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER 914-219-5787 x 490 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION All the following described real estate situated in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, and Borough of Port Vue. Having erected thereon a residential two-family dwelling being known and numbered as 1726 Romine Avenue, McKeesport, PA 15133; Deed Book 18360, Page 160; which has a Parcel Identification Number of 465-A-245.

22MAR24 DEFENDANTS: JANEY LAMB PERRY, KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF SALLY SPENCER, BRENDA LAMB, KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF SALLY SPENCER, AND UNKNOWN SURVIVING HEIRS OF SALLY SPENCER ********************** CASE NO. GD-23-005833 ************************* DEBT: $123,717.21 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY BUCHANAN INGERSOLL & ROONEY PC ERIN H. CONROY. ESQUIRE ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY UNION TRUST BUILDING 501 GRANT STREET. SUITE 200 PITTSBURGH. PA 15219-4413 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412)562-8800 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION ln the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh, 3rd Ward: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS, BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 23 VINE STREET, PITTSBURGH PA 15219.

DEED BOOK VOLUME 5747, PAGE 253.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 2-H-262.

23MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Triple D’s Estate LLC. Darrell Johnson ********************** CASE NO. GD-23-011418 ************************* DEBT: $148,868.17 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY KML LAW GROUP,P.C. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 627-1322 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 29TH WARD CITY OF PITTSBURGH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 109 PARKFIELD STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15210. DEED BOOK 18921, PAGE 471.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 95-G-87.

25MAR24 DEFENDANTS: LORI COULTER AKA LORRAINE M. COULTER ********************** CASE NO. MG-23-000419 ************************* DEBT: $26,728.69 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY KML LAW GROUP,P.C. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 627-1322 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, MUNICIPALITY OF BETHEL PARK: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 323 SUNSET DRIVE, BETHEL PARK, PA 15102. DEED BOOK 5946, PAGE 417.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 568-P-205.

26MAR24 DEFENDANTS: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF CAROLINE ANN CORVELLO A/K/A CAROLINE A. CORVELLO, DECEASED ********************** CASE NO. MG-22-000952 ************************* DEBT: $50,225.82 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY KML LAW GROUP,P.C. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 627-1322 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, MUNICIPALITY OF PENN HILLS: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 559 HAMIL ROAD, VERONA, PA 15147. DEED BOOK 5104, PAGE 521. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 446-M-39.

27MAR24 DEFENDANTS: PAUL D. MATISZ AKA PAUL MATISZ ********************** CASE NO.MG-23-000843 ************************* DEBT: $98,022.95 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY KML LAW GROUP,P.C. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 627-1322 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, TOWNSHIP OF HARRISON: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2512 MONROE STREET, NATRONA HEIGHTS, PA 15065. DEED BOOK 16808, PAGE 401.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1679-F-27.

28MAR24 DEFENDANTS: MICHAEL SERVEDIO, ROBIN SERVEDIO ********************** CASE NO.MG-23-000836 ************************* DEBT: $196,333.22 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY KML LAW GROUP,P.C. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 627-1322 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, MUNICIPALITY OF MONROEVILLE: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 3906 EVERGREEN DRIVE, MONROEVILLE, PA 15146. DEED BOOK 13393, PAGE 65.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 742-M-353.

29MAR24 DEFENDANTS: PATRICK K. O’SHEA ********************** CASE NO.MG-23-000757 ************************* DEBT: $47,670.27 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY KML LAW GROUP,P.C. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 627-1322 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, MUNICIPALITY OF MONROEVILLE: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 144 ROSECREST DRIVE, MONROEVILLE, PA 15146. DEED BOOK 12389, PAGE 480.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 640-C-330.

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30MAR24 DEFENDANTS: NADINE KUTSENKOW AS EXECUTRIX OF THE ESTATE OF PATRICIA N. CHATHAM, DECEASED ********************** CASE NO.MG-23-000809 ************************* DEBT: $22,007.78 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY KML LAW GROUP,P.C. ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 627-1322 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF INGRAM:

36MAR24 PLAINTIFF(S): BOROUGH OF BELLEVUE VS. DEFENDANTS: WILLIAM MOODEY AND CERISE MOODEY ********************** CASE NO.GD 19-016812 ************************* DEBT: $17,642.35 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 242-4400 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Bellevue:

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEIN”G KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 16 ADMIRAL DEWEY AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15205. DEED BOOK 11187, PAGE 18.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 70-S-138.

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 130 MEADE AVE., PITTSBURGH, PA 15202. DEED BOOK 15579, PAGE 447.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 160-P-178.

40MAR24 DEFENDANTS: WILLIAM J MCGOWAN; DANIELLE A. GIGLIOTTI, IN HER CAPACITY AS HEIR OF KIMBERLY A. MCGOWAN, DECEASED; WILLIAM F. MCGOWAN, IN HIS CAPACITY AS HEIR OF KIMBERLY A. MCGOWAN, DECEASED; UNKNOWN HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS, AND ALL PERSONS, FIRMS OR ASSOCIATIONS CLAIMING RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST FROM OR UNDER KIMBERLY A. MCGOWAN, DECEASED ********************** CASE NO.MG-15-000802 ************************* DEBT: $127,299.26 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Jeff Calcagno, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY Brock & Scott, PLLC 2011 RENAISSANCE BOULEVARD, SUITE 100 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (844) 856-6646 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 19TH W-ARO OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH

31MAR24 DEFENDANTS: LAUREN J. MEDVED ********************** CASE NO.MG-23-000570 ************************* DEBT: $181,587.63 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 133 GAITHER DRIVE, SUITE F MOUNT LAUREL, NJ 08054 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER 855-225-6906 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 19th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 155 Gaskel St, Pittsburgh, PA 15211. Deed Book Volume 18429, Page 259. Block and Lot 0004-F00155-0000-00.

32MAR24 DEFENDANTS: VALERIE LEPAGE; KEVIN F. MCELROY ********************** CASE NO.MG-19-000611 ************************* DEBT: $401,973.25 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 133 GAITHER DRIVE, SUITE F MOUNT LAUREL, NJ 08054 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER 855-225-6906 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Marshall: Having erected thereon a Townhouse known and numbered as 475 Fairmont Drive Wexford, PA 15090. Deed Book Volume 16944, Page 565. Block and Lot 1999-L00019-0000-00.

33MAR24 PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh and School District of Pittsburgh VS. DEFENDANTS: Anthony Bentley, Jr. ********************** CASE NO.GD 17-000878 ************************* DEBT: $2,757.47 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 281-0587 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh Ward 13: Having erected thereon a two story brick house being known as 7409 Idlewild Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15208. Deed Book Volume 15419, Page 336. Block & Lot No. 174-L-3 l.

34MAR24 PLAINTIFF(S): Woodland Hills School District VS. DEFENDANTS: Jones Property LLC ********************** CASE NO.GD 19-000884 ************************* DEBT: $8,448.71 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 281-0587 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Chalfant: Having erected thereon a one story frame house being known as 134 Parkway Avenue, East Pittsburgh, PA 15112. Deed Book Volume 16006, Page 594. Block & Lot No. 374-L-114.

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37MAR24 PLAINTIFF(S): Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough VS. DEFENDANTS: BILLIE ASHANTI HOLT AND GRADY WHITE ********************** CASE NO.GD 23-002237 ************************* DEBT: $12,680.77 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 242-4400 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1239 FRANKLIN AVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 18148, PAGE 454. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 233-F-254.

38MAR24 PLAINTIFF(S): Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough VS. DEFENDANTS: BURLEIGH S. BIGELOW AND PHILIP BIGELOW ********************** CASE NO.GD 21-012994 ************************* DEBT: $15,318.78 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 242-4400 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1912 LAKETON ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 16657, PAGE 275. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 297-E-211.

39MAR24 PLAINTIFF(S): PENN HILLS SCHOOL DISTRICT VS. DEFENDANTS: Meeghan C. Triggs ********************** CASE NO.GD 23-001467 ************************* DEBT: $12,993.20 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 242-4400 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 149 IDLEWOOD ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15235. DEED BOOK 17223, PAGE 453. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 538-P-102.

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Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 328 FERNHILL AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15226. Deed Book Volume 15038, Page 201. Block and Lot Number 0062-H-00114-0000-00 41MAR24 DEFENDANTS: NICHOLAS AKINKUOYE ********************** CASE NO.MG-12-000860 ************************* DEBT: $254,184.19 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Jeff Calcagno, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY Brock & Scott, PLLC 2011 RENAISSANCE BOULEVARD, SUITE 100 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (844) 856-6646 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF EDGEWOOD Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 319 EAST SWISSVALE AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15218. Deed Book Volume 12747, Page 47.

Block and Lot Number 0233-N-001240000-00 42MAR24 DEFENDANTS: VIRGINIA G. MURRAY ********************** CASE NO.MG-19-000630 ************************* DEBT: $55,762.20 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Jeff Calcagno, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY Brock & Scott, PLLC 2011 RENAISSANCE BOULEVARD, SUITE 100 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (844) 856-6646 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWNSHIP OF ELIZABETH Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 1112 SUMMERSET DRIVE, MCKEESPORT, PA 15135, AKA 1112 SOMMERSET DRIVE, MCKEESPORT, PA 15135. Deed Book Volume 14304, Page 60.

Block and Lot Number 0652-C-001570000-00 43MAR24 DEFENDANTS: MICHAEL PESTA, IV, HEIR IN HIS CAPACITY, TO THE ESTATE OF SHIRLEY PESTA, DECEASED; CATHERINE BARNETT, HEIR IN HER CAPACITY TO THE ESTATE OF SHIRLEY PESTA, DECEASED; UNKNOWN HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS, AND ALL PERSONS, FIRMS, OR ASSOCIATIONS CLAIMING RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST FROM OR UNDER SHIRLEY PESTA, DECEASED ********************** CASE NO.MG-23-000355 ************************* DEBT: $136,987.22 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Jeff Calcagno, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY Brock & Scott, PLLC 2011 RENAISSANCE BOULEVARD, SUITE 100 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (844) 856-6646 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF MUNHALL Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 3708 SUPERIOR ST, HOMESTEAD, PA, 15120 AKA 3708 SUPERIOR ST, MUNHALL, PA 15120.

Deed Book Volume 4264, Page 684.

Block and Lot Number 0133-D-000710000-00

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45MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Emilio Valentine ********************** CASE NO.GD-20-011179 ************************* DEBT: $144,908.34 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Stephen M. Hladik, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY Hladik, Onorato and Federman, LLP 298 Wissahickon Avenue, North Wales, PA 19454 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 855-9521 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 2ND WARD CITY OF PITTSBURGH:

50MAR24 DEFENDANTS: ANITA F. MACIAS ********************** CASE NO.MG-23-000653 ************************* DEBT: $185,777.39 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY CHRISTINE L. GRAHAM, ESQUIRE ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY McCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 1420 WALNUT STREET, SUITE 1501 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19102 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 790-1010 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Mt. Lebanon: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 433 Clokey Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15228. Deed Book Volume 15218, Page 120. Block and Lot Number 0098-N-00166-0000-00.

62MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Leo A. Giel, Jr. ********************** CASE NO.MG-23-000636 ************************* DEBT: $12,699.80 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY PATRICK J WESNER, ESQUIRE ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 9000 MIDLANTIC DRIVE, STE 300, PO BOX 5054, MT LAUREL, NJ 08054 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (856) 810-5815 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Jefferson Hills, HAVING currently erected thereon a single family dwelling being known as 1234 Collins Avenue, Clairton, PA 15025, Deed Book 11575 Page 207, Block and Lot 1421-B-00012-0000-00.

68MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Michael R. Winter ********************** CASE NO.GD-23-010514 ************************* DEBT: $29,116.70 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Stem & Eisenberg, PC ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY The Shops at Valley Square, 1581 Main Street, Suite 200 Warrington, PA 18976 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 572-8111 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny and the 18th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh:

H AV I N G E R E C T E D T H E R E O N A CONDOMINIUM UNIT BEING UNIT 4-A IN “GATEWAY TOWERS” BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 320 FORT DUQUESNE BOULEVARD, UNIT 4-A, PITTSBURGH, PA 15222. DEED BOOK VOLUME 12179, PAGE 32. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1- C-1662-A004.

56MAR24 PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANTS: Alice Street Investments, LLC ********************** CASE NO.GD 23-007792 ************************* DEBT: $3,759.68 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 281-0587 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of McKees Rocks:

46MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Bishnu P. Acharya and Rohit Acharya ********************** CASE NO.MG-23-000466 ************************* DEBT: $196,667.38 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Stephen M. Hladik, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY Hladik, Onorato and Federman, LLP 298 Wissahickon Avenue, North Wales, PA 19454 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 855-9521 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF BALDWIN: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 4817 E. WILLOCK ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15227. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18194, PAGE 540. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 247-D-272.

47MAR24 DEFENDANTS: WILLIAM E. BROADUS, KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF LOIS J. BROADUS, ANNA MARIE BROADUS, KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF LOIS J. BROADUS, THOMAS E. BROADUS, KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF LOIS J. BROADUS, BRENDA CHARMAINE BROADUS, KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF LOIS J. BROADUS, KEDREN C. BROADUS, KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF LOIS J. BROADUS, LEATHIA L. BROADUS, KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF LOIS J. BROADUS, JAVON BROADUS, KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF LOIS J. BROADUS, SHIRLEY BROADUS, KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF LOIS J. BROADUS, AMELIA D. BROADUS, KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF LOIS J. BROADUS, THOMAS E. BROADUS, KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF LOIS J. BROADUS, WILLIAM E. BROADUS, KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF LOIS J. BROADUS, AND UNKNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF LOIS J. BROADUS ********************** CASE NO.GD-23-002894 ************************* DEBT: $87,245.44 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY CHRISTINE L. GRAHAM, ESQUIRE ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY McCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 1420 WALNUT STREET, SUITE 1501 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19102 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 790-1010 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 116 McAlister Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15235 AKA 116 McAlister Drive, Penn Hills, Pennsylvania 15235. Deed Book Volume 15012, Page 528. Block and Lot Number 0637-E-003550000-00 48MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Ryan T. Reed ********************** CASE NO.MG-23-000921 ************************* DEBT: $183,917.91 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Powers Kirn, LLC ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY Eight Neshaminy Interplex, Suite 215, Trevose, PA 19053 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER 215-942-2090 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Baldwin: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 5016 Bluff Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15236.

Deed Book Volume I 8794, Page 86, Instrument 2022-5 I 03, Block and Lot Number 314D-280.

49MAR24

DEFENDANTS: KENNETH R. WATSON AND PATRICIA A. SNYDER AKA PATRICIA A. WATSON ********************** CASE NO.MG-23-000840 ************************* DEBT: $18,268.68 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY CHRISTINE L. GRAHAM, ESQUIRE ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY McCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 1420 WALNUT STREET, SUITE 1501 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19102 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 790-1010 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Bridgeville: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 113 Vesper Street, Bridgeville, Pennsylvania 15017.

Deed Book Volume 10087, Page 529.

Block and Lot Number 0255-S- 002420000-00.

51MAR24 DEFENDANTS: KELLY J. WIELAND ********************** CASE NO.MG-23-000958 ************************* DEBT: $87,134.48 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY LEON P. HALLER, ESQUIRE ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY PURCELL, KRUG AND HALLER 1719 NORTH FRONT STREET HARRISBURG, PA 17102 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER 717-234-4178 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Scott: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 210 LOCUST STREET CARNEGIE, PA 15106.

DEED BOOK VOLUME 17502, PAGE 181.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 102-L-154.

52MAR24

DEFENDANTS: LORf SHUCKHART AND ALL UNKNOWN HEIRs OF VIRGINIA L. LENKNER ********************** CASE NO.MG-22-000961 ************************* DEBT: $131,072.71 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Michelle Pierro, Esq. (PA ID No. 317454) ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY Tucker Arensberg, P.C. 1500 One PPG Place Pittsburgh, PA 15222 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 566-1212 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of West Homestead: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS: 1352 OVERDALE DRIVE, HOMESTEAD, PA 15120. DEED BOOK VOLUME 11487, PAGE 472 Block / Lot# 132-E-025 53MAR24 DEFENDANTS: BRADLEY FRYE ********************** CASE NO.MG-22-001059 ************************* DEBT: $174,191.21 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY CHRISTINE L. GRAHAM, ESQUIRE ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY McCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 1420 WALNUT STREET, SUITE 1501 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19102 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 790-1010 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Mt. Lebanon: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 840 Fruithurst Drive, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15228.

Deed Book Volume 17361, Page 440.

Block and Lot Number 0140-J-000620000-00.

55MAR24 PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANTS: Matthew M. Zupsic & Vicki J. Zupsic ********************** CASE NO.GD 22-000142 ************************* DEBT: $57,613.75 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 281-0587 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Frazer: Parcel #1: Having erected thereon a residential auxiliary building being known as 259 Bajack Lane, Tarentum, PA 15084. Deed Book Volume 9585, Page 300, Block and Lot Number 958-F- 246.

In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Indiana: Parcel #2: Being thereon vacant agricultural land known as Log Cabin Road, Tarentum, PA 15084. Deed Book Volume 8029, Page 203, Block and Lot Number 839-A-374.

Parcel #3: Being thereon vacant residential land known as Log Cabin Road, Tarentum, PA 15084. Deed Book Volume 8792, Page 301, Block and Lot Number 958-E-95.

Parcel #4: Being thereon vacant agricultural land known as Log Cabin Road, Tarentum, PA 15084. Deed Book Volume 7323, Page 516, Block and Lot Number 958-J-87.

Parcel #5: Being thereon vacant residential land known as Log Cabin Road, Tarentum, PA 15084. Deed Book Volume 6918, Page 365, Block and Lot Number 958-J-115.

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Having erected thereon a four-storycommercial apartment building being known as 908914 Island Avenue, McKees Rocks, PA 15136. Deed Book Volume 16760, Page 422. Block & Lot No. 74-J-85 57MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Rodney R. Kellar ********************** CASE NO.GD-23-010619 ************************* DEBT: $99,708.39 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Benjamin Hoen, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 965 Keynote Circle, Cleveland, OH 441311829 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER 216/739-5100 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST AND CLAIM OF RODNEY R. KELLAR OF, IN AND TO THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY: SITUATED IN THE TOWNSHIP OF HAMPTON, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 4095 CIRCLE DRIVE, ALLISON PARK, PA 15101.

DESCRIBED AT DEED BOOK 15144, PAGE 332, INSTRUMENT NO. 2013-2558, PARCEL NUMBER 718-E-271 58MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Maureen Zeher a/k/a Maureen C. Zeher and Paul Zeher a/k/a Paul S. Zeher ********************** CASE NO.MG-23-000051 ************************* DEBT: $288,688.03 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Stephen M. Hladik, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY Hladik, Onorato and Federman, LLP 298 Wissahickon Avenue, North Wales, PA 19454 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 855-9521 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, MUNICIPALITY OF BETHEL PARK: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2899 O’NEILL DRIVE, BETHEL PARK, PA 15102.

DEED BOOK VOLUME 10832, PAGE 140.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 567-L-315.

59MAR24 DEFENDANTS: DEBORAH A. BATTISTA and TSPGHl LLC ********************** CASE NO.GD-22-014412 ************************* DEBT: $32,513.27 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY JENNIFER TIS MIHOK, ESQUIRE ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 3706 BUTLER STREET, STE 327, PITTSBURGH, PA 15201 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER 412-860-0907 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PIECE OF GROUND SITUATE IN THE NINETEENTH WARD OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY AND COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2008 BROADWAY AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15216. PLAN BOOK VOLUME 20, PAGES 116-117. BLOCK AND LOT NO. 35-N-165 60MAR24 PLAINTIFF(S) MOON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT & CRESCENT TOWNSHIP VS. DEFENDANTS: JUDY D. WACKER-AMON ********************** CASE NO.GD-22-005097 ************************* DEBT: $46,602.73 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 445 Fort Pitt Boulevard, Suite 503, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER 412-391-0160 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWNSHIP OF CRESCENT: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 456 CRESCENT BOULEVARD EXTENSION, CRESCENT, PA 15046.

DEED BOOK 15504, PAGE 548. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 81l-R-330.

61MAR24 PLAINTIFF(S) County of Allegheny and School District of Pittsburgh VS. DEFENDANTS: David Sluganski, Known Heir of Dolores Sluganski, Deceased & The Unknown Heirs of Dolores Sluganski ********************** CASE NO.G.D. 12-003418 ************************* DEBT: $11,125.51 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 281-0587 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Mt. Oliver: Having erected thereon a two story brick house being known as 103 Church Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Deed Book Volume 4060, Page 200. Block & Lot No. 33-D-310.

63MAR24 DEFENDANTS: CORA MILLIKEN ********************** CASE NO.MG-23-000331 ************************* DEBT: $76,105.09 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Jeff Calcagno, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY Brock & Scott, PLLC 2011 RENAISSANCE BOULEVARD, SUITE 100 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (844) 856-6646 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 11TH WARD OF THE CITY OF MCKEESPORT Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 3022 RIVERVIEW ST, MCKEESPORT, PA 15132. Deed Book Volume 16535, Page 250.

Block and Lot Number 0381-R-000220000-00 64MAR24 PLAINTIFF(S) Penn Hills School District and Municipality of Penn Hills VS. DEFENDANTS: JAMES HALL, SHANNON HALL AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ********************** CASE NO.GD 23-002253 ************************* DEBT: $12,035.59 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 242-4400 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 8918 UPLAND TERRACE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15235. DEED BOOK 18815, PAGE 568. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 231-D-287.

65MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Fernando Montero and Kellie Montero, Occupant ********************** CASE NO.GD-23-006085 ************************* DEBT: $637,389.70 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY J. Michael McCague, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 408 Cedar Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER 412-803-3690 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of South Fayette: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2024 BERKLEY RIDGE DRIVE, MCDONALD, PA 15057. DEED BOOK VOLUME 17685, PAGE 254, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 258-N-120.

66MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Best Pittsburgh LLC ********************** CASE NO.MG-23-000697 ************************* DEBT: $126,716.94 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY PADGETT LAW GROUP ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 700 Darby Road, Suite 100 Havertown, PA 19083 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER 850-422-2520 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION IN THE BOROUGH OF BALDWIN, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY AND COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLESTORY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 3108 VERNON AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15227. DEED BOOK 18880, PAGE 226, INSTRUMENT NUMBER 2022-12929. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER O137-D-00118-0000-00.

67MAR24 DEFENDANTS: TANERA DALE-NAPPER AND THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ********************** CASE NO.MG-23-000941 ************************* DEBT: $77,839.25 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY LEON P. HALLER, ESQUIRE ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY PURCELL, KRUG AND HALLER 1719 NORTH FRONT STREET HARRISBURG, PA 17102 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER 717-234-4178 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 20th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A MOBILE HOME BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 446 HAMMOND STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15204. DEED BOOK VOLUME 13063, PAGE 233.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 42-M-107.

Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 918 Excelsior St, Pittsburgh, PA 15210. Deed Book Volume 13003, Page 62. Block and Lot Number 14C-25.

69MAR24 DEFENDANTS: Jennifer J. Beyerl and Kevin M. Beyerl ********************** CASE NO.MG-23-000460 ************************* DEBT: $48,031.88 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Stem & Eisenberg, PC ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY The Shops at Valley Square, 1581 Main Street, Suite 200 Warrington, PA 18976 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (215) 572-8111 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny and the 24th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 2100 Lautner Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212. Deed Book Volume 9928, Page 52. Block and Lot Number 48-F-3 l.

70MAR24 PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANTS: Safe Harbour Properties Three LLC ********************** CASE NO.G.D. 20-003364 ************************* DEBT: $7,166.93 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 281-0587 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of East McKeesport: Parcel #1: Having erected thereon a two story masonry frame house known as 846 Florence Avenue, East McKeesport, PA 15035.

Deed Book Volume 14714, Page 407.

Block & Lot No. 547-C-244.

Parcel #2: Being thereon vacant residential land known as Florence Avenue, East McKeesport, PA 15035. Deed Book Volume 14714, Page 407. Block & Lot No. 547-C-241.

71MAR24 PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANTS: The Unknown Heirs of Charles Fitzpatrick, Deceased ********************** CASE NO.GD 14-021730 ************************* DEBT: : $5,330.66 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 281-0587 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Clairton Ward 1: Having erected thereon a two story masonry frame house being known as 717 North 6th Street, Clairton, PA 15025. Deed Book Volume 13087, Page 206. Block & Lot No. 657-N-229.

72MAR24 PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANTS: Richard C. Pasqualle ********************** CASE NO.GD 09-003354 ************************* DEBT: $2,990.88 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 281-0587 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Clairton Ward 1: Having erected thereon a two story brick house being known as 427 North 4th Street, Clairton, PA 15025. Deed Book Volume 11402, Page 547. Block & Lot No. 764-C-84.

73MAR24 PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANTS: Nora G. Haugh ********************** CASE NO.GD 19-001160 ************************* DEBT: $3,261.11 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 281-0587 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Clairton Ward 2:

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Having erected thereon a two story brick house being known as 410 Mitchell Avenue, Clairton, PA 15025. Deed Book Volume 4632, Page 310. Block & Lot No. 879-M112.

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74MAR24 PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANTS: The Unknown Heirs of Paul R. Bezts, Deceased ********************** CASE NO.GD 23-009877 ************************* DEBT: $8,725.43 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 281-0587 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of North Versailles: Having erected thereon a one story frame house known as 217 James Avenue, North Versailles, PA 15137. Deed Book Volume 10356, Page 80. Block & Lot No. 547-P-265.

75MAR24 PLAINTIFF(S): Woodland Hills School District VS. DEFENDANTS: Antoinette Krantz and Gene Krantz ********************** CASE.: G.D. 08-016936 ************************* DEBT: $14,857.42 ***************** NAME OF ATTORNEY Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire ********************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ********************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER (412) 281-0587 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Turtle Creek: Having erected thereon a two story brick house being known as 421 Fairview Avenue, Turtle Creek, PA 15145. Deed Book Volume 11167, Page 279. Block & Lot No. 455-J300.

PROFESSIONAL Historic preservation and Economic development organization is requesting qualifications from: Development/ Grant Management Firms Qualifications relative to the following should be discussed: redevelopment planning and financial acquisition strategies, managing reporting for public programs, managing consulting teams, packaging other incentive programs, seeking community input, personnel available for this assignment, assistance in securing women and minority participation, and the me t hod and hour ly r at es o f compensation.

RFQ is due March 7, 2023 and sh oul d be m ailed t o: Yo u n g Preservationists Association, 700 River Avenue, Suite 318, Pittsburgh, PA 15212 PROFESSIONAL Historic preservation and Economic development organization is requesting qualifications from: General Contractor - to manage and oversee fabrication and installation of historic baseball plaques for Three Rivers Stadium Memorial.

Qualifications should include experience with Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage requirements, working in a team environment, personnel available for this assignment, and the method and rates of compensation.

RFQ is due February 29, 2023 and should be mailed to: Young Preservationists Association, 700 River Avenue, Suite 318, Pittsburgh, PA 15212 LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Prevention (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) intends to make an application to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for a Water Quality Management Permit for the discharge of industrial wastes in a manner which meet DEP requirements, from a facility located in South Park Township, Allegheny County. This is a new discharge of an intermittent nature, to McElheny Run for the treatment of impacted groundwater and surface water during construction phase remediation at the site located at 626 Cochran Mill Road in Pittsburgh.

This application is made under the provisions of the Clean Streams Law, the Act of June 22, 1937, P.L. 1987, as amended. Persons desiring additional information, or who wish to provide comment concerning this permit application should contact the Company as indicated above, or DEP at the follow address: Regional Water Quality Manager, 400 Waterfront Drive, Pittsburgh, PA , 15222 (412)442-4000 January 24, 2024.

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Estate of CUNNINGHAM RICHARD L AKA CUNNINGHAM RICHARD LEE, Deceased of Pittsburgh, Estate No. 00108 of 2024, Exec, Ryan Steele Cunningham, 2417 Orlando Pl, Pittsburgh, PA 15235 or to Michael J. Saldamarco, Esq., Ste. 100, 908 Perry Hwy., Pittsburgh, PA 15229 Estate of DEBORAH A. SONBERGER A/K/A DEBORAH ANN SONBERGER, Decased of 739 S. Braddock Avenue #2, Pittsburgh, PA 15221, Estate No. 02-24-00402, Kathy Boueck, 435 Creekshire Drive, Roswell, GA 30075, Executor, or to William C. Price Jr., Price & Associates, P.C., 2005 Noble Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15218 Estate of MICHAEL R. TERPACK, JR. , Decased of Greencille, Mercer, Pennsylvania, Estate No. 02-24-00730, Michele Bresnay, Administrator, 106 Cottonwood Drive, Oakdale, PA 15071 or to Ruth E. Carlin, Administrator, 890 Methodist Road, Greenville, PA 16125 or to ROBIN L. RARIE, Atty; BRENLOVE & FULLER, LLC. 401 Washington Avenue, Bridgeville, PA 15017 Estate of DWAYNE TILLMAN, Tailja Tillman, Adm’x, appointed October 23, 2023, Case No. 022307269, 11505 Joan Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15235. Peter B. Lewis, , Counsel, Neighborhood Legal Services, 928 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Estate of MRS. CONSTANCE ANN VALENTI, Decased of 130 Fifth Street, Aspinwall, PA 15215. Estate No. 02-23-04155, Mr. Jerome Valenti, Executor, 130 Fifth Street, Aspinwall, PA 15215, Executor, c/o Anthony J. Valenti, Esquire, 405 1/2 Center Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15215 Estate of LAURA A. WILLIAMS A/K/A LAURA ANN WILLIAMS, Case No. 02-24-08198. Edward L. Thomas, 539 Palm Street, McKeesport, PA 15132 appointed Administrator by Order dated January 22, 2024. Peter B. Lewis, Counsel., Neighborhood Legal Services, 928 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15222, Orphan’s Court Division, Case No. 020902970, Petition for Determination of Title filed December 18, 2023 by Eather Lynn Johnson to terminate the interest Gladys Odessa Grace in 2411 Glen Mawr Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15204. Peter B. Lewis, Attorney, 928 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, (412) 586-6153.

Estate of CERNIAWSKI WILLIAM, deceased of Whitaker, PA, Estate No. 022306075 of 2023, William S. Cerniawski, Admr, 103 Union Street, Munhall, PA 15120 Estate of MARY ELIZABETH KIRSCH, Deceased of Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, No. 02-24-00798, Jennifer Kirsch, Administrator, 1554 Berkshire Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15226 or to AUBREY H. GLOVER, Atty; BRENLOVE & FULLER, LLC., 401 Washington Avenue, Bridgeville, PA 15017 Estate of ESTHER L. HARRIS, Deceased of 7320 Whipple Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15218, No. 02-24-00763, Sharon Fatur, Executrix, 121 Crosswinds Lane, Murrysville, PA 15668 or to William C. Price, Jr., Price & Associates, P.C., 2005 Noble Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15218 Estate of ROLAND SMITH, JR., Decased of Pittsburgh, PA. No. 02-23-00790, Kim A. Bodnar, Administrator or to KIM A. BODNAR, 304 ROSS STREET, SUITE 701, PITTSBURGH, PA 15219 Estate of VIRGINIA M. BOWLAND, Decased of Bridgeville, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, No. 02-24-00386, Michael E. Uriah, Personal Rep/Administrator, 817 West Grant Street, Houston, PA 15342 or to ROBIN L. RARIE, Atty; BRENLOVE & FULLER, LLC. 401 Washington Avenue, Bridgeville, PA 15017

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LEGAL AD NOTICE IS HEREBY given the Emsworth Zoning Hearing Board will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, February 20, 2024, 7 p.m., prevailing time, at the Emsworth Borough Building, 171 Center Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15202, regarding the application from Kelsi Hodgeson for property at 204 Superior Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15202, seeking a Variance from Emsworth Borough Ord. No. 1008, Section 1, requesting residential home to be short term rental.

All those interested in the above hearing should be present at the above time and place and you will have an opportunity to be heard.

CATHY JONES Borough Secretary FEBRUARY HACP BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS MEETING The next regular HACP Board of Commissioners Meeting will take place on Thursday, February 22, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. EST. This will be a hybrid meeting (with limited in-person seating (on a first come, first serve basis) and a remote Zoom viewing option).

The meeting agenda will be posted to the HACP website: www.hacp.org on Monday, February 19, 2024. Registration to attend th e m e e tin g in -p e r son and registration to provide public comment will both open on Monday, February 19, 2024, at 11 a.m. and posted to www.hacp.org.

HACP conducts business in accordance with all federal, state, and local civil rights laws, including but not limited to Title VII, the Fair Housing Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, The PA Human Relations Act, etc. and does not discriminate against any individuals protected by these statutes.

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Estate of MR. PAUL FRANK CIMINO, Deceased of 1302 Vance Avenue, Coraopolis, PA 15108., Estate No. 02-24-00531, Mr. Richard DiCicco, Executor, c/o Max C. Feldman, Esquire and the Law Office of Max C. Feldman, 1322 Fifth Avenue, Coraopolis, PA 15108 Estate of CATHERINE F. ALLEN, Decased of Upper Saint Clair, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, No. 02-24-00533, Elizabeth A. Pellicano, Executor, 449 Marietta Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15228 or to ROBIN L. RARIE, Atty; BRENLOVE & FULLER, LLC. 401 Washington Avenue, Bridgeville, PA 15017

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CITY OF PITTSBURGH DEPARTMENT OF CITY PLANNING Re: DCP-HN-2023-01135 and DCP-HN-2023-01071 City Council will hold a public hearing on DCP-HN-2023-01135, the historic nomination of the B’Nai Israel Synagogue, located at 327 North Negley Avenue (City Council Bill 2023-2230) and DCP-HN-2023-01071, the historic nomination of Frick Park located at 2005 Beechwood Boulevard (City Council Bill 2024-51).

The documents submitted as part of this application will be available online on the Department of City Planning’s Notices website: https://pittsburghpa.gov/dcp/upcoming by typing “Israel” or “Frick”.

Email questions regarding this nomination to historicreview@pittsburghpa.gov.

The public hearing will be held in Council Chambers, located on the Fifth Floor of the City-County Building, 414 Grant Street. Please use the Grant Street elevators to access the 5th Floor. All meetings are livestreamed on the on the City’s YouTube channel. The public hearing date is: Tuesday, February 27th, 2024 at 1:30 PM To register to speak, please complete the online Speaker form at: https://pittsburghpa.gov/clerk/council-meetings You may also call the City Clerk’s office to register at (412) 255-2138.

Sign up is required by 11:30 am on Tuesday, February 27th, 2024. After you’ve registered, you’ll be given the telephone number and access code to join the hearing. You may also submit written statements by emailing the City Clerk’s Office at cityclerksoffice@pittsburghpa.gov.

Please note that written statements are not read live during hearings, but are forwarded to all Council Members.

During the hearing, the live stream is available on the City’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CityChannelPittsburgh You may also access the past meetings videos online here: https://pittsburgh.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx The hearing will be replayed on the City Channel Pittsburgh. Please check your local listings for channel information.

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COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY PITTSBURGH, PA February 7, 2024 The Office of the Director of the Department of Public Works for Allegheny County in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, is soliciting Statements of Interest through PennDOT’s electronic contract management system (ECMS) for the following: ALLEGHENY COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS Design Services For Spruce Run Bridge No. 4 over Spruce Run (XP04) County Project No. XP04-0112 And Crawford Run Bridge No. 2 over Crawford Run (CE02) County Project No. CE02-0301 MPMS No.’s 57066 & 81714 Local Agreement Number: L00796 This is a federal-aid project with PennDOT oversight. Statements of Interest are due no later than March 8, 2024, and are to be submitted through PennDOT’s ECMS website, https://www.ecms.penndot.pa.gov. The ECMS Agreement number is L00796.

A copy of the published advertisement will also be located on the Allegheny County website: https://www.alleghenycounty.us/projects-and-initiatives/ bids-and-solicitations/public-works-bids-and-proposals. Any inquiries regarding this advertisement are to be directed to Mr. Mike Burdelsky, P.E., Assistant Deputy Director, 412.350.5914 or mburdelsky@alleghenycounty.us.

The County will use its normal selection process and preselect or short-list at least three firms for consideration for this project assignment on the following evaluation criteria: Work Experience on PennDOT and Allegheny County Projects, Project Delivery Related to Meeting Design Schedules, Use and Experience of Subconsultants, Minimization of Future Maintenance, Quality Control and Quality Assurance, and Inclusion of a Sustainability Profile in Accordance with County Ordinance 04-23-OR. Allegheny County’s Department of Equity and Inclusion contract goals are 13% MBE participation and 2% WBE participation. These goals remain in effect throughout the life of each contract.

Stephen G. Shanley, P.E., Director Department of Public Works of Allegheny County CITY OF PITTSBURGH OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET ADVERTISEMENT Separate and sealed Bid Proposals will be received electronically starting on Wednesday February 14, 2024 for:

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THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH (CITY), THE URBAN REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF PITTSBURGH (URA), AND THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH (HACP) REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) FOR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT FOR 412 BOULEVARD OF THE ALLIES RFP#125-04-24 The City of Pittsburgh (City), the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh (URA), a n d t h e Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) (collectively, the City, URA, and HACP are referred to as the “Co-Owners”), hereby request proposals from qualified Firms or Individuals capable of providing the following service(s): Property Management for 412 Boulevard of the Allies RFP #125-04-24 The documents will be available no later than February 12, 2024 and signed, sealed proposals will be accepted until 10:00 a.m. on March 12, 2024, at which time they will be Time and Date Stamped at 412 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15219.

Parties or individuals interested in responding may download a copy of the Solicitation from the Business Opportunities page of www.HACP.org.

Questions or inquiries should be directed to: Mr. Kim Detrick Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh Procurement Department 412 Boulevard of the Allies 6th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-643-2832 A pre-submission meeting will be held via Zoom meeting on February 27, 2024, at 10:00 A.M. Please see meeting information below: Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 825 4240 5656 Passcode: 596944 +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C) The City of Pittsburgh (City), the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh (URA), and the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) strongly encourages certified minority business enterprises and women business enterprises to respond to this solicitation.

HACP’s has revised their website.

As part of those revisions, vendors must now register and log-in, in order to view and download IFB/ RFPs documentation.

Caster D. Binion, Executive Director Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh HACP conducts business in accordance with all federal, state, and local civil rights laws, including but not limited to Title VII, the Fair Housing Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, The PA Human Relations Act, etc. and does not discriminate against any individuals protected by these statutes.

2024-IFB-029 – Ventilation Fans Information on solicitations is available on the City of Pittsburgh website: http://purchasing.pittsburghpa.gov Bid proposals are requested on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh. All bids must be submitted via the above website and all required documents must be provided or the bid proposal may be considered non-responsive.

The contractor will be required to comply with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity requirements for Federally Assisted construction contracts. The contractor must assure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Attention is called to Executive Order 11246, to Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, 12 U.S.C. 1701U, and to the Section 3 Clause and Regulations set forth in 24 CFR, Part 135.

The Contractor will be required to comply with the following laws, rules and regulations: All provisions of US Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965, as amended by US Executive Order 11375 and as supplemented in US Department of Labor Regulations (41 CFR, Part 60), and of the rules, regulations, and relevant orders of the US Secretary of Labor.

Contractor shall comply with all applicable standards, orders, or requirements issued of the Clean Air Act (42 USC 1857 et. seq.), Section 508 of the Clean Water Act (33 USC 1368), Executive Order 11738, and Environmental Protection Agency regulations (40 CFR, Part 15).

Contractor shall comply with the Davis-Bacon Act the Davis-Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. 276a to 276a-7) as supplemented by Department of Labor regulations (29 CFR part 5).

Procedures for compliance to these acts shall be as follows: All specifications for construction contracts and subcontracts will contain the prevailing wage rates (as enclosed in this bid package) as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276-a to 276-C-5) and provision that overtime compensation will be paid in accordance with the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act Regulations (29 CFR, Parts 5 and 1926). The contract provisions shall require that these standards be met.

Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Employment Opportunity (Executive Order 11246): Bidder’s attention is called to the “Equal Opportunity Clause” and the “Standard Federal Equal Employment Specifications” set forth in 41 CFR Public Contracts and Property Management Part 60-4.3 Equal Opportunity Clauses.

Goals for minority participation: 18% Goals for female participation: 7%

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These goals are applicable to all construction work (whether or not Federal or Federally-Assisted) performed in the “covered area.”

As used in this notice, and in the contract resulting from this solicitation, the “covered area” is Pittsburgh SMSA (Allegheny, Washington, Beaver and Westmoreland counties).

The contractor shall comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 1988, as amended, Section 109 of the Community Development Act of 1974, with Executive Order 11625 (Minority Business Enterprise) and Executive Order 12138 (Women’s Business Enterprise).

The Proposers will be required to submit the package of certifications included with the contract documents relating to Equal Employment Opportunity.

Vendors submitting responses on federally funded projects must register on SAM.gov and provide proof of registration.

The City of Pittsburgh reserves the right to withhold the award of contract for a period of sixty (60) calendar days after the opening of bids.

The City of Pittsburgh reserves the right to reject any or all Proposals.

OFFICIAL BID NOTICE TOWNSHIP OF UPPER ST. CLAIR Sealed and separate bids will be received by the Township of Upper St. Clair, 1820 McLaughlin Run Road, Upper St. Clair, PA 15241, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania until 9:00 a.m., Thursday, March 14, 2024, and the BIDS will be publicly opened and read thereafter in the Township Building at the same address for the following: UPPER ST. CLAIR COMMUNITY & RECREATION CENTER – OUTDOOR POOL RE-PLASTERING WORK Please refer to https://www.twpusc.org/business/ bid_information.php, for details regarding specifications and Bidding requirements.

Matthew R. Serakowski Township Manager OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENT THE BOARD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PITTSBURGH Sealed proposals shall be deposited at the Administration Building, Bellefield Entrance Lobby, 341 South Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15213, on March 05, 2024, until 2:00 P.M., local prevailing time for: Various Schools Water Cooler Replacement Phase 7 Plumbing and Electrical Primes Various Schools EM Generator Maintenance Inspections Electrical Primes Project Manual and Drawings will be available for purchase on February 12, 2024, at Modern Reproductions (412-488-7700), 127 McKean Street, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15219 between 9:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. The cost of the Project Manual Documents is non-refundable.

Project details and dates are described in each project manual.

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R&D ENGINEER III, RAIL PRODUCTS L.B. Foster (Pittsburgh, PA) to be rspnsbl for fulfllng dsgn, engnrng, & prjct mngmnt fnctns in new prdct dvlpmnt (NPD) prjcts in the Rail Products Group. Spcfc job duties incl: dsgnng & dvlpng prdcts for railrd indstry undr guidnce of snr prsnnl; creatng & mntnng dcmnttn rel to NPD prjcts; prfrmng cst estmtn, fsblty anlys, engnrng clcltns, & prototypng rel to prdct dvlpmnt; coordntng NPD actvts amng spplrs, cstmrs, & prdct mngmnt grps; creatng 3D dsgns & dsgnng drwngs of prdcts; running strctrl engnrng anlys w/ vryng dgrees of cmplxty by usng hand clcltns & finite elmnt mdlng; rsrchng var mtrls, mnfctrng prcsses, & dsgn cncpts for ptntl implmnttn in NPD prjcts; wrkng w/indvdls from othr fnctnl areas like sales, prcrmnt bsnss dvlpmnt, etc., in var phses of prdct dvlpmnt & prvdng timely & frqnt wrttn & vrbl rprtng on NPD actvts. Master’s in Mchncl, Strctrl or Cvl Engnrng. Must hold ANSYS Wrkbench cert. Must know (thru acad trnng or wrk exp) sftwre prgrmmng & applctns of the fnte elmnt mthd for slvng 1, 2 & 3D elstcty prblms; theortcl fndtns; 2D & 3D CAD Mdlng; & AutoCAD, Solidwrks, Creo, NX, & Inventor.

Send resumes to KProkopuk@lbfoster.com.

SENIOR MEDICAL DOSIMETRIST – UPCI Cancer Services seeks a Senior Medical Dosimetrist in Allegheny County, PA to generate clinically optimal treatment plans for radiation therapy patients in collaboration with radiation oncologists, radiation therapy technologists, and medical physicists.

Participate in CT simulation, radiation treatment planning, quality management for radiation oncology patients.

Must have a Bachelor of Science degree, or equivalent, in Medical Dosimetry, Radiologic Sciences, or a related field. Must be certified by the AAMD Medical Dosimetrist Certification Board (MDCB) or be eligible for certification. Apply by following these steps; visit http://careers.upmc.com and enter 240000J4 in the “Search Keyword/Job ID” field and click Go. EOE/Disability/Veteran.

EMPLOYEE RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE Pittsburgh Regional Transit is seeking an Employee Relations Representative to function as the Employee Relations/Human Resources representative of Port Authority of Allegheny County d/b/a Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) for assigned divisions, within the scope of labor/employee relations matters. Advises management on labor agreement interpretation and administration. Directs investigations, conducts disciplinary and grievance hearings to ensure consistent, system-wide adherence and applications and represents PRT at the first step in the grievance procedure.

Screens grievance cases for arbitration and enters into binding agreements with unions in dispute resolution. Develops and implement Employee Relations training programs; identifies, recommends and assists in facilitating other training opportunities, as required. Serves as a member of the PRT’s negotiating team to participate in contract negotiations with union representatives.

Essential Functions: • Utilize PeopleSoft HRMS to perform the following: • Enter, update and maintain discipline, grievances and terminations.

• Function as the Human Resources Representative at the assigned divisions, expediting the resolutions of labor/employee relations matters as they arise day-to-day. Provides information on labor law and accepted labor relations practices.

• Advise management on the administration of labor agreements and provides interpretations to ensure fulfillment of contractual obligations.

Ensures adherence to company policies and procedures for proper and consistent application and compliance.

• Direct investigations, conducts disciplinary hearings, determines appropriated level of discipline and implements up to and including discharge.

Job requirements include: • High school diploma or GED. • Bachelor’s degree in industrial/ labor relations, human resources management or related field from an accredited college or university.

Experience within labor relations/ employee relations area may be substituted for education on a year-for-year basis.

• Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in labor and employment law. No certifications or licenses required.

• Minimum of one (1) year experience in a unionized environment.

• Knowledge of labor and employment laws.

• Demonstrated ability in the use of Windows, Microsoft Word and Excel.

• Professional and effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

• Good organizational skills.

Preferred attributes: • Previous supervisory and/or leadership experience.

• Oracle/PeopleSoft experience.

• General Human Resource experience.

INSTRUCTOR – FL (HEAVY EQUIPMENT) Pittsburgh Regional Transit is seeki ng an I nst ruct or – FL ( Heavy Equipment) instruct and evaluate employee training and individual progress in the course of safe operation of Pittsburgh Regional Transit heavy, special and non-revenue vehicle equipment and vehicles.

Essential Functions: • Instructs, qualifies, and performs evaluations and follow-up evaluations of personnel in the operation of heavy, special and non-revenue maintenance equipment and vehicles.

• Utilizes PeopleSoft System (Human Resources Management System) to perform and maintain records of training courses.

• Instructs and qualifies personnel on busways and transit tunnels, as needed.

• Develops and delivers classroom -training programs.

Job requirements include: • High School Diploma or GED. • Ability to work various shifts, and pass days, as needed.

• Subject to pass day and shift change.

• A minimum of 7 years (that can be verified) as a heavy construction equipment operator.

• Obtain and maintain a valid Commercial Driver’s License (minimum of Class A with ”N” endorsement and Air Brake Restriction “L” removed).

Must also obtain and maintain a current Third Party Examiner Certification conducting CDL training and testing.

• Successful completion of administered Assessments.

• P r o f e s s i o n a l a n d e ff e c t i v e communication skills.

• Must be available for travel.

• Demonstrated ability in the use of Windows, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

• This is a Safety–Sensitive position subject to all testing provisions under the Drug and Alcohol Policy, including random drug and alcohol testing. The person selected for this position may be required to be tested prior to being awarded the job.

Preferred attributes: • Previous Pittsburgh Regional Transit supervisory experience preferred, otherwise, prior supervisory experience in Rail and Facilities Department of Pittsburgh Regional Transit Operations Division.

• Training and/or experience in heavy or special equipment maintenance/ operation.

• Training and/or experience in non-revenue vehicle maintenance/ operation.

• Experience with operating rail vehicles and signal systems.

• Demonstrated ability in the use of Microsoft PowerPoint.

LAWRENCEVILLE FARMERS MARKET ASSISTANT MANAGER Seeking someone passionate about food access to support social media and in-person operations for the 2024 Lawrenceville Farmers Market. Seasonal (Apr-Dec), part-time (10 hrs/wk) position. $18.57/hr. More info at bit.ly/LFMAssistant or 412-802-7220. Apply by 3/1.

ENTRY LEVEL POLICE OFFICER The City of Altoona is now accepting applications for Entry Level Police Officers. Information and applications are available online at www.altoonapa.gov and in the Human Resources Department of City Hall at 1301 12th Street, Suite 400, Altoona, PA. Applications and applicable supporting documentation must be submitted to the Human Resources Department by Noon on Friday, March 15, 2024.

The City of Altoona is an Equal Opportunity Employer MT. LEBANON, PA POLICE OFFICER TESTING MT. LEBANON POLICE DEPARTMENT will be conducting a physical agility and written exam for POLICE OFFICER on Saturday, March 23, 2024.

Starting salary of $75,894 annually ($59,670 for police academy cadet).

Must be a U.S. citizen; 21 years of age at hire; bachelor’s degree from accredited college/university at hire; pass physical, written, oral exams plus a comprehensive background investigation. Full test requirements, description and application may be obtained at https://mtlebanon.org/departments/ human-resources/. Deadline ending no later than 4:00 pm, March 8, 2024. Mt. Lebanon provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment based on competence, merit, performance, and business needs. We are committed to valuing the diversity of all individuals without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other classification protected by law.

Reasonable accommodations for the needs of otherwise qualified applicants with disabilities will be made upon request to the Human Resource Office at 412-343-3625 or jaquino@mtlebanon.org.

PSYCHIATRIST – University of Pittsburgh Physicians in Pittsburgh, PA seeks a Psychiatrist to evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients with mental, behavioral, and emotional disorders, chronic pain, and trauma-related injuries in an inpatient setting, including both acute and extended acute options.

Must have a Medical degree or equivalent; must have completed a residency in Psychiatry; must hold a valid unrestricted Pennsylvania medical license or eligibility for licensure. Telecommuting permissible.

Apply by following these steps; visit http://careers.upmc.com and enter 240000J2 in the “Search Keyword/ Job ID” field and click Go. EOE/Disability/Veteran.

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TRANSIT AMENITY SPECIALIST Pittsburgh Regional Transit is seeking a Transit Amenity Specialist to provide and maintain transit stop information and provide assistance for other departmental functions for Port Authority of Allegheny County d/b/a Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT). Responsible for maintaining updated databases for tranist stops, amenities and park and ride lots. Assists with bus stop signage maintenance consisting of conducting field inspections to ensure that all stop information, equipment, inventory and facilities are maintained. Coordinates various departmental functions and ensures consistent application of data and procedures. Assists with the bus stop consolidation and shelter replacment programs.

Essential Functions: • Conducts field inspections to evaluate transit stops in accordance with the Bus Stop and Street Design Guidelines and makes recommendations for relocation or removal.

• Prepares sign crews with written work orders for installation, removal, and changes to existing/new stop locations, and maintains database/ spreadsheet tracking work orders.

Verifies completion and accuracy of work performed.

• Assists with reviewing and making recommendations for shelters, park and ride and rider information.

Ensures activities comply with contracts and company policies.

• Conduct monthly maintenance inspections of reviews of Park and Ride lots, and report to Manager of Transit Amenities issues.

• Review customer complaints and provide Manager of Transit Amenities with required follow-up to close all complaints.

Job requirements include: • High School Diploma or GED. • BA/BS Degree in Business Administration or related field from an accredited school. Directly related experience may be substituted for the education on a year-for-year basis.

• Minimum of two (2) years experience in planning, scheduling, transit schedules, service, customer service, data collection, and/or analysis.

• Demonstrated ability in the use of Windows, Microsoft Word, and Excel.

• Excellent organizational skills.

• P ro fe s s i o n a l a n d e ffecti ve communication skills.

• Valid driver’s license.

Preferred attributes: • Experience in transit operations, scheduling, planning, or customer service.

• Knowledge of PRT’s service areas and routes.

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Interested candidates should forward a cover letter (with salary requirements) and resume to: Holly Jenkins Employment Department 345 Sixth Avenue, 3rd Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527 HJenkins@RidePRT.org EOE

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Dr. Karen Hall, Eddie Benton, wealth of talented players have Oakland Catholic undefeated BENTON FROM A1

championships.”

In June 2022, Dr. Hall’s first major hire was announced, bringing on a person who used to play for her in the Connie Hawkins Men’s Summer Basketball League. Benton, you may recall, won a state title as a star player on Perry Traditional Academy’s 1991 team. He then went on to become the all-time leading scorer at the University of Vermont.

His No. 10 jersey is retired there, too.

Benton since has amassed an impressive collegiate coaching career. He was the head coach of the LaRoche University women’s basketball team for eight years. He was the assistant coach for women’s programs at St. Francis (Pa.), Duquesne, Cincinnati, Brown and Mississippi State.

After roughly 25 years of coaching at the collegiate level, Benton wanted to return home to be closer to his children in Pittsburgh.

“One of the things that I didn’t really have a chance to do was be a dad,” Benton said during his introductory press conference in 2022. “I didn’t get a chance to

EDDIE BENTON, A FORMER PERRY TRADITIONAL ACADEMY AND UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT BASKETBALL STAR, HAS COME HOME TO COACH OAKLAND CATHOLIC. (PHOTOS BY MARLON MARTIN)

DR. KAREN HALL IS OAKLAND CATHOLIC’S ATHLETICS DIRECTOR.

LONDON CREACH IS OAKLAND CATHOLIC’S TOP SCORER. see my own kids for three and a half, going on four months. That’s the main reason why I came back to coach high school basketball; I wanted to still coach the game but I had to be in my kids’ life.”

Benton is uber-proud of his children; Ny’Asia Benton, who was a star track and field athlete at Pittsburgh Obama Academy and is now at Robert Morris, and Eddie Benton III, a multisport athlete at Bishop Canevin High School.

In Benton’s first season as Oakland Catholic head coach (2022-23), the team lost just three games in the regular season, and made it all the way to the WPIAL 5A Championship game, but lost to South Fayette, 64-49. In the PIAA

state playoffs, Oakland Catholic made it to the state semifinals, but lost again to South Fayette, 58-54.

This season though, there’s been no setbacks.

Benton said junior London Creach is the team’s leading scorer, and she’s

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also the only returning starter from last season’s senior-laden team.

Creach, who is African American, has said that she has learned to be more of a leader this year, as many of the freshmen and sophomores on the team look to her for guidance.

Benton said Josie Fontana is the 6-foot-2 junior “who’s our presence inside,” Kaylee DeAngelo is the freshman sharpshooter from deep, “we got our senior point guard, Raygen Hintemeyer, who does a lot of great things and runs our team, and then our engine is (freshman) Mia LeDonne. She’s the engine that gets us going.”

Alayla Bivins and Marionna Logan also are regular contributors for the Eagles. Both Bivins, a junior, and Logan, a senior, are African American.

So, what’s next? The WPIAL playoffs, of

course.

The WPIAL playoffs are different from the Pittsburgh City League — the City League teams hold their championship games this weekend at Duquesne University.

The WPIAL championships will be held, Feb. 29-March 2, at the Petersen Events Center in Oakland. With the new culture, the new attitude, and so far, an undefeated season, can Benton lead Oakland Catholic to a WPIAL, and then, a state title this season?

“The biggest thing is, I tell the girls from Day 1, we gotta outwork everyone, we gotta prepare harder, we gotta work harder,” Benton told the Courier. “We’ll never be perfect, but I want our girls to play as close to perfect as we possibly can, and just have that mentality and not be satisfied unless it’s that good.”

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