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by Ervin Dyer, Ph.D. PitttWire
William “Bill” Aldophus Granberry Fisher—a revered University of Pittsburgh alumnus and pioneering educator who became the first Black principal to serve at a predominantly White Pittsburgh public high school—died on April 13. He was 100.
Described as a caring, dedicated force of nature, Fisher earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Pitt in 1948 and set about making the public school system, of which he was a product, work for everyone. He believed all students deserved the best education possible.
In 1971, Fisher made history when he became the first African American principal of Taylor Allderdice High School in the city’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood.
He started the job amid
the tumult of desegregation. It was a tense and sometimes violent time: Fights were common, and students would often leave school to escape the aggravations. Nonetheless, he soon became a beloved and cherished principal, thanks in part to his warm but firm rapport with his pupils. Former students say Fisher saw potential in each of them and pushed everyone to be their best.
He earned the nickname “Hook” for his insistence that young men take off their caps indoors or else hang them up on hooks in his office and for his pursuit of students who cut school—he’d hook them back into their classes. Fisher retired in 1991, but not before shaping the lives of hundreds of students, many of whom would go on to Pitt. For
by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer
The struggle is real when it comes to living in Pittsburgh for African Americans.
Day after day, Pittsburgh's population of Blacks dwindles, like the sand in an hourglass.
Pittsburgh's first Black mayor, Ed Gainey, says he is not only "trying" to do something about it, he "has" done something about it. He says he's secured 1,600 units of affordable housing in the city since he took office in January 2022. Those 1,600 units include new development along with preserved units.
Gainey's Democratic challenger for mayor, Corey O'Connor, continues to dispute that number. With the Primary Election scheduled for Tuesday, May 20, both O'Connor
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events around the U.S. starting last Saturday. The tour seeks to amplify Black voices across the country. The nationwide tour will be anchored by a diverse coalition of community leaders, civil rights activists, entrepreneurs, influencers, and policy chiefs. The effort, set to visit Black communities in ten states, began with a two-day series of events in Atlanta on April 26. Leaders and participants of the nationwide effort include Angela Rye, President and CEO of IMPACT Strategies; Joy Reid, journalist; Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP; LaTosha Brown, Co-Founder of Black Voters Matter; Pastor Mike McBride, activist Tamika Mallory, Executive Director of Live Free USA and activist and strategist Gary Chambers, Jr. among many others. Different leaders and activists will be highlighted from city to city. The effort is designed to spotlight local leadership, elevate community-driven solutions, and help shape a national Black agenda ahead of Juneteenth 2025. Organizers say the initiative is rooted in deep listening, movement building, and networking among those most impacted by systemic inequity. From the first 48 hours of his second term in the White House, President Donald Trump has been focused on policy to dismantling diversity and inclusion. Additionally, his administration has made several anti-Black moves, including the removal and defunding of Black historical figures and sites, ad an ongoing assertion that inclusive policy means a lack of qualifications. “Atlanta, widely known as the ‘Black Mecca,’ is the perfect starting point for this journey,” a press release on April 23 said. “Its historic legacy of civil rights leadership and cultural excellence embodies the spirit of this movement—one grounded in vision, strategy, and collective power.” Following its kickoff in Georgia, the tour will make stops in North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, New Jersey, Virginia, Michigan, California, and Kentucky, culminating in a Juneteenth General Assembly at a location yet to be announced. Throughout the tour, organizers will release policy reports addressing key issues impacting Black communities, including economic justice, education equity, health care access, criminal justice reform, environmental justice, and voting rights. Each stop will feature local convenings, strategic workshops, and collaborative planning sessions, all aimed at strengthening the infrastructure of Black-led change. With the 2026 midterms on the horizon and a national reckoning around equity still unfolding, the “State of the People POWER Tour” signals a new chapter in community-centered movement building. “This is more than a tour—it’s an organizing strategy, a policy lab, and a call to action,” said one coalition leader. “We’re building power that lasts—and we’re doing it together.”
April Ryan, Black Press saluted at 2025 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner
by Stacy M. Brown Senior
National Correspondent, BlackPressUSA.com
This year, the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner looked much different. Without the presence of the President of the United States, an accomplished comedian, or the traditional crowd of politicians and celebrities, the evening instead became a nationally televised celebration of free speech. The black-tie event was also a recognition of the benefit of diversity, a tribute to trailblazing journalists, and a major shout-out and acknowledgment to Black Press USA’s Washington Bureau Chief and White House Senior Correspondent, April Ryan. The event took place under the shadow of a second Trump administration that has launched fresh attacks on press freedom, barring the Associated Press from the presidential pool and moving to shut down the Voice of America broadcaster. President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly branded the media
“the enemy of the people,” stayed away from the dinner, just as he did during his first term. Political figures, including Republican former House Speaker Paul Ryan and Maryland Democratic Governor Wes Moore, attended. In a typical year, the president attends to congratulate journalists, deliver a lighthearted speech, and endure jokes at their expense. With Trump absent, the night focused squarely on the critical role of the press in a democracy and the First Amendment constitutional protections of freedom of the press. “We journalists are a lot of things. We are competitive and pushy. We are impatient, and sometimes we think we know everything,” said WHCA President Eugene Daniels. “What we are not is the opposition. What we are not is the enemy of people. What we are not is the enemy of the state.”
The dinner also honored the contributions of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), with students recognized during the evening for achievements in journalism and public service. The event made clear the association’s continuing commitment to diversity. Daniels, the first openly gay person of color and the second Black president of the WHCA, officially passed the baton to CBS News Senior White House Correspondent Weijia Jiang, who will become the first woman of color to lead the organization. A highlight of the evening was the tribute to April Ryan, who received recognition as the longest-serving African American White House correspondent in history. Daniels chose to salute Ryan’s groundbreaking career during the presentation of an award named for Alice Dunnigan and Ethel Payne—the first Black women to serve in the White House press corps. “Many of us are here because they kicked down some doors for us, including Black Press USA’s April Ryan,” Daniels declared. “This year, April has officially become the longest-serving African American White House Correspondent in history. April—Ms. Dunnigan and Ms. Payne would have been so proud of you, and so are we.” Ryan shared her gratitude. “It’s an honor to be the longest serving Black White House correspondent in history with Black Press USA, the company that
Historic Black sites under threat, May 3 mobilization set
by Stacy M. Brown Senior National Correspondent, BlackPressUSA.com
Reverend Shavon Arline-Bradley, president and CEO of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), is mobilizing a national response to what she called a deliberate effort by the Trump administration to erase Black history and dismantle long-standing institutions. “Our ancestors have seen racism before,” Bradley said on Black Press USA’s Let It Be Known news program. “But they haven’t seen this level of foolishness in the White House that is outright anti-law. What we’re seeing now is lawlessness.”
NCNW has adopted a “Three C Strategy”—consumer action, constituent engagement, and commitment—aimed at protecting Black institutions and advancing economic power. That includes defending NCNW’s historic headquarters, the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House in Washington, which Bradley warned could be targeted by the Department of the Interior.
Across the city, civil rights veteran Dr. Frank Smith is fighting to complete the expansion of the African American Civil War Memorial Museum. Budget freezes have stalled progress. “We survived slavery, Jim Crow, and the Ku Klux Klan. We’ll survive this,” Smith said. “African American soldiers helped Lincoln save this union. Now, we need to finish what we started.” Meanwhile, Black Press USA has confirmed that the Trump administration has begun dismantling exhibits at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Journalist April Ryan reported the removal of the iconic Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit. The display honors four North Carolina A&T students who sparked a national wave of protests in 1960. “This president is a master of distraction and is destroying what it took 250 years to build,” said Rep. Alma Adams of North Carolina. “You can take down exhibits, close buildings, ban books, and try to change history, but we will never forget.”
Officials also notified Rev. Dr. Amos Brown, pastor of San Francisco’s Third Baptist Church, that his loaned Bible and a historic volume by George W. Williams would be returned. Emails dated April 10 and 15 confirmed the transfer. Bradley said a national mobilization is set for May 3 in Washington, D.C., urging people to join the Smithsonian and support endangered cultural institutions. “This is not random,” she said. “This is consistent. This is deliberate.” NCNW is also countering recent executive orders eliminating civil rights protections and gutting diversity programs. “We’re issuing a newsletter to respond to every executive order so that Black women understand what this water hose is all about,” Bradley said.
She also called out Target’s retreat from its 2020 diversity pledges. “They were the leaders in DEI. But now they’re scared. We need to push them to do the right thing anyway, even if the words change.”
With $1.7 trillion in annual Black consumer spending— half from Black women— Bradley said economic power must be leveraged. “That kind of economic power should never be underestimated.” She concluded, “The Black Press is our Underground Railroad. If we don’t invest in the Black Press, we lose our Underground Railroad—period.”
started everything with pioneers like Harry McAlpin, Ethel Payne, and Alice Dunnigan,” Ryan remarked. “We’ve done groundbreaking work in the past, and we’re forging a new path to keep that legacy of groundbreaking work that informs the public, particularly Black Americans who still have the highest negatives in almost any category in America.” Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., president and CEO of the 198-year-old Black Press of America, called Ryan’s recognition a proud moment for the organization. “This recognition as being the longest serving White House correspondent is a tribute and an attribute to the Black Press of America,” Chavis said. “April Ryan is an icon of journalism.”
This Week In Black History A Courier Staple
• APRIL 30
711 AD—Tarik the Moor invades Spain with force of 7,000 troops, routs the Visigoths and establishes Moor domination of Spain. While there remains some dispute over Tarik’s race, the weight of the evidence is strong that he was a Black man. He was described in accounts of the time as having “brown skin and wooly hair.” His full name was Tarik al Gibral. The famed Rock of Gibraltar is named in his honor.
1828—Shaka, the great Zulu king and military leader, is killed. His innovative military strategies kept European imperialism at bay for years as he established Zulu dominance in large parts of Southern Africa. The Zulu nation grew to at least 250,000 with an army of over 40,000. But Shaka became increasingly dictatorial. Opposition to his dictatorship combined with jealousy led his two half-brothers to assassinate him on this day in 1828.
• MAY 1
1866—The two-day Memphis, Tenn., race riots , one of the most savage events immediately following the civil war, begins. When it was over, former Confederate soldiers, angered by the loss of the Civil War and the new status for Blacks, had killed 46 Blacks and two of their White supporters, as well as raped five Black women and torched over 90 homes, schools and churches. In support of the rebel soldiers, local police arrested hundreds of Blacks and not the Whites who were rioting. However, the savage nature of the rioting in Memphis (and a similar disturbance in New Orleans) prompted Congress to pass radical Reconstruction to aid Blacks, a Civil Rights bill, and the 14th Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing citizenship and equal protection to former slaves. 1950— Brilliant poet Gwendolyn Brooks , the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for her second collection, “Annie Allen,” is born on this day in Topeka, Kan. At 17, she started submitting her work to “Lights and Shadows,” the poetry column of the Chicago Defender, an African American newspaper. Brooks published her first book of poetry, “A Street in Bronzeville” (1945) with Harper and Row, after strong show of support to the publisher from author Richard Wright. Brooks died on Dec. 3, 2000 in Chicago, Ill. 1967— The “Long Hot Summer” begins. The period between May 1 and Oct. 1, 1967 witnessed the most dramatic and destructive series of Black urban disturbances in American history. Major riots took place in 40 American cities. There were also lesser disturbances in 100 smaller towns and cities. Many felt the riots were sparked by a collective sense of frustrated hopes and a new urban generation less willing to adopt peaceful means for change.
• MAY 2
1844— Master inventor Elijah McCoy is born in Colchester, Ontario, Canada. He would become the holder of over 50 patents— most were mechanical devices, which greatly improved engines, locomotives and steamships. The superiority of his inventions led to the phrase “the real McCoy” coming to mean the mark of excellent and authenticity. McCoy was born to slaves who escaped America for a free life in Canada. His parents became successful and sent him to study engineering in Scotland when he was only 16. After the end of U.S. slavery, he settled in Ypsilanti, Mich., and began his remarkable career.
1870— One of the most unsung religious leaders in American history, William Seymour , was born on this day in Centerville, La. Seymour became pastor of the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles and the catalyst for the worldwide Pentecostal movement. He not only rejected racial barriers in the church in favor of “Unity in Christ,” but he is also credited with eliminating many of the restrictions placed on women in the church. He died of a heart attack in 1922.
• MAY 3
1845—Macon B. Allen passes
the Massachusetts bar thus becoming the first African American lawyer to pass a state bar and the first Black person permitted to practice law in the United States. Allen was born in Indiana but after the Civil War he moved to South Carolina where he was elected a judge in 1873.
1933—Singer James Brown, known as “The Godfather of Soul” for his game-changing style in funk, soul and R&B throughout his career, was born on May, 3, 1933, in Barnwell, S.C. Brown charted on the Billboard Pop Charts close to 100 times and on the R&B charts at least 110 times. In a career that spanned six decades, Brown influenced the development of several music genres. Brown died on Dec. 25, 2006.
1949—The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of J.D. Shelley on Shelley v. Kraemer, a landmark housing and civil rights case. After years of living with relatives or in rental properties, Shelley, who’d migrated from the South to St. Louis, Mo., with his family to escape racial oppression, decided to buy a house. He learned, however that many owners had agreed to a real estate contract clause that banned them from selling their homes to people of “Negro or Mongolian” descent. After Shelley finally bought a house, White homeowner Louis Kraemer hired an attorney to invalidate the contract and took the case to court. After Kraemer successfully appealed, which reversed the first court’s decision, the Shelley family took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court and won.
• MAY 4
1891—Dr. Daniel Hale Williams founds the Provident Hospital and Training Center in Chicago, Ill. It becomes a major training center for Black doctors and nurses. Williams is best known, however, for performing the nation’s first open heart surgery on July 9, 1893. He operated on a man injured in a knife fight. The man would live for another 20 years after the surgery.
1961— Thirteen Freedom Riders began bus trips through the South to test Southern compliance with a 1960 U.S. Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in interstate transportation facilities. They were soon joined by hundreds of other “Freedom Riders” of all ages and races. Despite the Court decision, dozens of Freedom Riders were arrested as the South attempted to hang onto its segregationist ways.
• MAY 5
1905—Robert Sengstacke Abbott founds the Chicago Defender newspaper calling it “the world’s greatest weekly.” Indeed, he would build the Defender into the largest circulation and most influential Black newspaper of its day. The Defender, which became the most widely circulated Black newspaper in the country, came to be known as “America’s Black Newspaper” and made Abbott one of the first self-made millionaires of African American descent. In 1919, Illinois Gov. Frank Lowden appointed Abbott to the Race Relations Commission. Abbott died of Bright’s disease in 1940 in Chicago, Ill.
• MAY 6
1787—Prince Hall organizes the nation’s first Black Masonic lodge in Boston, Mass.—African Lodge #459. Hall would go on to become the father of Black Masons in America and a major Black leader in the Northeast.
1812—Martin R. Delany , a pioneering Black nationalist, is born on this day in Charles Town, Va. Abraham Lincoln once described him as one of the most brilliant men he had ever met. Delany would fight in the Civil War to end slavery and become one of the nation’s first Black military officers. After the war he became a doctor. But over the years he became frustrated with American racism and began to advocate a return of Blacks to Africa.
Remembering William A.G. Fisher
Beloved, first Black principal at Allderdice
FROM A1
FISHER
African American students and teachers, he paved the way for them to rise into leadership roles within Pittsburgh Public Schools.
“William Fisher, a proud alumnus of the School of Education, exemplified the transformative power of education. As the first Black principal at Allderdice High School, he left an indelible mark on countless students, inspiring them to make a positive impact on the world,” said Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, Renée and Richard Goldman Dean and Professor at Pitt’s School of Education.
Above all, she added, Fisher “stood as a possibility model for others, demonstrating the remarkable achievements attainable with an education degree. His legacy continues to endure through the many lives he touched.”
During his senior year, Fisher became the firs-
tuberculosis. At Peabody High (now Obama Academy), he was editor of the yearbook, president of the Latin Club and valedictorian of his class. He first enrolled at Pitt in 1942 but was soon conscripted to serve in World War II. He came back to campus in 1946, this time with help from the GI Bill.
“I was thrilled to be at Pitt,” recalled Fisher in 2023 interview with Pitt Magazine. “Getting accepted meant I could live up to the expectations that my grandmother had for me to succeed.”
He participated in the university’s Interfraternity Council, Men’s Council and Debate Club and served as a Pitt Player, doing scenery and backstage work for the theater ensemble.
But Fisher perhaps found his greatest calling with Alpha Phi Alpha, the first Black male fraternity on Pitt’s campus. The brotherhood provided Fisher a deeper belonging and reinforced a personal
Black male student to be elected by his peers to an honorary group then called the Pitt Hall of Fame, a recognition of exemplary leadership. His name is inscribed in stone along the walk of achievement from Heinz Memorial Chapel to the Cathedral of Learning.
After graduating from the university, Fisher worked for a few years as a clerk and a manager for the Pennsylvania Unemployment Office in Pittsburgh’s Hill District.
Then, in 1955, he became a teacher at the neighborhood’s Fifth Avenue High School, taking his first steps toward his trailblazing education career. Early on, Fisher created the first parent-teacher organization at a Pittsburgh public high school and taught the district’s first class in Negro history. In the second year of his teaching career, he was honored as one of the 10 best teachers in Pittsburgh with the Edgar Stern Award.
It would not be long before Fisher went on to earn a master’s degree in education from Duquesne University. Shortly after, he soared into high-level administration, becoming a vice principal at Westinghouse High in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood and, eventually, returning as vice principal to Fifth Avenue High, where he stayed for 11 years.
His next move was to Taylor Allderdice High School in 1971. Few would forget his service as principal.
In June 2024, the class of 1972 gathered to celebrate its 50th reunion. Fisher, who had just turned 100, was an honored guest, hailed for his firmness and dedication to the students and the school.
The son of a garbage hauler, Fisher grew up in the city’s East End, where he and his little brother were raised by their grandmother, Nora Durham, after their mother died at 24 from
belief in “being the master of your fate.”
In 2022, Fisher received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Pitt African American Alumni Council (AAAC).
AAAC National President Thomas Brooks said Fisher’s service to the University and the fraternity “exemplified the highest ideals of service and leadership, inspiring generations past and present.”
Details on funeral arrangements have not been disclosed.
WILLIAM FISHER’S 100TH BIRTHDAY WAS JUNE 22, 2024. HE WAS CELEBRATED AT THE EVENT IN THE ABOVE AND BELOW PHOTOS.
WILLIAM FISHER, IN HIS DAYS AT ALLDERDICE.
‘The Ebony Canal’ wins three ‘Webby’ awards for shedding light on Black infant health
by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer
The New Pittsburgh Courier has learned that “The Ebony Canal,” a documentary shedding light on Black infant health, has earned three “Webby” awards in advance of the 29th Annual Webby Awards. The Webby Awards, often referred to as the “Oscars of the Internet,” will be held on May 12, 2025, at Cipriani Wall Street, 55 Wall St., in New York City.
Directed by Pittsburgh’s own Emmy Award-winner Emmai Alaquiva, “The Ebony Canal” followed the birthing experiences of four women; Mariah Peoples, Larissa Lane, Alana Yzola Dally and Rachel Strader. “The Ebony Canal” won Webby Awards for “Video & Film: In-
dependent Short Film,”
“People’s Voice: Video & Film categories for Independent Short Film,” and “People’s Voice: Documentary: Shortform.”
In a press release announcing the Webby Award winners, “The Ebony Canal” previously had screenings at the Sundance Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival, and Johannesburg (South Africa) Film Festival. “The film continues to elevate the voices of Black and brown infants, and Black families and holds a call to action for awareness, advocacy, and transformation with the support of the Richard King Mellon Foundation, the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, first steps & beyond and more,” the April 27 release read.
The film was narrated by Viola Davis, who has achieved the “EGOT” —winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.
In the U.S., more than twice as many Black babies die before their first birthday than White babies. That statistic holds true in Pennsylvania, where the infant mortality for Black babies in 2020 was 10.9 per 1,000 live births. If you thought the 10.9 rate was bad, the rate was even higher in 2010, when the rate was 14.4.
Alaquiva told the Courier in a 2024 interview that the documentary came to be in 2022, when the August Wilson African American Cultural Center and the Richard King Mellon Foundation wanted to spotlight Black and brown infant
mortality and how it affects people directly and indirectly. And with Alaquiva’s mission as an artist to “crystallize the human spirit around cinematic and purposeful storytelling,” the four women shared all the ups and downs of their pregnancies, the births of their children, and then up until the first year after their children’s birth.
Winning a “Webby” is tough to do. Competition is fierce, as Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” won for “Music Video of the Year,” and Snoop Dogg won for “Entrepreneur of the Year.” Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett won for “Advocate of the Year,” and the Obama Foundation won for “Charitable Organization/Non-Profit of the Year.” The Webby
Awards have categories like podcasts, video/film, websites/mobile sites, apps/software, and creators. The “Webbys” began in 1996 and is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 3,000-plus-member judging body.
Port Authority of Allegheny County d/b/a Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) and the Borough of Dormont are releasing a joint Request for Qualifications (RFQ) from experienced, financially creative, and capable developers, development teams, or companies to provide for the potential transit-oriented development of the Dormont Junction site (the Site) via a long-term ground lease or similar agreement with Dormont and PRT, respectively and/or jointly, as to the parcels owned by each entity.
The Site consists of 2.5 acres, mainly paved and lighted surface lot that is sandwiched between PRT’s Dormont Junction light rail station and Dormont’s Business District of West Liberty Avenue in the Borough of Dormont, Allegheny County, PA. Additional information about the Site is contained in the RFQ.
The full RFQ which outlines required materials, terms and limitations, and deadlines can be found on PRT’s website at: https://engage.rideprt.com/dormont/tod.
This RFQ process and any transit-oriented development of the Site shall be in compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations and subject to relevant approvals, including but not necessarily limited to PRT Board and Borough of Dormont Council approvals. There will be an informational pre-submission meeting held virtually on Monday, April 28th at 3:00 p.m. EST via Microsoft Teams. A link to register for that meeting can be found on the project website listed above.
Proposals are due by 5:00 p.m. EST on Monday, May 26th, 2025. Please submit RFQs and direct any questions to Moira Egler, Manager of Transit-Oriented Communities at megler@rideprt.org.
Only written questions submitted via e-mail to Ms. Egler at least (5) business days prior to the due date for RFQ submissions will be responded to, and responses will be publicly posted on the project website listed above. The “Questions, Comments, Feedback” tool on the project website is not an appropriate way to request information from PRT. PRT and Dormont reserve the right to reject any or all proposals.
EGOT WINNER (EMMY, GRAMMY, OSCAR, TONY) VIOLA DAVIS WAS THE NARRATOR FOR “THE EBONY CANAL,” DIRECTED BY PITTSBURGH’S OWN EMMAI ALAQUIVA, RIGHT.
Friday, May 9, 2025 • 6-9 p.m.
Sheraton Pittsburgh Hotel at Station Square
300 W. Station Square, Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15219
AUSTIN DAVIS
Lieutenant Governor Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Trailblazer Award Recipient
Courtney Abegunde
Operations Director, Steel Smiling Program
Neighborhood Allies
Blessy Bellamy
Customer Experience Strategy Consultant
Highmark Health
Dr. Jimyse Lyn Brown
Executive Director
Moonshot Museum
Ashley Cabiness
Program Manager, South Pittsburgh ACTES; Co-Founder, Westside CARES
Tiaona Cade
Associate Director, Mary Beth and Miles Reidy Career Center
Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College of Information Systems & Public Policy
Christopher Carter, J.D.
Pitt Athletics Reporter, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette;
Sports Host/Guest, WPXI-TV
Jeremy Castrodad
Senior Distribution Technician Duquesne Light Company
Savionne Chambers
Instructor and Choreographer, Kulture Dance Academy; Dancer, Firewall Dance Theater
Melessie Clark
Actress
Nelson Cooper IV
Vice President, Relationship Manager-Corporate Banking, PNC;
Executive Director, Pittsburgh Hardball Academy
Jamillia Kamara Covington
Senior Program Officer for Education, The Pittsburgh Foundation; Principal, JINC&Co
Shea Craig
Chief Accountant and Treasurer Halco Mining Inc.
Kahlil G. Darden Jr.
CEO & Founder
Young Black Motivated Kings & Queens
Courtney Davenport
Vice President of Belonging & Inclusion BNY
Lesa DeGennaro
Coordinator, Member Engagement
UPMC Health Plan
Kelcei J. Edmonds-Tindal
Educator
Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship
Deainna Fitzgerald
CEO
Revealed Wellness Spa and Dee’s Beauty Bar
Glenn O. Ford
Director, Woodland Hills Impact Center
Councilmember, Borough of Rankin
Kashif Henderson
Executive Director
Neighborhood Learning Alliance
Kimberly Diana Jacobs
Curator and Exhibition Manager
August Wilson African American Cultural Center
Dr. Shenay Jeffrey
Community Relationships Manager
UPMC
Ashanté Josey
Visual Artist & Artist Advocate
AJosey Art
Dr. Anthony Kane Jr.
Assistant Vice President & Dean of Students
Saint Vincent College
Tyler Ray Kendrick
Actor, Comedian, and Educator
George W. Little Jr.
Assistant Principal, Logan Elementary School K-6 East Allegheny School District
Keith T. Marrow
Recruiter
Pittsburgh Regional Transit
Farren Mason Jr.
Owner, Generation Realty;
Supervisor for Permits License & Inspection, City of Pittsburgh
Derrick l. Maultsby Jr., Esq.
Attorney
Frost Brown Todd LLP
Trey McCune
Executive Director
Homewood-Brushton YMCA
Dr. Brittany McDonald-Pierce
Executive Director
Uptown Partners of Pittsburgh
Chidozie Christian Oparanozie
Manager of School Partnerships
Urban Impact Foundation
Shannon Prentiss
Dean of Student Affairs
The Neighborhood Academy
Fred Quinn III
Alumni Network Coordinator, Penn State University; Councilmember, Borough of Swissvale
Dr. MiIsha Reid
Program Director & Assistant Professor of Special Education Carlow University
Teona Ringgold
Director of JEDAI & Community Engagement
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
Dr. Jaleah N. Robinson
Clinical Assistant Professor of Special Education, Department of Educational Foundations & Leadership Duquesne University
Jonathan Royster
Assistant Vice President, McKees Rocks Branch
KeyBank
Khirsten L. Scott, PhD
Assistant Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture & Director of the Western PA Writing Program University of Pittsburgh
Nissa’a Stallworth-Hewitt
Commercial Kitchen Manager
Catapult of Greater Pittsburgh
Anthony R. Walls Jr.
Senior National Sales Manager-ASM
Global Management
David L. Lawrence Convention Center
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Affordable housing issue a key component of Gainey’s campaign
GAINEY FROM A1
and Gainey know that affordable housing is a key sticking point for city voters. "The 1600-plus units of affordable housing I've delivered during my time as mayor includes new homes, restored homes, homes for renters, and for first-time homebuyers —all priced affordably," Mayor Gainey said in a statement to the Courier, April 23, after he took the public on a tour of what his campaign called affordable housing success stories within Pittsburgh earlier that morning.
Those stops included: Pennley Commons and New Pennley Place, 5601 Penn Ave., East Liberty, where the two projects represent over 145 affordable rental units and 29 market-rate units preserved or currently under construction through the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP); the former Letsche School, 1530 Cliff St., Hill District, where 39 affordable and seven market-rate new rental units were completed through the URA and HACP; Ledlie St. Townhomes, 18 Ledlie St., Hill District, where two new 3-bedroom, 1.5 bathroom-townhomes are being constructed on formerly vacant, underutilized land; Bedford Dwellings, 1738 Reed St., Hill District, where the 411 units of the Bedford Dwellings public housing complex will be replaced and an additional 422 units of new rental housing across the current Bedford Dwellings location and three other locations in the Middle Hill District will be built; and the Mosaic Apartments, 3133 Forbes Ave., Oakland, where 48 units of LGBTQ-friendly senior housing will be constructed. Mayor Gainey, in his statement, continued: "These are homes for the
single moms and dads, hard-working parents trying to keep up with the cost of housing, for seniors on fixed incomes, folks working multiple jobs to stay afloat, young people and students getting their start, and social workers making $45,000 a year. Hundreds of these homes are completed, and hundreds more are under construction and will be available soon. They are homes on the North Side, Downtown, East Hills, Knoxville, Fairywood and too many more neighborhoods to name. These homes are already transforming the lives of regular Pittsburghers, and in my second term, I'll finish the work I started making safe, stable, affordable housing a reality for all."
Obtaining affordable housing is a complicated matter. In a city like Pittsburgh, where the steel mills have given way to eds, meds and tech, an influx of out-of-towners —primarily White—have moved and continue to move to Pittsburgh. Jobs are being secured at places like Google, the local universities, the local hospitals, and more. Salaries are good, causing real estate developers to flock to Pittsburgh and build new apartments that are priced at "market-rate." In layman terms, "market-rate" means upwards of $1,500 for a one-bedroom apartment, some in the range of $1,700 or more. As an example, Eastside Bond —the apartments that sit next to the East Liberty Busway, across from Target, marketed a studio apartment at $1,863 a month on April 29. A two bedroom was marketed for $3,459 per month.
More mostly-market-rate housing is being built right now on Shakespeare Street, where the East Liberty Giant Eagle formerly stood. Not only is a new Giant Eagle being developed, but above it will be apartments, the
price of which will be out of the range for most African Americans in Pittsburgh.
The current AMI, or Area Median Income, for Pittsburgh, is $64,137, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. "Market-rate" rents are being judged on that figure. "Affordable housing" usually refers to living situations for people whose individual income is no more than 50 percent of that AMI, which calculates to $32,068.
Most real estate developers want to go the market-rate route, which is why securing affordable housing units, especially new ones, require a great deal of negotiation and tax credits. Organizations like the URA, HACP and the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency have to get involved to make things sweet for the developer.
Mayor Gainey has been "put through the ringer" about his affordable housing numbers. O'Connor claims Gainey has only built or preserved "a few hundred" affordable housing units, and other local media outlets have tried to determine via their re-
search how many affordable housing units actually have been preserved or built.
However, Gainey's stance is firm, and during a press conference on Monday, April 28, at Freedom Corner in the Hill District, the mayor had 50 people, Whites and Blacks alike, supporting his affordable housing numbers and his re-election bid.
The Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers officially endorsed him during the press conference, as did the SEIU Local 668, City Councilmen Khari Mosley and R. Daniel Lavelle, and the organization One PA.
Local state representatives La'Tasha D. Mayes and Aerion Abney, along with Pittsburgh School Board Directors Devon Taliaferro and Sylvia Wil-
son, Alliance for Police Accountability CEO Brandi Fisher and Congresswoman Summer Lee had already endorsed Gainey. "Under Mayor Gainey, we don't just talk about change," Councilman Lavelle said at the press conference. "He makes it happen."
THE MEN OF IOTA PHI THETA FRATERNITY INC.
THE WOMEN OF DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY INC. (PHOTO BY J.L. MARTELLO)
THE MEN OF PHI BETA SIGMA FRATERNITY INC., AND THE WOMEN OF ZETA PHI BETA SORORITY INC. (PHOTO BY J.L. MARTELLO)
THE WOMEN OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INC., AT THE NATIONAL PAN-HELLENIC COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH MAYORAL FORUM, MARCH 27, ON THE NORTH SIDE. (PHOTO BY J.L. MARTELLO)
Neighborhood Learning Alliance's 'Women in the Workforce' awards 2025
AWARDEE MAYADA CHRISTIANSEN, WITH NLA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR KASHIF HENDERSON. AWARDEE ASHLEY JOHNSON, WITH NLA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR KASHIF HENDERSON.
AWARDEE TAMMY SPENCER BEY
Church of the Holy Cross' 150th Celebration, May 9
The 150th Celebration of the Church of the Holy Cross will be held on Friday, May 9, at the Edgewood Country Club, 100 Churchill Road, at 6 p.m. Sylvia Wilson tells the New Pittsburgh Courier that Right Reverend Michael Bruce Curry, who served as the 27th presiding Bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church, will be the keynote speaker. Bishop Curry is the first and only African American to serve in the position. Harold Hayes, retired KDKA-TV reporter, will serve as the Master of Ceremonies. For more
information, call 412-2423209. A brief history
Holy Cross had its start on the North Side of Pittsburgh as a place of worship for the Black workers who weren't accepted in the White churches. The church had a few homes before settling in the Hill District. It was located next to the old Centre Avenue YMCA. In the 1950s, the church moved to its current location at 7507 Kelly Street in Homewood.
Holy Cross played a large role in Pittsburgh's
Civil Rights Movement, when, under the leadership of Canon Junius Carter, Alma Speed Fox was a Holy Cross member and her role at that time with both the church and the NAACP was unparalleled. Mrs. Mary Lou Stone began the HBCU college tours from Holy Cross. She connected her students at Westinghouse High School and also the youth at Holy Cross with this visitation. The college tour has grown and still exists in Pittsburgh as others took on the task of managing the HBCU tours.
Reverend A. Marie Walker’s Weekly Inspiration
“Fret not thyself because of evil doers, neither be you envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.”
- Psalm 37:1-2
REV. WALKER SAYS: Don’t worry about people that plan evil or be envious of those who profit from hurting others. God knows and sees everything. What we are to do is pray that they would repent. As long as you are living it’s never too late to change our ways and turn to Jesus.
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HOLY CROSS MEMBER SYLVIA WILSON, RIGHT, IN THIS 2018 PHOTO FROM THE CHURCH’S FRIENDS AND FAMILY DAY.
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SINS OF THE FATHER
A shame how far Deion Sanders’ son, Shedeur,
Let me begin with an excerpt from a scripture in the Holy Bible. The book of Exodus 20:5 tells us, “You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God.”
I usually attempt to separate matters of church and state, and I have generally been successful at doing so. However, after the 2025 NFL Draft concluded on April 26, I had a difficult time doing that because I did not get a wink of sleep. My spirit was deeply troubled. Troubled by the most biased and egregious evaluation and analysis of a single NFL talent that I have ever seen in more than four decades covering professional football. University of Colorado Buffaloes quarterback
Shedeur Sanders, son of NFL Hall-of-Fame great Deion Sanders, was predicted by many prognosticators as one of the premier players who would be drafted early in the first round of the Draft.
Shedeur Sanders is a quarterback who resurrected not one, but two football programs that were left for dead. The first program that he resuscitated was Jackson State, an HBCU. The second school was Colorado, a member of the Big 12 Conference, not exactly an NCAA Division III football program. Sanders was eventually drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the 5th round. Why did his stock sink so low? Was he secretly injured or did an off-the-field incident place in character in a questionable light? The answer to both questions is an emphatic no, or as Homey the Clown might say: “I don’t think so.” This farce was definitely a carnival-like Draft complete with lots of smoke and mirrors.
The Alpha of the Sanders legacy and the Omega of that legacy began si-
multaneously on April 23, 1989, when Deion Sanders was the fifth overall player selected by the Atlanta Falcons in the first round.
On September 23, 2023, Henry Palattella wrote a story and posted it on mlb.com titled: Way before “Coach Prime,” Deion took baseball by storm. “One of the fastest people I’ve ever seen,” said MLB Network’s Harold Reynolds, who played against Sanders in his MLB debut. “He had style, flair and he was a heck of a player. It was fun to play and compete against him.”
The first six years of Sanders’ career were spent with the Yankees and Reds, with the highlight in 1992, when he tried to play in an NFL game and NLCS game in the same day. While it didn’t work out, Sanders ended up playing in that year’s World Series, where he hit .533 (Sanders still holds the distinction of being the only player to play in both a World Series and Super Bowl). After temporarily retiring from baseball, Sanders made his return in 2001 and announced his presence on Opening Day with a home run and a stolen base.
An article posted by Daniel Mader on sportingnews.com on April 22, 2025 said: “Deion Sanders’ 1989 NFL Draft revisited: How Prime Time spurned Lions, Giants and landed with the Falcons continues the praise of the Hallof-Famer and sports icon.”
“Sanders earned plenty of high expectations before the Draft. One Tampa Tribune writer said he ‘could be one of the best cornerbacks ever to come into the game,’ while Sanders’ teammate at Florida State, LeRoy Butler, said the corner has ‘feet like O.J. Simpson,’ is ‘faster than Bo Jackson’ and had ‘the hands of Larry Bird.’”
The article continued:
“There were some con-
cerns over Sanders’ baseball career; he’d already started his professional baseball career by 1989. He also had personal demands, making his requests to play for certain teams very clear.”
Oh, hell no. Shedeur Sanders was not going to come into the 2025 NFL Draft dictating the narrative like his daddy did in 1989. Folks were determined to put and keep the younger Sanders “boy” in his place. Many folks still
hate and will never forget the fact that his daddy was the first athlete to play and compete, I said compete, because Deion Sanders didn’t sit on the bench in the Super Bowl or the World Series, he played and was great at both sports! As far as the Sanders legacy goes, some folks are determined that the legacy stops with Deion.
Can’t you see the sparks flying from the wheels of blacksmiths across America on the night before the 2025 NFL Draft? I hear them sharpening their “daggers of injustice” with innuendos and slander preparing to slice and dice the credibility of Shedeur Sanders just because he was birthed from the loins of greatness.
Tacuma Roeback posted an article on chicagodefender.com titled, “Shedeur Sanders’ NFL Draft Slide Wasn’t About Football. It Was Personal.” Mr. Roeback points out that:
“What happened to Shedeur—being picked much later than projected— looked, smelled, and felt like a message: that this brash, Black, privileged quarterback had to be put
fell in the NFL Draft
in his place. More than that, it seemed the league made an example out of him and everything he represents: the new-age college athlete, already famous and well-compensated through name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals, who wouldn’t play by their rules. Conform or suffer the consequences. And that ultimatum echoes beyond football. It makes me think about people from every walk of life who get punished for what they represent, not for how well they do the job. It’s a dull agony,
knowing that in this political moment, being Black, excellent, knowledgeable, and confident still invites resentment—and punishment.”
Shedeur Sanders was punished and will probably continue to be penalized just because his father, Deion Sanders, arguably the greatest twosport athlete in America in more than a century, had the nerve to be cocky and confident. Think of Black Americans in the past who dared to display confidence in themselves. Jack Johnson,
Flood, Jackie Robin-
are
of those who refused to bow down to and accept systemic and generational bias and injustice. The latest target and victim is Shedeur Sanders. The beat goes on and on and on. Or should I say, “The beat-down goes on.” The message to Shedeur Sanders is: “Never get too big for your britches, especially if you’re naked.”
The real NFL...Who’s the boss?
Shedeur Sanders goes from
:10—Needless to say... me, you, “Smokin’ Jim” Frazier and every other football mind has offered an opinion on the Shedeur Sanders debacle. Fortunately for you, this is the only place to find “the truth...the whole truth...and nothing but the truth.” Herein lies the rarely seen but sometimes needed “TEN WITHIN THE TEN” reasons why! (I actually made that up, but it sounds good, doesn’t it?!) Top ten reasons why Sanders got dissed: #1. Of course there was ownership collusion and don’t let anyone tell ya different. That was a clear shoutout as to who the boss is! #2. Promises made but not kept. People telling his dad what he wanted to hear, not what they really believed, just to stay on his good side. #3. To that point, absolutely too much “Prime Time” presence. Coach Prime, if your son is now a man, let him be his own man! #4. That goes for you too, LeBron James...and by the way, LBJ...can you win a playoff run? (Sorry, my bad...I digress!). #5 Yet, there is “0” reason for this young man to fall out of the first round given his skill set, talent level, projection and accomplishments as a major college player. #6. If Mel Kiper Jr. is the proclaimed Lord of the NFL Draft and says Shedeur should be in the top level of the draft class, then I go with Mel! #7. OK, OK, maybe he’s not your “top dog,” but you and I
both know that not all five quarterbacks drafted ahead of Sanders are better than him...c’mon man! #8. All that being said, it doesn’t help your cause when you tell teams where you will not play!!! #9. Humility goes a long way, no matter who your father is. When you go to college pro day, break a sweat like everybody else!!! #10. Now the rest is up to you...show up and show out!
:09—Moving on, let’s take a look at our Pittsburgh Steelers Draft picks - 1. Derrick Harmon, Oregon, D-Line. With no second-round pick due to the D.K. Metcalf trade, we move to the third round. 3. Kaleb Johnson, Iowa, Running Back. 4. Jack Sawyer, Ohio State, Edge/OLB. 5. Yahya Black, Iowa, D-Line/Nose Tackle. 6. Will Howard, Ohio State, QB. 7. Carson Bruener, Washington, LB. 7. Donte Kent, Central Michigan, CB. As with all drafts, it’s a total crap shoot. Remember, every NFL team passed on Tom Brady five times, but I’m giving it an “A” rating because it seems like they did what they had to do and addressed their most glaring needs.
:08—In the last two meetings against the hated Ravens including the playoff drubbing, the Ravens ran up over 500 yards rushing against the Steelers. I don’t know about you, but I got real tired real fast looking at the back of Derrick Henry’s jersey as he raced into
the secondary on seemingly every running play. By drafting the very highly-rated Derrick Harmon in the first round and the mammoth 6’5,” 340-pound Yahya Black in the fifth round, the Steelers have taken the necessary steps in shoring up what was the most glaring problem of the defense (and needless to say we want to extend our deepest sympathies and condolences to Derrick Harmon and his
family for the passing of his beloved mother, who amazingly and unfortunately passed in the same hour that he was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers). With the future Hall of Famer Cam Heyward and Keeanu Benton, these two young men will no doubt be able to hold the line against the Ravens and any team trying to pound the rock against the middle of our line.
:07—Yeah, I was against not signing Najee Harris, the man never missed a game, rarely fumbled, ran for 1,000 yards every season behind a Swiss cheese offensive line and played with heart, grit and determination on every play. But the drafting of Kaleb Johnson, who won’t turn
22 until August, eases my mind a bit. Kaleb is very reminiscent of Najee, a tough, gritty, strong back not afraid of contact, but also seems to have a better hit-the-hole reaction and with a somewhat new O-Line, should be able to break a few more runs than Najee. I’m impressed with his 6.4 yards-per-carry average, his durability and the fact he ran for 1,500 yards against some very stout defenses last season at Iowa.
:06—Let’s stick with the offense and talk about round six pick QB Will Howard out of Ohio State. First, the man’s a stud— 6’4” and 236 pounds of talent. Howard was initially the QB of Kansas State where he set season and career records in TD passes and led the Wildcats to the 2022 Big 12 Championship. After transferring to Ohio State, he led them to the national championship last season, completed 71 percent of his passes and in the run up to the title, threw for eight touchdowns. Jon Gruden said Howard is the QB coming out this year that will absolutely have the most success in the NFL and be a big time stud at QB. I believe Howard is the steal of the draft and will be the starter sooner rather than later.
:05—That brings us to our fourth-round selection, another Ohio State national championship team member, edge rusher and soon to be a Steelers outside linebacker, Jack Sawyer. If your mind
needs refreshing, I know mine does from time to time, Sawyer was the guy with the strip sack and 83-yard TD rumble late in the Cotton Bowl against Texas to seal the deal and send Ohio State to the title game. At 6’4” and 260 pounds, Sawyer is the right size for a pass rushing, run stuffing outside linebacker in the Steelers defensive scheme. He’s got all the right intangibles to succeed in a big way and with mentors T.J. Watt, Nick Herbig and Alex Highsmith, the sky’s the limit for Sawyer. That everyone in the organization and NFL pundits across the TV screen are praising this young man’s character, his knack for making big plays, his toughness, “Unbelievable across the board,” described by defensive coordinator Teryl Austin, it bodes well for Sawyer’s imminent success. Mark my words, boys and girls, Jack Sawyer has “Big Time” written all over his future in the NFL.
:04—As for the two seventh-round picks, Carson Bruener, son of former Steelers tight end Mark Bruener, linebacker out of Washington, and Donte Kent, cornerback out of Central Michigan, barring any catastrophic run of injuries at either of their positions, both young men will need to excel at special teams play, which Bruener is said to already be a demon on, to more than likely make the roster. The talk is already about putting Kent in
as the slot corner and he does have some skill as a punt returner, so both should help him adjust to the NFL and also help him make the final roster.
:03—Your Pittsburgh Steelers come out of the draft looking pretty damn smart, no reach picks, no surprise picks, stayed pat with their positioning and picked situational players that addressed the problems they had last year. All the players chosen are quality character guys who will come in from Day 1 and work their tails off to achieve their lifetime dreams of playing in the NFL without idiotic distractions. Mike Tomlin and Omar Khan are to be applauded for this draft and the men they chose to carry on the Pittsburgh Steelers legacy. Way to go, men.
:02—Before we move on, let’s give a moment to think on the Aaron Rodgers situation. He’s 41 and a prima donna. Okay, I’m good, how about you?
:01—We would be remiss not to mention our main guy from the Pirates, Paul Skenes. Friday night, April 25, against the $300 million dollar payroll L.A. Dodgers, Skenes pitched 6.1 innings, allowed 5 meaningless hits, zero (0), that’s right, zero (0) walks, 9 strikeouts and zero (0) runs, overwhelming the Dodgers with a dazzling display of power and pitching acumen. He is phenomenal. Period. :00—GAME OVER.
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PROPERTY IS POWER!
The Invisible Eligible: Why banks must recognize the Black working class
There’s a crucial segment within the Black community often overlooked in the homeownership conversation: the hardworking Black middle class. These are individuals who show up every day as educators, tradespeople, health aides, municipal workers, office professionals, many of whom have built strong credit profiles and consistently contribute to employer-sponsored retirement accounts. They’ve done the “right things” financially: maintained stable employment, paid bills on time, and saved what they could.
Yet, despite these solid financial foundations, many in this demographic are unaware that the assets they’ve quietly built such as 401(k) balances or pension funds can be strategically leveraged to purchase a home. Others may not fully understand the flexible pathways to ownership that are available, simply because those options have never been clearly presented to them in a culturally competent and empowering way.
The gap here isn’t one of ability or effort, it’s one of access, education, and awareness. Too
often, the financial industry focuses on either high-net-worth individuals or low-income assistance programs, bypassing those who fall somewhere in between. This middle ground is where many Black families reside, but underserved by systems that don’t see their true potential. Empowering this group means not only expanding access to lending, but also demystifying the tools, terms, and opportunities that can turn stable renters into confident, prepared homeowners. What Banks Can Do More Of...
1. Authentic Engagement Banks must move beyond surface-level outreach. Genuine commitment involves offering meaningful financial education, specifically tailored to show how existing retirement assets can help secure a mortgage.
2. Smaller Loans, Bigger Impact Institutions often shy away from smaller loan amounts but embracing these can profoundly impact communities. Banks should actively facilitate and streamline the processes for smaller mortgages, recognizing their transformative potential.
3. Redefine “Underserved”
The term “underserved” is often misused. True service requires personalized financial products and attentive customer support tailored to everyday working-class individuals who maintain
SEE PROPERTY IS POWER B2
Tariffs are crushing Black women, advocate warns
by Stacy M. Brown
The Washington Informer
As the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs take effect, Mica Whitfield, co-president and CEO of 9to5, National Association of Working Women, warns that the policies are another economic blow to already vulnerable communities—especially Black women.
“These tariffs are just a tax on working people, especially working women,” Whitfield said on the “Let It Be Known News” show. “They’re making decisions at the gas pump about groceries while rent is already sky-high. One in three single mothers is already living in poverty—tariffs push them closer to the edge.”
Whitfield, who leads 9to5’s mission for economic justice for working women and non-binary people of color, said these new economic burdens should be viewed through a gendered lens. She compared them to the long-standing “pink tax”—the added cost women pay for everyday items like razors and personal care products—only much worse.
“We can think of it as the pink tariff,” she said. “Women already pay more with smaller financial margins. These tariffs just stack on top of that.”
In practical terms, the price hikes caused by tariffs reach deep into women’s lives, especially for those working in care industries or running small businesses. From higher prices on diapers and cleaning supplies for child care providers, to increased costs for raw materials for Black-owned hair care brands, Whitfield explained the domino effect is widespread.
“Black women are the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs, but they’re already struggling with access to capital,” she said. “Now they’re forced to find new sources for packaging or ingredients just to stay afloat. This could close doors for so many of them.”
She said the same goes for caregivers.
“We work with Black and Brown women who provide child care in their homes or run small centers,” Whitfield asserted. “Tariffs raise prices for the essentials they need—wipes, toys, and cleaning supplies—which are already expensive. This is the kind of pressure that can bring the whole house down.”
As Americans suffer from the fallout, states like California, under Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), have floated the idea of independent trade negotiations. However, Whitfield, who is based in Georgia, noted that such state-level innovation isn’t possible everywhere.
“Red states have been slow to respond to the administration,” she said.
“Our folks in Georgia and Wisconsin are doing the resistance work on the ground, but it’s tough. We’re watching states like California try to hold the line while others leave working people to carry the burden.”
Whitfield noted part of her organization’s work is to make economic issues like tariffs more accessible.
“Tariffs sound abstract, but they’re not. They’re a working people’s issue,”
she said. “We’ve estimated they’ll cost the average family about $3,800 a year—around $300 a month. That’s a real hit.”
She also worries about the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to programs like Head Start, which she said would devastate communities of color.
our focus now is specifically on those doing low-wage, care-based jobs — mostly Black and Brown women,” she said.
Though federal wins have grown more elusive, 9to5 continues to build power locally, pushing for change through city commissions, public ser-
Tariffs imposed by the Trump administration are causing significant economic hardship for working women, particularly lower-income Black women.
“These programs are already deeply underfunded. Millions of children who qualify don’t get access,” she said.
“Gutting Head Start means more kids without early education and more parents, mostly mothers—unable to work. It’s a domino effect that sets back another generation of Black and Brown children.”
9to5 Continues Justice Work
Founded in Boston over 50 years ago, 9to5 inspired the classic 1980 film
“Nine to Five,” starring Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
Today, the organization operates chapters in Colorado, Wisconsin, and Georgia, organizing working women and non-binary people around issues like child care, paid leave, workplace harassment, and economic justice.
“Sending solidarity to women facing a tough fight at work [with] Dolly Parton’s wise words from her 1980 anthem 9 to 5,” a social media user wrote on X. “Dolly wrote it for the film, which was related to the 9to5 National Association of Working Women.”
Whitfield and her Co-President Ashley Panelli, are the first Black women to lead the organization.
“Our roots are in worker justice, but
vice boards, and school boards.
“In Southwest Georgia, people were paying power bills as high as their rent,” Whitfield said. “So, we started organizing around public service commissioner races and utility boards— things people didn’t realize directly impact their lives.”
When asked how she got into this work, Whitfield traced her activism back to the Million Woman March in Philadelphia, which she attended as a preteen. Her path continued through public health and maternal justice work before she joined 9to5.
“I worked with newly diagnosed women living with HIV, many who found out their status while pregnant,” she said. “The intersection between economic stability and health became clear to me. From zip code to paycheck, it all impacts Black women’s well-being.”
Now, she’s calling on the public to see tariffs for what they are: taxes that hit the most vulnerable the hardest.
“This isn’t abstract,” Whitfield said. “It’s going to impact your pockets.”
(This post was originally published on The Washington Informer)
Breaking the cycle of financial ignorance
Most Americans ain’t anywhere close to reaching their savings goals.
A recent survey of 2,000 Americans conducted by “Talker Research” shows only 13 percent feel “very good” about their financial situation right now. Another 28 percent say they feel “somewhat good.”
The majority of Americans feel shaky, stressed, and stuck when it comes to their money!
They’re grinding hard, but still falling behind. They’re watching prices rise, bills stack up, and their savings accounts collect more dust than dollars. People Want Better. They Just Don’t Know How. Deep down, most folks want to win with money. They want to save more, live debt-free, build wealth, and sleep better at night. The problem? Nobody ever handed them the blueprint. They’re stuck trying to build a financial future with broken tools—bad habits, no guidance, and fear of making the wrong move. Despite all the shaky feelings, there’s a bright spot: 84 percent of people are waking up and realizing— “If I don’t get my money right now, I might not make it later.” With inflation running wild, layoffs hitting hard, and prices jumping every time you blink, setting themselves up for financial success has become non-negotiable. Folks aren’t just hoping things get better anymore—they know they got-
ta make moves, get educated, and lock down their bag before the next storm hits.
They’re trying to do something about it:
• 51 percent are actively trying to boost their financial knowledge.
• 59 percent have concrete plans to keep learning and growing. When it comes to leveling up their money game, here’s how Americans plan to get smarter:
- 69 percent said they’ll start tracking every dollar: No more “I don’t know where my money went” excuses—they’re ready to monitor spending like a hawk and plug the leaks in their budget.
money knowledge— learning strategies while they drive, walk, or chill.
- 22 percent say they’ll talk more openly about money with family: Breaking the silence—because real financial healing starts at the kitchen table. Families are ready to stop hiding struggles and start building wealth together.
- 28 percent plan to regularly read financial news: They know staying informed is key—no more getting blindsided by market crashes, rate hikes, or new money moves.
- 28 percent want to start using budgeting apps: People are turning their phones into financial command centers using budgeting apps to make it easier to see where they stand at a glance.
- 23 percent are tuning into financial podcasts: Instead of mindless scrolling, folks are feeding their brains with real
Folks are waking up fast. They’re realizing the hard truth: No bailout coming. No magic fix. If they want to win with money, they gotta be their own rescue team. Here’s where it gets deep:
- 74 percent of people manage their own money, but only HALF trust themselves to do it right. Why? Because they were never taught how to handle money in the first place! A lack of early financial education has left a lot of people feeling insecure, lost, and scared when it comes to money decisions.
One out of every five Americans grew up with ZERO financial education from their parents.
For older generations, the gap was even wider:
• 35 percent of Baby Boomers said their parents never taught them anything about money.
• 30 percent of Generation X faced the same struggle — no money talks, no money lessons.
• 25 percent of Millennials grew up flying blind financially too.
No wonder so many folks today feel lost with their finances. The cycle of financial ignorance ran deep across generations —and we’re still feeling the impact.
But here’s the good news: Gen Z is flipping the script. Only 20 percent of Gen Z said they didn’t get financial education at home— a major improvement compared to the generations before them. The cycle is finally starting to break— but make no mistake, we still got work to do. Financial self-empowerment is on the rise.
Even with all the financial fear in the air, 76 percent of Americans say they want to take control and empower themselves to manage money better. 18 percent of Americans say over the past year, they’ve gotten even more disillusioned with big banks and financial institutions. People are realizing the system ain’t always built to help them win. So they’re flipping the script—moving from avoidance to action.
It’s not enough to just “budget better” or “save more.”
ANTHONY O. KELLUM
U.S. Senate gives big banks $21 billion gift from consumers by undoing overdraft rule
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—While news headlines continue to focus on the chaos, confusion and legal challenges caused by the new administration’s recent changes, it could be easy to miss recent congressional actions that will cost consumers more than $5 billion annually in unnecessary and excessive bank overdraft fees
On March 27, a 52-48 Senate roll call vote the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) overdraft rule was overturned. It would have lowered the typical cost of an overdraft fee at very large banks (with at least $10 billion in assets) from around $35 to $5. The measure now moves to the House of Representatives, where it is expected to soon pass, and then reach the president’s desk for final action.
South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, who chairs the chamber’s Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, sponsored a Congressional Review Act resolution that only required a simple majority to pass. Should the House concur with a second majority vote, large lenders could charge fees much higher than the actual cost of an overdraft to the financial institution. Following the Senate vote, Scott claimed a consumer victory—despite a wealth of research that documents massive and negative financial impact to consumers paying excessive overdraft fees.
“This overdraft conversation is a critically important conversation if you are like me, a guy who grew up in poverty,
a single parent household, who understands the difficulty, the challenge, of single moms making those ends meet,” said Scott. “I want every single hardworking American to have access to our financial system.”
But access on what terms?
It is curious that Sen. Scott’s comments do not acknowledge how overdraft fees already disproportionately impact Black and Latino consumers.
Charlene Crowell
“Black and Latino consumers are already four to five times more likely to be unbanked than white Americans,” wrote the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) in a comment letter supporting the overdraft rule.?“They are also disproportionately likely to be ejected from the financial mainstream. Ejection from the mainstream financial system can have long-lasting and negative systemic effects.”
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dollars of relief each year from reaching families living paycheck-to-paycheck while letting huge financial institutions perpetually price gouge these families.” CFPB’s overdraft rule required bank fees to correspond with their actual costs and losses—instead of generating a revenue stream designed to boost bank profits. Also, by requiring bank account-opening disclosures, consumers would assured choices to compare offerings, and decide whether to pay overdraft fees automatically or manually. A near 300-member coalition of national and state advocates in civil rights, labor, religion, higher education, and other areas are working to raise awareness about the need to continue CFPB’s consumer protections.
lenders.”
“It is shameful that Republicans are effectively writing bonus checks to executives at the nation’s largest banks while ordinary people struggle with high prices and increased costs of living,” added Lauren Saunders, the National Consumer Law Center’s associate director.
“Banking charters were never supposed to be a license to rip people off, but unfortunately, many banks rely on gotcha penalty fees to pad their profits, effectively diminishing the difference between insured depositories and payday lenders,” noted Adam Rust, director of financial services for the Consumer Federation of America. “Reversing this rule is a gift to banks, and if the House goes forward with their version, it will harm people for decades to come.”
CRL urged senators to vote for the interests of consumers, not the profits of large banks.
“This legislation, which should be called the ‘High Bank Fees Forever Act,’ would block the type of price cut that Americans have been clamoring for,” said Nadine Chabrier, senior policy counsel at CRL.
“The measure would deny hundreds of
“The CFPB is an agency of the people. From the protection from junk fees, to fighting excessive overdraft fees, providing assistance to impacted victims of natural disasters, and holding predatory practices accountable, the NAACP stands firm in bringing back the CFPB,” said Keisha D. Bross, NAACP Director of Opportunity, Race, and Justice.”
The NAACP will fight to hold financial entities responsible for the years of inequitable practices from big banks and
As the measure advances to the House for further deliberation, California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee, posed an apt question to her colleagues:
“Whether you like the CFPB or not, it doesn’t make any sense to hike bank fees on 23 million hard-working families,” said the longtime lawmaker, “Why do you want to force them to pay $5 billion in more fees every year?
(Charlene Crowell is a senior fellow with the Center for Responsible Lending.)
The Invisible Eligible: Why banks must recognize the Black working class
steady incomes and excellent credit scores.
4. Real Community Partnerships
Genuine investment means consistent involvement, not occasional sponsorships or superficial events. Continuous education programs, dedicated advisors, and real follow-through can reshape community perceptions and empower aspiring homeowners.
What Banks Can Do to Take an Authentic Approach
If banks are serious about serving the Black working class, not just appearing to, they need to move beyond performative outreach and adopt a purpose-driven, community-centered approach. Here’s what an authentic approach looks like:
1. Start with Listening Banks must spend time on the ground at churches, union halls, local schools, and community centers listening to what people need. Too often, financial institutions lead with assumptions instead of insights. Listening first allows banks to tailor solutions that reflect real challenges and aspirations.
2. Design Programs That Reflect Real Life
Many Black working-class families have decent jobs, steady income, and some retirement savings but they may not have large savings accounts or inheritances. Programs should reflect these realities by:
• Allowing for alternative sources of down payment (like borrowing against a 401(k) or using gift funds).
• Reducing unnecessary overlays that disqualify otherwise solid borrowers.
• Offering flexibility with non-traditional credit evaluations.
3. Staff Matters, Representation Counts Hire and train mortgage professionals who reflect the communities they serve. Representation builds trust. When borrowers see people who look like them and understand their lived experiences, they’re more likely to engage and ask the right questions.
4. Follow up with Action, Not Just Sponsorships Hosting or sponsoring a firsttime homebuyer seminar is a good start, but it doesn’t end there. Real impact requires:
• Follow-up consultations with attendees.
• Clear next steps toward mortgage readiness.
• Dedicated advisors who walk with clients through the process not just for one event, but for the journey.
5. Create Measurable Accountability
Banks must set internal goals to improve mortgage access for Black working-class borrowers, then publicly report on those metrics. This creates a culture of accountability and builds public trust. CRA efforts mean little if they don’t result in real, sustainable homeownership. What Black Homebuyers
Can Do More Of...
1. Boost Financial Literacy
Seek education on how retirement funds, like 401(k)s or IRAs, can support homeownership. Understand your financial standing and explore all available assets.
2. Ask Better Questions Engage proactively with lenders about products specifically designed for your financial profile. Don’t hesitate to ask how your existing assets can be leveraged effectively.
3. Strengthen Community Networks Share experiences and knowledge within your community. Networking events focused on
financial literacy and homeownership can demystify the borrowing process and build confidence among potential homeowners.
4. Advocate for Fair Access Demand transparency and accountability from banks and lending institutions. Highlighting successful and unsuccessful experiences publicly encourages lenders to improve their service and offerings. Real progress in closing the homeownership gap lies in addressing this overlooked demography. It’s time to shine a light on the hardworking Black working class, ensuring their path to homeownership is clear,
accessible, and empowering. Because property is power. (Dr. Anthony O. Kellum – CEO of Kellum Mortgage, LLC Homeownership Advocate, Speaker, Author NMLS # 1267030 NMLS #1567030 O: 313-263-6388 W: www.KelluMortgage.com.)
(Property is Power! is a movement to promote home and community ownership. Studies indicate homeownership leads to higher graduation rates, family wealth, and community involvement.)
Breaking the cycle of financial ignorance
DAMON CARR FROM B1
You gotta believe you can WIN with money! Without that mindset shift? You stay stuck on the hamster wheel—working harder but going nowhere.
What Are Americans Actually Focusing On?
When asked what financial goals they’re chasing right now, here’s what Americans said:
• 53 percent are focused on saving more money.
• 32 percent are working to eliminate or reduce debt.
• 27 percent want to stop stressing over bills in 2025.
• 27 percent are building a “rainy day” fund.
• 26 percent are trying to boost their credit score.
Folks are tired of living checkto-check, hand-to-mouth, hoping for miracles. They want real security, real options and real financial peace.
Handling your money is both personal and emotional. It’s fear. It’s pride. It’s shame. It’s hope. It’s everything you were taught, everything you’ve been through, and everything you dream about. Getting a grip on your money isn’t just about a spreadsheet. It’s about building emotional resilience, self-trust, and knowledge that fuels smart decision-making. You can’t win financially if you stay scared of
money. You gotta get in the ring, take some hits, learn the game, and bet on YOU. If you’re sitting around waiting on a bank, a credit union, a lottery ticket, a politician, or even your job to rescue you— you already lost.
er you can start building real wealth.
The good news is—you don’t have to wait on anybody. The power to change your financial story is in YOUR hands. Track your money. Learn the rules. Set real goals. Bet on yourself. Self-trust? That’s your foundation. Knowledge? That’s your fuel. Action? That’s your secret sauce. One without the other won’t get you far. But when you lock all three together?
don’t just reach your savings goals—you crush ‘em,
Guest Editorial
Disturbing thoughts
Americans are experiencing a new state of being due to the machinations of the new Trump administration: there is an “us vs. them” sentiment apparent throughout the country. This chilling undercurrent threatens to have far-reaching ramifications. It also poses questions regarding the malevolence of the current U.S. political establishment.
Truly, a disproportionate number of people have lost their lives during Trump’s occupation of the White House. For example, at the culmination of his first term, he was allegedly the mover and shaker behind an attempted coup; Five people lost their lives that day and 174 police officers were seriously injured during the attack on the Capitol Building. Also, during his first term, millions of people died during the COVID-19 pandemic, largely due to Trump’s initial and inappropriate responses.
The foregoing was just the tip of a very cold and malevolent iceberg. To illustrate this point, consider what happened before Trump ascended to the office that he thinks is a throne room. The Central Park Five were Black and brown youth who were accused of attacking a female jogger in Central Park in New York City in 1989. Trump took out a full-page ad in a widely-read publication calling for the execution of the youth. As it turned out, the actual perpetrator confessed, and the Central Park Five were exonerated. Even though that was the case, Trump insisted that the youth be executed anyway. (Fortunately, he didn’t get his way). This is very disturbing and points to a malevolent mindset dominating the Oval Office.
In addition to the foregoing, the President is on a very negative pathway regarding his perceived enemies. The Trump regime is a Revenge Presidency —he has his sights set on destroying anyone that he considers an opponent.
On another note, there have been a number of aviation mishaps in which people have lost their lives; this happened after Trump reduced the number of staff. The first one on January 29 occurred just shortly after Trump ascended to office. Sadly, 67 people died that day; when President Trump convened a press conference to address the situation, he blamed everything on previous administrations, along with what he alleged were “DEI” hires. This was an incredibly negative and ridiculous response coming from a sitting American president; it was insensitive to turn that tragedy into an opportunity to slander his political enemies.
The insensitive behavior didn’t end there. Trump has always left mayhem in his wake. He cut funds for cancer research, which will contribute to deaths. His administration is in the process of creating havoc in the stock market due to seemingly impractical tariffs; and his dismantling of anything that celebrates Black people is an apparent goal. The cuts to USAID are threatening the actual lives of vulnerable populations abroad, as well as endangering the lives of American citizens. Realistically, due to current actions, any trumped-up charges that the ‘Leader of MAGA’ chooses to impose can result in incarceration or deportation. The cuts that his administration is proposing will undoubtedly cause the demise of other Americans.
The foregoing gives clues about the type of energy that we’re dealing with in the Trump administration, and it’s not pleasant. People all over America have been demonstrating against the actions of the regime, but, interestingly, a number of African Americans are not participating in the demonstrations. There are various reasons given for this, but one of the most prominent is that this is “their” fight (i.e., White folks), and that Black people should “sit this one out!” They also believe that the demonstrations are part of an authoritarian ploy to eventually morph into an excuse to enact martial law. People could be rounded up and deported and/or imprisoned.
There is a lot more that could be said about the current monarch-wanna-be’s tendency toward embracing his “dark side.” One of the most frightening thoughts in this regard is his war on Black and brown people. For this reason alone, Black people can’t have the luxury of “sitting this one out,” because the actions of this administration can hurt All Americans. After the smoke clears, in hindsight, some Black folks might regret not lending their expertise to address this landmark challenge. Aluta continua.
(Reprinted from the Chicago Crusader)
Rod Doss Editor & Publisher
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—Donald
Trump has been in office for what has already seemed like a lifetime and it’s hard to believe it’s only been three months of his horror show.
We never know what to expect from him as the days go by, but we who are members of the melaninated world know that since the word means having non-white skin we are not the ones for which any good is meant no matter what good we do and no matter how good we are in what we do, but as Tina Turner always said, “We just keep on rolling!”
I was looking at the NFL Draft a few nights ago, and we saw so many young Black men selected in the First Round of the Draft. I was so proud of all of them. The first person to get the congratulatory hug was the players Mom! I loved it! There is just something special about our people succeeding when they’ve grown up with so much against them! I don’t mean just in sports, but in science, in education, in medicine, in the military—no matter where there is an opportunity. And they aren’t DEI hires as what the orange man and his crew think what DEI means! Often White people get preferential treatment with far less talent. They rarely learn the meaning of being cheated out of something they deserve. Non-White people so often succeed through hard work and nearly always after racist treatment!
Others may not have learned this, but most of us in the Black community already know the orange man will come up with something to do as much damage as he can to us, but nothing good. One would think no melaninated person would still be expecting something good to happen that is in our best interest.
Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq.
We’ve already seen enough to the contrary to know the truth. If you think orange man has good intentions for us, you would be seriously misled—so I just can’t explain for you how the few who meet the definition are still sitting around trying to convince us how great he is and that all the turmoil he has already created is somehow benefitting us! If there is but one lesson we must learn, it is that we must begin to help ourselves! One of the ways to do that is to listen to Black spokespersons like the Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant, Senior Pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church of Georgia, as he leads the selective buying campaign away from those insisting upon following in the footsteps of the orange man. We must begin to shop where we are appreciated—and it’s not at Target!
Among the destructive things the orange man has already done are the following:
• Alienated our allies throughout the world.
• Started the tariffs argument without knowing how tariffs work.
• Identified so closely with Russia’s President Putin that we no longer can tell the difference in the two.
• Has thrown the Palestinian and Ukrainian people to the wolves
• Allowed Elon Musk to take over everything to do with money, while selling Elon’s cars on the White House lawn; selling his
MAGA hats from the Oval Office, and charging friends to hold the Easter Egg Hunt for children where I didn’t see the faces of melaninated children this year. Maybe some were invited, but I haven’t met one who was invited!
• Threatened Harvard by cutting funds and threatened Costco that treats us fairly.
• Pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
• Attempting to eliminate birthright citizenship and wrongly arresting, jailing and throwing innocent people out of the country.
• Sided with Billionaires over everyday Americans.
• Signed executive orders to hurt marginalized groups.
• Had the nerve to classify VP Kamala Harris as low IQ while she ran circles around him in the 2024 election.
• Had the nerve to classify Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett low life and low IQ. (She has rightly challenged him to take an IQ test to settle the matter! She added, as for the low life part, he obviously meant to place his own name there!).
• Shut down the Dept. of Education: Closed USAID; Fired thousands of hardworking Americans without cause.
• Used vulgar parts of his body to be kissed, while describing what world leaders are doing to meet with him about tariffs.
Many are wondering how somebody like this man could even be eligible to visit the White House with his record and who certainly has no business living there on your tax dollar and mine.
(Dr.
The freedom to learn is the freedom to live
“The freedom to learn is the freedom to live. We cannot survive our current political moment or unlock the promise of our future without the tools to understand and make sense of our past. And that’s precisely why those opposing democracy and equality are trying to take away our books, our concepts, and our knowledge. Ignorance about our past is the Achilles heel of democracy. And we can’t save this democracy without confronting its weakest link. That’s why we have to fight for the freedom to learn.”—Kimberlee Crenshaw
When the deadly COVID-19 pandemic began sweeping across the United States in 2020, President Donald Trump infamously made the mind-boggling assertion, “If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”
As the legacy of racism, segregation, and discrimination continues to drive gaps in opportunity, achievement, and justice under the law, the Trump administration remains committed to solving problems it doesn’t want to confront by pretending they don’t exist.
The administration’s frenzied assault on American history, outlined in the Orwellian executive order, Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” is a key tactic in its broad agenda to erode democracy, entrench inequities, and reinforce injustice,
Thousands of Black people did not just disappear from Pittsburgh. Thousands of Black people did not just decide to up and leave Pittsburgh for no reason. They were pushed out. They were priced out. They were forced out.
To Be Equal
As part of the Freedom to Learn coalition, the National Urban League is sounding the alarm that the attempted mass erasure of Black history and culture is a key pre-condition for our ongoing anti-democratic slide. Sunday marks the beginning of the #HandsOffOurHistory / Freedom To Learn National Week of Action, a mass mobilization in opposition to the extremist campaign to suppress history and wipe out decades of anti-racist, pro-equality progress.
On Wednesday, which marks the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, I will take part in a virtual event, Beyond The First 100 Days: Centering Racial Justice and Black History in Our Fight for Democracy. In partnership with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the conversation will provide an assessment of what the first 100 days has meant for the fight for racial justice, the preservation of Black history and the defense of a multiracial democracy. I will be joined by
Kimberlé Crenshaw, Co-Founder and President of the African American Policy Forum; Kaye Wise Whitehead, founding director of The Karson Institute for Race, Peace, and Social Justice; Shavon Arline-Bradley, President and CEO of the Nation Council of Negro Women; Barbara Arnwine, resident and founder of Transformative Justice Coalition; and Melanie Campbell, President and CEO, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and Convener of the Black Women’s Roundtable. The week of action culminates Saturday, May 3 in Washington, D.C. with a demonstration in defense of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. All Americans can join the demonstration by visiting their local museums and libraries, seeking out exhibitions and collections that recognize the contributions of Black Americans and sharing photos of their experiences on social media with the hashtag #HandsOffOurHistory. Supporters also can sign the Black History Is American History Affirmation. Now is the time to show the public that we must stand up for civil rights, for the accurate accounting of history, for our books, our voices and our lives.
This is the true legacy of the political establishment and developer class of Pittsburgh. There is absolutely nothing wrong with calling it out and demanding a different plan for the City of Pittsburgh. There is absolutely nothing wrong or hateful with talking about how capitalism rewards the hoarding of wealth which has resulted in the mass expulsion of Black people from Pittsburgh’s city limits. If developers are unhappy with being held accountable for their harm, then they should change their practices as a developer and investor in Pittsburgh. But they have not. Actually, if developers are uncomfortable about the loudness of how impacted people are talking about their practices doing harm to Black people, then they should not have done them in the first place. In the second place, the developer class should invest in innovative ways to build and house communities. In 2025, there is no reason developers should be fighting making affordable housing for the whole entire city. There is no reason why
working-class people should not be included in the architecture and design of a livable city of the future for Pittsburgh. Intentionally choosing to build developments outside of the price range for the average and median Black renter is a direct tell of developers wanting to eradicate Black people from living in the city. Black people have every right to tell their story. From Penn Plaza to Bedford Dwellings to Mon View Heights, Black people in Allegheny County have a right to share their pain and name the developers who have harmed them.
(Miracle Jones is
E. Faye Williams, President of The Dick Gregory Society.)
Marc H. Morial
Shedeur Sanders’ NFL
Draft slide wasn’t about football. It was personal.
Shedeur Sanders’ inexplicable slide in the 2025 NFL Draft had nothing to do with what he did on the field. This was personal. What happened to Shedeur—being picked much later than projected—looked, smelled, and felt like a message: that this brash, Black, privileged quarterback had to be put in his place.
More than that, it seemed the league made an example out of him and everything he represents: the new-age college athlete, already famous and well-compensated through name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals, who wouldn’t play by their rules.
“Conform or suffer the consequences.” That ultimatum echoes beyond football. It makes me think about people from every walk of life who get punished for what they represent, not for how well they do the job. It’s a dull agony, knowing that in this political moment, being Black, excellent, knowledgeable and confident still invites resentment—and punishment.
That’s what it felt like, watching team after team pass on Shedeur, a player many draft analysts regarded as the most NFLready quarterback.
Despite everything he achieved on the field—and staying out of trouble off it— they made an example of him for reasons that had nothing to do with football. Meanwhile, athletes who’ve done far worse got treated with more grace.
Because it felt so familiar—that same old song where Black excellence meets White resentment—I couldn’t help but think about what it means to walk into majority-White workplaces knowing that your evaluation is never just about what you do.
“It’s about how you look and what you symbolize.”
And no prospective NFL athlete in recent memory had the pedigree or accomplishments Shedeur Sanders brought with him. As the son of NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, he bore the weight of fame but carved out his own success.
While most top high school recruits chase “blueblood” programs like Alabama, Ohio State and Georgia, Shedeur chose Jackson State, an HBCU, playing for his father. He went 23-3 there, won the Deacon Jones Award as the top HBCU player, then followed his father to Colorado.
In his final season, he helped Colorado go 9-4—after the program had gone 1-11 the year before he, Deion Sanders, and Travis Hunter arrived. He also won the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, given to the nation’s top upperclassman quarterback.
“Turning around one program is hard. He did it twice.”
And in an era where top college athletes can earn millions through NIL deals, Sanders stood among the wealthiest, with an estimated $6.5 million valuation. His college earnings will outpace what he makes on his rookie contract with the Cleveland Browns. Was it the wealth that made him slide? Or was it the story he told just by being himself?
In a league built on players rising from hardship, Shedeur’s background — privileged, two involved parents, visible success —cut against the usual draft-day narratives.
On NFL Draft broadcasts, we always hear about humble beginnings. Talent plus hardship plus the benevolence of a team equals the American dream.
But Shedeur, with his diamond jewelry, backwards cap, and brash confidence, didn’t fit that script.
During the pre-draft process, where prospects are expected to showcase humility— to play the game—Shedeur didn’t. He skipped workouts at the NFL Combine, East-West Shrine Bowl, and Big 12 Showcase. Then came the anonymous whispers: He didn’t interview well. He seemed entitled. Disinterested.
When they can’t understand you, they slander you. That same old song. ***
Shedeur Sanders isn’t the first quarterback to buck the system.
Johnny Manziel—a brash, White former quarterback—had his own run-ins. He flashed the money sign after touchdowns. He reportedly broke NCAA rules by getting paid for autographs.
During his pre-draft process, he got into trouble at a charity golf event. According to his former agent, Manziel took his shirt off, appeared intoxicated, and broke clubs over his knee before throwing them into a pond. That hurt his stock. Instead of going No. 1 overall in 2014, the Browns picked Manziel at No. 22.
Manziel still went in the first round. They—the NFL—let Shedeur Sanders fall to the fifth round—144th overall—before selecting him.
The message rang out loud and clear. Do as we say, or else. And somewhere in the middle of it all, I heard my father’s voice, the same words he told a boy who liked running to the beat of his own drum: You can’t do what they do.
Message received.
(Tacuma Roeback is managing editor of the Chicago Defender.)
Progress 2025—a conspiracy theory
President Donald Trump declared in March that the pardons issued by former President Joe Biden were void because they were done by autopen.
Legal experts replied that the law does not prohibit automated signatures. Trump’s detractors argued that the president was using the autopen signatures to demonstrate Biden’s cognitive impairment and that “Biden’s team” covered up Biden’s inability to do the job.
The autopen is not proof of a cover-up, but when Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential election following a disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump, it was clear to the public that Biden’s mental abilities had deteriorated. If Biden’s health was so poor, why did “Biden’s team” encourage him to run for reelection?
CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios correspondent Alex Thompson attempted to answer that question in their new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Cover-up, and Tragic Decision to Run Again, which will be released to the public on May 20, 2025.
The book describes how Biden’s White House staff emphasized the president’s good health while making every attempt to hide his diminishing mental competence from the public. According to the book, Biden’s cognitive abilities had been deteriorating for years, and at the age of 81, he was in no condition to run for reelection. However, “Biden’s team” let their fear of another Trump presidency galvanize them to orchestrate the decade’s biggest scandal by attempting to force a deteriorated old man to serve another presidential term.
Tapper and Thompson’s premise is wrong.
“Biden’s team” did not fear another term under Trump. They were afraid of losing their shadow control over the executive branch. Tapper and Thompson failed to discover that “Biden’s team” mapped out a 12-year plan from the start: one term for Biden, followed by two terms for Kamala Harris.
“Biden’s team” was well aware of Biden’s cognitive impairment before he entered the presidential race.
During the 2020 Democratic primary, most public opinion polls indicated that the Democratic frontrunners were too progressive to beat Donald Trump. Although “Biden’s team” was
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more progressive than the Democratic frontrunners, they recruited Biden and touted him as a “moderate” capable of uniting a divided nation.
“Biden’s team” chose Kamala Harris as his running mate so that she could prepare to run for president following Biden’s single term.
After the 2022 midterm elections, “Biden’s team” discovered they had a Kamala Harris problem.
Harris was not proficient in international relations and economics. She was ineffective at every assignment assigned to her by the president, and she had poor approval ratings.
“Biden’s team” had no confidence in Vice President Harris. They feared that Harris would lose the Democratic presidential primary, bringing their 12-year plan to an end after just four years.
“Biden’s team” had to devise a way for Harris to bypass the primary process but still be the Democratic presidential nominee.
Since no politician with serious presidential aspirations would dare challenge a sitting president in a primary election, Biden would win the primary virtually unopposed. So “Biden’s team” encouraged Biden to run but planned for him to drop out of the race due to health issues just before the official nomination process. That would leave the Democratic Party with no alternative but to allow Vice President Harris to replace Biden and become the next Democratic nominee for president.
Once that occurred, Biden served one term as planned, and if Harris had been elected president, “Biden’s team” would have retained control of the executive branch for another four years. The real scandal was not that “Biden’s team” concealed Biden’s declining health while he was in office, as Tapper and Thompson claimed; it was that Biden was recruited to run for president because of his mental deficiencies, and Biden’s progressive
team made all executive decisions for him from the first day of his presidency. When President Trump’s statement about Biden’s autopen signatures made national headlines, journalists, who had always felt Biden was mentally unfit, wondered if Biden even knew what was being signed in his name and began to question who was truly making decisions in the Oval Office. Journalists named the people they thought made up the “Biden team.” Each list mentioned a different person, but Ron Klain, Biden’s chief of staff, appeared on all of them. Ron Klain previously served on the board of the Center for American Progress (CAP). CAP is a left-wing think tank founded in 2003 to counter the conservative Heritage Foundation. CAP leaders have declared that their goal is “not just to change the conversation, but to change the country.”
“Biden’s team” were former members of CAP, and when an inept Biden won the White House, CAP attempted to change the country by putting their members in positions throughout the Biden administration.
Business Insider reported in August 2021 that, “At least 66 alumni of the Center for American Progress have been nominated or are already working inside the White House and in agencies across the federal government … They’re not just any government jobs, either: CAP alumni fill some of the most important positions in Washington. Among them are the secretary of Veterans Affairs under President Joe Biden, the top White House economic policy advisor, and the chief of staff at the Pentagon. Former CAP President and CEO Neera Tanden is now on Team Biden; she joined the White House as a senior advisor earlier this year after her nomination to lead the Office of Management and Budget faltered in the face of opposition from Senate Republicans.”
Are these events coincidental or evidence of a CAP conspiracy?
(Postscript: a few weeks ago, on Angela Rye, Tiffany Cross, and Andrew Gillum’s Native Land Podcast, a listener asked the hosts whether the Democrats had anything similar to the Heritage Foundation to assist in policy formation. The hosts agreed that the Democratic think tank was CAP, but that’s not the point. The point is the listener was aware of the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 but had no idea CAP existed.)
Pope Francis was a humble man of the people and an advocate for Black America
(TriceEdneyWire.com)— His Holiness Pope Francis made his transition on the morning of after Easter Sunday, after he delivered an Easter blessing from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, and after he toured St. Peter’s Square in his popemobile. His doctors had advised him to take two months of convalescence, but this pope, this man of the people, wanted to be with them until the very end. He was of the people, and he wanted to reach them, touch them. Now he is gone.
The world will miss this humble Pope, a man who eschewed pomp and pageantry, instead embracing piety and populism.
As a cardinal in Argentina, he rode the subway rather than a limo. As Pope, he opted for more modest accommodations than the papal palace and dined with Vatican employees. He used the word “gay”—no other Pope had—and insisted that homosexual brothers and sisters had a place in the church, and in heaven. He did not go so far as to embrace gay marriage, but his modest step in the right direction caused resistance among other church leaders.
This pope was an advocate for social and economic justice, frequently addressing the economic gap between developed nations and those still developing. He embraced the concept of climate justice, releasing an encyclical on climate change, He wrote. “Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years.” The encyclical (papal letter) was issued in 2015 and called for urgent action to combat climate change, protect the environment, and promote sustainable development. Leaders, said the Pope, must hear “both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor”. Pope Francis was a spokesperson for the least and the left out, visiting
prisons wherever he went, and washing the feet of prisoners to emphasize mutual humanity. He was an advocate for immigrants, stating in 2024 that those who knowingly and intentionally harm immigrants are creating a “grave sin”. He called for a “global governance based on justice, fraternity and solidarity”.
While countries around the world, the United States among them, are closing border and instituting harsh measures against migrants, Pope Francis advocated for their rights.
Pope Francis was also a strong proponent of DEI. He appointed 163 cardinals since he assumed his papacy in 2013, diversifying the College of Cardinals by including members from countries that had never been represented, including cardinals from Mongolia, South Sudan, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania and Cote d’Ivoire. This diverse set of cardinals will choose the next Pope. Will they embrace the Pope Francis approach to inclusion, advocacy, and equity, or will they revert to the narrow white approach to the papacy, with the majority of leaders being European?
African Americans have a distinct, if not large, presence in the Catholic church.
Just six percent of us are Catholic. But the Catholic church has had an impact on Black Americans, especially in its role in education. Often Catholic schools were not as harshly segregated as public schools, and in some case schools that
focused on Black students were much better equipped than other schools For example, my mom, Proteone Marie Alexandria Malveaux attended Our Mother of Sorrows High School in Biloxi, Mississippi. The school was administered by the Josephite Fathers, a religious order dedicated to serving African American Catholics. The nuns who staffed the school were the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, an order dedicated to serving Native American and African American communities. Partly because of her experience at Our Mother of Sorrows, Mom was a devout Catholic. She was impatient with my criticism of the Catholic Church as colonizing oppressors, encouraging me, to “find the good” in the church, despite its many flaws.
Pope Francis was radically different from the colonizing popes who encouraged European powers to “civilize” Africans. In many instances, instead, Pope Francis has denounced racism and discrimination, and expressed solidarity with the murdered George Floyd, the slaughtered congregants at Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina, and many others. In many ways, President Francis was an anti-Trump, embracing immigration, climate change, DEI, and economic justice. In making a decision, the Cardinals will decide whether to move forward with a dynamic Pope Francisc agenda, or whether they will move backwards to the exclusionary values of the past.
Black America had an advocate in Pope Francis. Will we have another in the next Pope.
(Dr. Julianne Malveaux is a DC based economist and author. She may be reached at juliannemalveaux.com)
The President’s budget, the people and the Congress
by Dr. John E. Warren
Now that President Trump has used his control of the House and the Senate to get his budget cuts, which will take life threatening funds from the American people to give tax cuts to his wealthy friends, it is time to stop talking about the cuts and work to restore the losses. To this end, three things must be done to save Healthcare, Social Security and any essential programs illegally cut or reduced by the Administration’s action.
First, for every specific program cut, there must be legislation introduced in the House of Representatives to restore those dollars. It will take time to draft the number of legislative measures involved, but it can be done. Each Bill, when referred to the appropriate Committee, which in this
case will be the House Ways and Means Committee, should immediately become the subject of a Discharge Petition with all 213 Democratic Members signing - and hopefully at least 5 Republicans, which would force the measure to the House Floor for a vote. Mike Johnson as Speaker can not block a Discharge Petition, unless there has been some recent change under the House Rules. Second, the American people, engaging in weekly rallies across this Nation in hundreds of thousands, should begin to read the names each week of each Republican Member of Congress who either refuses to sign the Petitions, remains silent and votes against the measures in spite of their expressed concern for the impact of the cuts on their Districts.
The third and final action is for the hundreds of thousands of protesters demonstrating each week, to organize within their Congressional Districts, campaign to replace and or Recall those members who remain silent on the restoration votes and take actions to reverse the many Trump Executive Orders, which the Congress has the power to do. All future speeches should only be to provide facts for the proposed actions against members of the House and Senate who have failed to remember their Oath of Office: “To Uphold and Protect The Constitution of the United States, So Help Me. God.” (Dr. John E. Warren is Publisher, San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Newspaper)
Julianne Malveaux Commentary
Tacuma Roeback Commentary
ANNOUNCEMENTS Public Notice
ANNOUNCEMENTS Public Notice
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. 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, MAY 5, 2025 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, MAY 6, 2025, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 8:30AM AND 2:30PM IN THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE. Failure to pay the 10% deposit will have you banned from future Sheriff Sales. And the balance in CASH, CERTIFIED CHECK, OR CASHIERS CHECK, on or before MONDAY, MAY 12, 2025, 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 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 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.
NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT ALL SHERIFFS DEEDS TENDERED TO
PURCHASERS WILL CONTAIN THE FOLLOWING:
NOTICE: The undersigned, as evidenced by the signature(s) to this notice and the acceptance and recording of this deed, (is/are) fully cognizant of the fact that the undersigned may not be obtaining the right of protection against subsidence, as to the property herein conveyed, resulting from coal mining operations and that the purchased property, herein conveyed, may be protected from damage due to mine subsidence by a private contract with the owners of the economic interest in the coal. This notice is inserted herein to comply with the Bituminous Mine Subsidence and Land Conservation Act of 1966. as amended 1980. Oct. 10, P.L 874, No. 156 §1.
“This document may not sell, convey, transfer, include, or insure the title to the coal and right of support underneath the surface land described or referred to herein and the owner or owners of such coal may have the complete legal right to remove all of such coal, and in that connection damage may result to the surface of the land, any house, building or other structure on or in such land.”
21APR25
JASON R. KREUTZER ********************
NO. MG-24-000775 DEBT $52,339.04 NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) KML LAW GROUP, P.C. ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) SUITE
COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 29TH WARD CITY OF PITTSBURGH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1608 WESTMONT AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15210. DEED BOOK 17205, PAGE 241. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 60-G-94.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS Public Notice
2MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) JOYCE ANN TINNEY
CASE NO. MG-24-000721
************* DEBT
$24,990.90 *************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
Jill M. Fein, Esquire/ Hill Wallack LLP
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)
1000 Floral Vale Boulevard, Suite 300, Yardley, PA 19067
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 579-7700
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Scott
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A TWO STORY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 526 MAGAZINE ST, CARNEGIE, PA 15106 DEED BOOK VOLUME 4650, PAGE 173. BLOCK& LOT NO. 102-J-126.
3MAY25
DEFENDANT(S)
MAJESTIC LANE DEVELOPMENT LLC
CASE NO. GD-22-006941
************* DEBT $123,565.67
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
JOSHUA G. STEPHAN, DAVID M.
BELCZYK, CHRISTOPHER J. BARONZZI
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) PORTER WRIGHT MORRIS & ARTHUR
LLP SIX PPG PLACE, THIRD FLOOR, PITTSBURGH PA 15222
*************
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 235-1480
SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF JEFFERSON HILLS: HAVING ERECTED THEREON VACANT
AGRICULTIJRAL LAND BEING KNOWN AS AND BEING NUMBERED COUNCIL PLACE, CLAIRTON, PA 15025, AS RECORDED IN PLAN BOOK VOLUME 306, PAGE 120, BEING A PORTION OF THE LANDS RECORDED IN DEED BOOK VOLUME 16731, PAGE 106 AND DEED BOOK VOLUME 12250, PAGE 206, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0881-A-00250-0000-00.
5MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) VIVECA R. JONES CASE NO. MG-19-000066 ************* DEBT $261,603.36 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
CHELSEA A. NIXON, ESQUIRE
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 216 HADDON AVENUE, SUITE 201 WESTMONT, NJ 08108
************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (856) 858-7080 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, TOWNSHIP OF HARRISON: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 220 CHINKAPIN DRIVE, NATRONA HEIGHTS, PENNSYLVANIA 15065. DEED BOOK VOLUME 16305, PAGE 543. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1846-S-000230000-00.
6MAY25
DEFENDANT(S)
Gregory Morris
CASE NO. MG-24-000079
************* DEBT $121,880.38
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
The Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 1310 industrial Boulevard, 1• Floor, Suite 101, Southampton, PA 18966
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 215-942-9690
SHORT DESCRIPTION: lo the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 15th Ward, City of Pittsburgh: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 774 MONTCLAIR STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15217. DEED BOOK VOLUME 10776, PAGE 649. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER. 88-E-64.
7MAY25
DEFENDANT(S)
Cherry Kay Bierer
********************
CASE NO. MG-24-000690
************* DEBT $77,612.92
1MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) UNKNOWN HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS, AND ALL PERSONS, FIRMS, OR ASSOCIATIONS CLAIMING RIGHT, TITLE, OR INTEREST FROM OR UNDER RAMON BOWIE, DECEASED ******************** CASE NO. MG-24-000817 ************* DEBT $164,964.83
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Jill M. Fein, Esquire/ Hill Wallack LLP
************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 1000 Floral Vale Boulevard, Suite 300, Yardley, PA 19067
************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 579-7700
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of McKeesport HAVING ERECTED THEREON A TWO STORY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1019
FRANKLIN ST., MCKEESPORT, PA 15132 DEED BOOK VOLUME 18866, PAGE 293,
BLOCK & LOT NO. 461-B- 218
9
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
The Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC
************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 1310 industrial Boulevard, 1• Floor, Suite 101, Southampton, PA 18966
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 215-942-9690
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Brentwood: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A TWO-STORY BRICK AND ALUMINUM DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 3512 DAUPHIN STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15227. DEED BOOK VOLUME 5753, PAGE 593. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER. 188-A-37.
8MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) PATRICK J. MULLIGAN
******************** CASE NO. MG-24-000540 ************* DEBT $159,954.43
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) KML LAW GROUP, P.C. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 COLLIER: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 100 SCOTT WAY, CARNEGIE, PA 15106. DEED BOOK 14282, PAGE 81. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 147-F-34.
9MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) LACY FRANKLIN RICHARDSON, REGINA LOUISE RICHARDSON
CASE NO. MG-24-000943 ************* DEBT $120,575.93 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) KML LAW GROUP, P.C. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET Philadelphia, PA 19106
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 627-1322
SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 7TH WARD CITY OF MCKEESPORT: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1501 LIBRARY AVENUE, MC KEESPORT, PA 15132. DEED BOOK 8570, PAGE 22. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 382-C-l96.
10MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) JOHN W. PUTZ JUNIOR AKA JOHN W. PUTZ, JR. ******************** CASE NO. MG-24-000355 DEBT $167,654.75
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) KML LAW GROUP, P.C.
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 WEST DEER: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 260 SHAGBARK DRIVE, CHESWICK, PA 15024. DEED BOOK 10670, PAGE 256. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1360-H-128.
11MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) JAMES R. JOHNS, DAVID K. ZEILER
******************** CASE NO. MG-24-000912
************* DEBT $27,497.47
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) KML LAW GROUP, P.C.
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET Philadelphia, PA 19106
************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 627-1322 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 16TH WARD CTIY OF PTITSBURGH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2311 ECCLES STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15210. DEED BOOK 17475, PAGE 393. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 13-L-6.
12MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) RICHARD S. TEXTER AND KRISTA L. TEXTER CASE NO. MG-24-000828 DEBT $184,748.57 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Jill M. Fein, Esquire I Hill Wallack LLP
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 1000 Floral Vale Boulevard,
and Lot Number 0221-D-003 I00000-00
15MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) RENE C. MORENO; KIMBERLY G. MORENO aka KIMBERLEY G. MORENO CASE NO.MG-19-000064 DEBT $596,470.37 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Jeff Calcagno, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 Penosylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF MUNHALL Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 425 EAST 11TH AVENUE, HOMESTEAD, PA 15120. Deed Book Volume 19019, Page 85. Block and Lot Number 0130-L-001210000-02
16MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) Penn Hills School District and Municipality of Penn Hills VS. DEFENDANT(S) JEANA LASHAWN EMERICK ******************** CASE NO.GD 23-009536 DEBT $23,087.63
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Jennifer L. Cerce,
HILLS, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY,
OF PENNSYLVANIA. HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELL-
KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 571
ROAD, VERONA, PA 15147. DESCRIBED AT BOOK 11265, PAGE 269, INSTRUMENT NO. 2002-113521, PARCEL NUMBER BLOCK, LOT 229-R-119.
20MAY25 DEFENDANT(S) Byron O. Knight,
24MAY25
Walter S. Opiela, Jr.
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Stephen M. Hladik, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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, TOWNSHIP OF MARSHALL:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 5184 WEXFORD RUN ROAD, WEXFORD, PA 15090. DEED BOOK VOLUME 10480, PAGE 161. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1822-M-2.
25MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) CHARLES E. VAUGHN JR ******************** CASE NO.MG-23-000685
DEBT $130,905.54
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
CHELSEA A. NIXON, ESQUIRE
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 216 HADDON AVENUE, SUITE 201 WESTMONT, NJ 08108
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (856) 858-7080
SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, MU-
NICIPALITY OF PENN HILLS:
PARCEL 1: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 11697 ALTHEA ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15235 aka 11697 ALTHEA DRIVE, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15235. DEED BOOK VOLUME 13797, PAGE 518. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0449-E-00079-0000-00. PARCEL 2: VACANT LAND BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 11693 ALTHEA ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15235 DEED BOOK VOLUME 13797, PAGE 518. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0449-E-000840000-00.
26MAY25
DEFENDANT(S)
KASSANDRA A. MONTEDORO ******************** CASE NO.MG-24-000878 ************* DEBT $133,848.55
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
CHELSEA A. NIXON, ESQUIRE
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)
MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 216 HADDON AVENUE, SUITE 201 WESTMONT, NJ 08108
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (856) 858-7080
SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEAL TH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, TOWNSHIP OF NORTH VERSAILLES: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 651 OVERHILL DRIVE, NORTH VERSAILLES, PENNSYLVANIA 15137. DEED BOOK VOLUME 15862, PAGE 378. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0459-A-00067-000000.
27MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) MICHAEL F MCNAMARA AND DEBORAH MCNAMARA
CASE NO.GD-24-003653
************* DEBT $105,406.65
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Robert E. Smithson, Jr., Esq. / Court ID No. 329691
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 7660 Imperial Way, Suite 121, Allentown, Pennsylvania 18195
*************
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (610) 395-3535 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 27th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh:
Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 3207 CENTRAL AVENUE, PI1TSBURGH, PA 15212. Deed Book Volume 11005, Page 257. Block and Lot Number 76-K-102.
28MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) Ramon H. Waldon
CASE NO.GD-24-007367 ************* DEBT $5,630.03
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Fred C. Jug, Jr. *************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 310 Grant Street, Suite 1109, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-255-6500
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh, 25th Ward:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A PERRY POINT PLAN DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 749 CHAUTAUQUA COURT, PITTSBURGH, PA 15214. DEED BOOK 18332, PAGE 506. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 045-S-03900-1.
29MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) JOSEPH C. DORNETTO ******************** CASE NO. AR-24-004832 ************* DEBT $8,393.00
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Fred C. Jug, Jr. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 310 Grant Street, Suite 1109, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-255-6500
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Richland Township:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A BEECH STREET AT RICHLAND HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 401 BEECH STREET, GIBSONIA, PA 15044. DEED BOOK 17561, PAGE 259. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1665-F-00333-0000-00.
SONNY BOY
30MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) Cromwell Properties LLC
CASE NO. GD-24-012000
DEBT $709,610.45
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
J. Michael McCague, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 408 Cedar Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-803-3690
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh (12th Ward): PARCEL1 HAVING ERECTED THEREON A COM-
MERCIAL GARAGE BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 617-623 N. DALLAS AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15208. DEED BOOK VOLUME 19230, PAGE 457, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 125-L-54. PARCEL2 HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 6832 KELLY STREET PITTSBURGH, PA 15208. DEED BOOK VOLUME 19230, PAGE 457, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 125-L-55.
31MAY25
DEFENDANT(S)
Brian D. Dietrich
CASE NO. MG-23-000486
DEBT $111,970.61
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Powers Kirn, LLC
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) Eight Neshaminy lnterplex, Suite 215, Trevose, PA 19053
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 215-942-2090
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Ingram: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 227 Scotia Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15205. Deed Book Volume 16378, Page 35, Instrument Number 20I 6-13071, Block and Lot Number 4 I-J-236.
32MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) MCKEESPORT AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT AND BOROUGH OF WHITE OAK VS. DEFENDANT(S) PATTI S. YOBST ******************** CASE NO. GD-24-007722 ************* DEBT $12,619.75
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
CHRISTOPHER E. VINCENT *************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)
546 WENDEL ROAD, IWRIN, PA 15642
************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (724) 978-0333 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF WHITE OAK:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1715 CALIFORNIA AVENUE, MCKEESPORT, PA 15131. DEED BOOK 14388, PAGE 423. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 551-8-179.
33MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) DUQUESNE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT VS. DEFENDANT(S) JOSEPH J. MINIAGIO AND SANDRA WILCZEK
********************
CASE NO. GD-23-009479 ************* DEBT $8,856.07
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
CHRISTOPHER E. VINCENT
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 546 WENDEL ROAD, IWRIN, PA 15642
************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (724) 978-0333 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, CITY OF DUQUESNE:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON.A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 35 CLEARVIEW AVENUE, DUQUESNE, PA 15110. DEED BOOK 7953, PAGE 65. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 304-L-250.
34MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) DEER LAKES SCHOOL DISTRICT AND TOWNSHIP OF EAST DEER VS. DEFENDANT(S) JADE INVESTMENT VENTURES, L.P., A PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
******************** CASE NO. GD-22-009214
DEBT $43,548.58
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (724) 978-0333
CREIGHTON, PA 15030. DEED BOOK 13144, PAGE 300. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 841-K-212.
35MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) MCKEESPORT AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT AND CITY OF MCKEESPORT VS. DEFENDANT(S) EUGENE KOWALSKI AND DONALD KOWALSKI, HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF STEL-
NO. GD-24-005588 ************* DEBT $23,871.56 NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) CHRISTOPHER E. VINCENT ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 546 WENDEL ROAD, IWRIN, PA 15642 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (724) 978-0333 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, CITY OF MCKEESPORT: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1507 CARNEGIE AVENUE, MCKEESPORT, PA 15132. DEED BOOK 12273, PAGE 47. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 307-R-244.
37MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) UPPER ST. CLAIR SCHOOL DISTRICT VS. DEFENDANT(S) JENNIFER LUKONDI & MICHAEL A. FISCHER CASE NO. GD-23-011864
DEBT $10,946.61
************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire
************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 445 Fort Pitt Boulevard, Suite 503, Pittsburgh, PA I 5219
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 4!2-391-0160 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWNSHIP OF UPPER ST. CLAIR: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 535 UPPER ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15228. DEED BOOK 18178, PAGE403. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 252-E-267.
38MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) UPPER ST. CLAIR SCHOOL DISTRJCT VS. DEFENDANT(S) EUGENE F. HLAVAC ******************** CASE NO. GD-24-001221
DEBT $7,981.14
************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 445 Fort Pitt Boulevard, Suite 503, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 4I2-391-0160 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWNSHIP OF UPPER ST. CLAIR: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 126 JOHNSTON ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15241. DEED BOOK I8075, PAGE 434. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 570-S-4.
39MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) H.E.M. Holdings LLC VS. DEFENDANT(S) Patrick M. Norris
CASE NO. GD-24-011526
************* DEBT $484,368.27
************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Keri P. Ebeck
************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 601 Grant Street, 9’” Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-456-8100
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, County of Allegheny, Township of Robinson: HAVING THEREON A COMMERCIAL BUILDING BEING KNOW AND NUMBERED AS 173 OLD BEAVER GRADE ROAD, CORAOPOLIS , PA 15108 DEED BOOK VOLUME 287, PAGE 175, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 337-L-99.
41MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) MARGARET ANN MANNION AKA MARGARET A. MANNION
******************** CASE NO. MG-18-000394
************* DEBT $34,229.20
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Robert E. Smithson, Jr., Esq. I Court I.D. No. 329691 ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 7660 Imperial Way, Suite 121,Allentown, Pennsylvania 18195
ATTORNEY
45MAY25
55MAY25
Kathi Ann Sanford
CASE NO. GD 19-016981
DEBT: $6,257.26
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 McKeesportWard 3: Parcel #1: Having erected thereon a two story frame house known as 1038 Peebles Lane, McKeesport, PA 15132. Deed Book Volume 17280, Page 330. Block & Lot 382A-366. Parcel #2: Being thereon vacant residential land known as 11• Street, McKeesport, PA 15132. Deed Book Volume 17280, Page 314. Block & Lot 382-A368. Parcel #3: Being thereon vacant residential land known as Peebles Lane, McKeesport, PA 15132. Deed Book Volume 17280, Page 322. Block & Lot 382-A-365.
56MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S) Charles Morgan IV ******************** CASE NO. GD 20-000998
DEBT: $4,263.82
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 McKeesportWard 7: Having erected thereon a two-story stucco house being known as 1501 Beech Street, McKeesport, PA 15132. Deed Book Volume 16771, Page 6. Block & Lot No. 382-D-353.
57MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S) Todd A. Wargo ******************** CASE NO. GD 19-000115 ************* DEBT:$4,611.71
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 Jefferson Hills: Having erected thereon a one-story brick house being known as 1305 Walnut Street, Clairton, PA 15025. Deed Book Volume 14121, Page 471. Block & Lot No. 1274-R-57.
58MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S) Roger Lynn & Tammy Ann Jones
CASE NO. G.D. 23-007038 ************* DEBT: $4,196.44 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 Glassport: Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 624 Vermont Avenue, Glassport, PA 15045. Deed Book Volume 16602, Page 109. Block & Lot No. 558-C-261.
59MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): Pine-Richland School District VS.
DEFENDANT(S): Timothy J. Giltinan, Trustee of the Maloney Family Irrevocable Trust, dated June 12, 2012
CASE NO. GD 23-003238 ************* DEBT: $10,714.58 *************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 Pine: Having erected thereon a one-story brick house being known as 190 Killarney Road, Wexford, PA 15090. Deed Book Volume 14929, Page 352, Block & Lot No. 1499-K-26.
60MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): Pine-Richland School District VS. DEFENDANT(S): Venusian Management Group 1 LP
********************
CASE NO. GD 23-014042
DEBT: $1,856.43
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 McKeesportWard 12: Having erected thereon a one-story frame house being known as 421 Lemon Avenue, McKeesport, PA 15132. Deed Book Volume 16726, Page 26. Block & Lot No. 555-D-43.
61MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS.
DEFENDANT(S): Donald P. Paul, with Notice to Heirs and Assigns
CASE NO. GD 18-017204
DEBT: $3,595.89
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)
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, Town of McCandless: Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 9408 Highland Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15237. Deed Book Volume 7213, Page 619. Block & Lot No. 824-G-40.
62MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS.
DEFENDANT(S): Eric D. Ovitsky
********************
CASE NO. GD 24-006874
*************
DEBT: $4,769.81
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)
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 Whitehall: Having erected thereon a one-story stone house being known as 3814 Provost Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15227. Deed Book Volume 11636,Page 206. Block & Lot No. 248-B-104
63MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS.
DEFENDANT(S): Walter C. Frydrych Jr.
********************
CASE NO. GD 23-004181
************* DEBT: $3,255.56
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)
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:
Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 1071 Messineo Avenue, East McKeesport, PA 15035. Deed Book Volume 13978, Page 399. Block & Lot No. 547-B-56.
64MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S): Michael J. Benedetto & Katherine K. Benedetto
CASE NO.: GD 23-014164
*************
DEBT: $3,680.70
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)
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 McKeesportWard 6: Having erected thereon a two story frame house, known as 905 Evans Avenue, McKeesport, PA 15132. Deed Book Volume 14209, Page 343. Block & Lot No. 380-N-88.
65MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S): Debra Lengle
CASE NO.: GD 23-007029
DEBT: $4,866.17
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 Harmar: Parcel #1: Having erected thereon a one-story brick house being known as 544 Hite Road, Cheswick, PA 15024. Deed Book Volume 14534, Page 191. Block & Lot No. 625-E-171. Parcel #2: Having thereon vacant residential land being known as Hite Road, Cheswick,
66MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): Woodland Hills School District VS. DEFENDANT(S): Watts Memorial Chapel, Inc.
CASE NO.: GD 23-011761
DEBT: $2,976.24
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 Braddock: Having erected thereon a three story funeral home being known as 808 Talbot Avenue, Braddock, PA 15104. Deed Book Volume 9588, Page 174. Block & Lot No. 237-H-227.
67MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): North Hills School District VS.
DEFENDANT(S): Christine A. Grady & Jean B. Grady
******************** CASE NO.: GD 23-011627
DEBT: $2,277.63
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 West View: Having erected thereon a two-story brick house being known as 217 Lakewood Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15229. Deed Book Volume 18209, Page 186, Block & Lot 279C-330.
68MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): Woodland Hills School District VS. DEFENDANT(S): Loretta Marie Edwards ******************** CASE NO.: GD 23-008189 ************* DEBT: $10,058.11
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 Swissvale: Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 7343 Burton Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15218. Deed Book Volume 6457, Page 114. Block & Lot No. 178-L-142.
69MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S): Jason B. Demis, Executor of the Estate of Joanne L. Drost, Deceased ******************** CASE NO.: GD 23-004159 *************
DEBT: $2,339.79
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 Dravosburg:
Having erected thereon a one-story frame house being known as 121 Duquesne Avenue, Dravosburg, PA 15034. Deed Book Volume 13884, Page 64. Block & Lot No. 309-C-34.
70MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S): Sandra Lipinski
CASE NO.: GD 24-008523
DEBT: $3,118.47
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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, Municipality of Penn Hills:
Having erected thereon a two-story masonry frame house being known as 109 Orchard Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15235. Deed Book Volume 18180, Page 348. Block & Lot No. 449-D-202.
71MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S): Franklin A. Taddeo & Janet E. Taddeo and The United States of America
******************** CASE NO.: G.D. 10-006486
DEBT: $14,411.57
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 Glassport: Being thereon vacant commercial land being known as Monongahela Avenue, Glassport, PA 15045. Deed Book Volume 7006, Page 261. Block & Lot No. 467-P-51.
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S): CBALJL, Inc.
72MAY25
136, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 211-F-8.
77MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S): CANDYCE L. MILLER & EUGENE C. MILLER ******************** CASE
82MAY25 DEFENDANT(S): Isaac Skipworth
NO.: MG-23-000405 ************* DEBT: $76,922.34 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) LOGS Legal Group LLP
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 985 Old Eagle School Road, Suite 514 Wayne, PA 19087
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (610) 278-6800
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF GLASSPORT:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 702 NORTH MONONGAHELA AVENUE, GLASSPORT, PA 15045. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18105, PAGE 523, BLOCK AND LOT 0384-H-00269-0000-00.
83MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Thieno Sow, known Heir of Darlene D. Hopkins, deceased, Jerome Fuller, known Heir of Darlene D. Hopkins, deceased, Charles Fuller, known Heir of Darlene D. Hopkins, deceased, Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns and All Persons, Firms or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest from or under Darlene D. Hopkins, deceased
CASE NO.: MG-23-000988
DEBT: $112,989.96
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) LOGS Legal Group LLP
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 985 Old Eagle School Road, Suite 514 Wayne, PA 19087
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (610) 278-6800
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, MUNICIPALITY OF PENN HILLS:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELL-
ING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 7967 ABER ROAD, VERONA, PA 15147. DEED BOOK VOLUME 11727, PAGE 556, BLOCK AND LOT 0295-E-00190-0000-00.
84MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Elizabeth E. Pilarski, Thomas J. Pilarski
CASE NO.: MG-19-001316
************* DEBT: $273,716.56
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) LOGS Legal Group LLP
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 985 Old Eagle School Road, Suite 514 Wayne, PA 19087
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (610) 278-6800
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, MUNICJPALITY OF MT. LEBANON:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 246 ASHLAND AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15228. DEED BOOK VOLUME 1062, PAGE 522, BLOCK AND LOT 0141-P00048-0000-00.
85MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Roberta L. Marchick
CASE NO.: MG-24-000228
DEBT: $24,215.24
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) The Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 1310 Industrial Boulevard, I” Floor, Suite IOI, Southampton, PA 18966
*************
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 215-942-9690 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 16th Ward, City of Pittsburgh:
HAVING THEREON ERECTED A TWO AND ONE-HALF STORY CONCRETE BLOCK AND SHINGLE DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 416 CATHEDRAL AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15210. DEED BOOK VOLUME 12063, PAGE 304. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER. 32-A-302.
86MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs.
DEFENDANT(S): Michael Hamuicka, Jr. & Marie Hamuicka, with Notice to Heirs and Assigns and Ian Dolgosheev ********************
CASE NO.: GD 17-016009 ************* DEBT: $4,494.26
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 Stowe: Having erected thereon a two-story brick house being known as 916 Ridge Avenue, McKees Rocks, PA 15136. Deed Book Volume 6113, Page 625. Block & Lot No. 73-K-349.
87MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs.
DEFENDANT(S): John G. Arch, Executor of1he Estate of Thomas A. Eichner, Deceased, & William H. Eichner
CASE NO.: GD 17-012440 ************* DEBT: $4,678.23 *************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 Shaler: Having erected 1hereon a one-story commercial building known as 1015 Sharpshill Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15215. Deed Book Volume 14737, Page 175. Block & Lot No. 222-M-26.
88MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Andrew Malone; Alisha Malone
CASE NO.: MG-24-000797 ************* DEBT: $70,333.61 *************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) MDK Legal *************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of McKeesport: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 2101 Barnsdale Avenue, McKeesport, PA 15132 AKA 2101 Barnsdale Avenue, McKeesport, PA 15132. Document Number 2017-24800, Deed Book Volume 16904, Page 593. Block and Lot Number 0462-F- 000250000-00.
89MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Megan McKissick
CASE NO.: MG-24-000543
DEBT: $102,792.31 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) MDK Legal ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER:
614-220-5611 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Ju the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, O’Hara Township: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 117 Valley Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15215. Document Number 1997-012497, Deed Book Volume 10036, Page 650. Block and Lot Number 0170-J00008-0000-00.
90MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Jacob OBrien-Rice, AKA Jacob O’Brien-
Rice
********************
CASE NO.: MG-23-000092
DEBT: $180,726.17
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
MDK Legal
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)
P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028
*************
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER:
614-220-5611 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Forward: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 5124 Dorris Drive, Elizabeth, PA 15037. Document Number 2021-14180, Deed Book Volume 18428, Page 273. Block and Lot Number 1272-S-00205-0000-00.
91MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Frances M. Foley
CASE NO.: MG-24-000193
************* DEBT: $13,622.76
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) MDK Legal *************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Stowe Township: Parcel: Having erected a dwelling being known and numbered as 904 Liberty Street, McKees Rocks, PA 15136. Deed Book Volume 11109, Page 464, Block and Lot Number 0072-B-00358-0000- 00.
PARCEL 2: Vacant land being known as Liberty Street, McKees Rocks, PA 15136. Deed Book Volume 11109, Page 464, Block and Lot Number 0072-B-00370-0000-00.
92MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) UPPER ST. CLAIR SCHOOL DISTRICT VS. DEFENDANT(S): JOHN O’ROURK.E
CASE NO.: GD-22-014204
************* DEBT: $20,779.10
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire
************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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, PARTLY I THE TOWNSHIP OF UPPER ST. CLAIR A D PARTLY IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF BETHEL PARK:
HAVING ERECTED THEREO A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 381 MCMURRAY ROAD, BETHEL PARK, PA 15102. DEED BOOK 17357, PAGE 54. BLOCK & LOT NUMBER 668-D-l 75.
93MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Tionna Legrande Coleman
********************
CASE NO.: GD-23-0 I 0668
************* DEBT: $34,439.33
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
Justin M. Tuskan, Esquire
Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe LLC
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)
444 Liberty Avenue, Suite 2100 Pittsburgh, PA 15222
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-918-1100
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, and Municipality of Penn Hills:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A ONE-STORY RESIDENTIAL BUILDING KNOWN AS 202 DUFFIELD AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15235. DEED BOOK VOLUME 17177, PAGE 63. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 369-E-353.
94MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Kevin Kirkpatrick; Jenna Kirkpatrick
CASE NO.: MG-24-000935
DEBT: $405,834.51
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) MDK Legal
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, South Fayette Township: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered 1003 Preserve Lane, Bridgeville, PA 15017. Document Number2019-12325, Deed Book Volume 17603, Page 583. Block and Lot Number 0480-K-00112-0000-00.
95MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Charles James Hollis, Jr., as believed Heir to the Estate of Marcella L. Hollis; Unknown Heirs, to the Estate of Marcella L. Hollis; Unknown Administrators, to the Estate of Marcella L. Hollis
CASE NO.: MG-24-000808
DEBT:$30,440.27
************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) MDK Legal ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611 ************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of McKeesport: Having
96MAY25 PLAINTIFF(S): Baldwin Borough VS. DEFENDANT(S): Allison Sydeski
CASE NO.: GD-22-008777
************* DEBT: $4,898.37 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Jeffrey D. Ries, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 714
Road, West Mifflin, PA 15122 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-464-9997
SHORT DESCRIPTION: ALL THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE SITUATE IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, AND BOROUGH OF BALDWIN. HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 5186 ELMWOOD DRIVE, PENNSYLVANIA 15227. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18237, PAGE 492, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 246-P-310.
97MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): STEPHEN TWICHELL, KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF MEGAN M. TWICHELL AKA STEPHAN JACKSON, DECEASED HEIR OF PEGGY M. HICKEY AKA MARGARET M. HICKEY, M.T. (A MINOR) KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF MEGAN M. TWICHELL, DECEASED HEIR OF PEGGY M. HICKEY AKA MARGARET M. HICKEY, AND UNKNOWN SURVIVING HEIRS OF PEGGY M. HICKEY AKA MARGARET M. HICKEY
CASE NO.: GD-19-012922
************* DEBT: $83,007.50 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) CHELSEA A. NIXON, ESQUIRE ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 216 HADDON AVENUE, SUITE 201 WESTMONT, NJ 08108
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (856) 858-7080 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, MUNICIPALITY OF MONROEVILLE:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 739 HEARTWOOD DRIVE, MONROEVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA 15146. DEED BOOK VOLUME 15706, PAGE 355. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0637-F-001760000-00.
98MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Ann L. Bonfiglio
CASE NO.: MG-24-000885
************* DEBT: $48,583.45
************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Stephen M. Hladik, Esquire
************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 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 WEST VIEW:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 14 COLUMBIA AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15229. DEED BOOK VOLUME 11731, PAGE 544. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 279-B-280.
99MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Robert N. Lynch and Patricia L. Lynch
CASE NO.: AR-24-002920
************* DEBT: $4,511.91
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Fred C. Jug, Jr. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 310 Grant Street, Suite 1109, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-255-6500
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, South Fayette Township:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A HUNTING RIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATION DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 220 HORSESHOE CIRCLE, BRIDGEVILLE, PA 15017. DEED BOOK 5674, PAGE 737. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 481-K-036.
100MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Daniel R. Housley ******************** CASE NO.: AR-24-002003 ************* DEBT: $2,663.23
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Fred C. Jug, Jr.
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 310 Grant Street, Suite 1109, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-255-6500 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Jefferson Hills:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A JEFFERSON RIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATION, INC. CONDOMINIUM UNIT BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 324 NEW WORLD DRIVE, CLAIRTON, PA 15025. DEED BOOK 13550, PAGE 187. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1006-C00050-0052-00
101MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): NATHAN D. MEYERS ******************** CASE NO.: AR-24-002035
DEBT: $2,909.88
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Fred C. Jug, Jr.
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 310 Grant Street, Suite 1109, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-255-6500 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, South Fayette Township: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A HUNTING RIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATION CONDOMINIUM UNIT BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2463 BROOK LEDGE ROAD,
106MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): TIMOTHY M. BUTKO AKA TIMOTHY BUTKO, JR
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
Carolyn Treglia, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)
& Scott, PLLC
RENAISSANCE BOULEVARD, SUITE
KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (844) 856-6646
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF PORT VUE Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 1482 ROMINE AVENUE, MCKEESPORT, PA 15133. Deed Book Volume 16349, Page 220. Block and Lot Number 0383-S-000900000-00
107MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): AUDREA MOSESSO aka AUDREA SLAUGHTER, IN HER CAPACITY AS HEIR OF LUCIOUS SLAUGHTER aka LUCIOUS A. SLAUGHTER aka LUCIOUS ANDREW SLAUGHTER, JR., DECEASED; UNKNOWN HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS, AND ALL PERSONS, FIRMS, OR ASSOCIATIONS CLAIMING RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST FROM OR UNDER LUCIOUS SLAUGHTER aka LUCIOUS A. SLAUGHTER aka LUCIOUS ANDREW SLAUGHTER, JR., DECEASED ******************** CASE NO.: MG-23-00 l O17 DEBT: $103,151.22
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Carolyn Treglia, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) Brock & Scott, PLLC 2011 RENAISSANCE BOULEVARD, SUITE
Allegheny, BOROUGH OF WEST MIFFLIN Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 203 RHODES AVE, WEST MIFFLIN, PA 15122. Deed Book Volume DE-17833, Page 341. Block and Lot Number 0240-S-001760000-00
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS
Urban Design/Planning – Regional community development and historic preservation organization requests Qualifications relative to the following: 1) urban design, 2) mapping and graphics, 3) land use integration 4) public space and public transit related improvements, 5) individuals available for assignment, 6) working with multiple stakeholders and the public and building consensus, 7) minority and women-owned businesses participation, and 8) method and/or rates of compensation. Within thirty days of first publication of this notice, firms/individuals should send Qualifications as outlined above to: Young Preservationists Association, 700 River Avenue, Suite 318, Pittsburgh, PA 15212. Final Due Date: Friday May 2, 2025.
To place a display ad in the New Pittsburgh Courier call 412-481-8302 ext. 128
1-800-PACK-RAT (PA-LEETSDALE-5463)
142 FERRY ST LEETSDALE, PA 15056
877-774-1537
NOTICE OF SALE
Tenant: Unit Bader, Mazza, Elizabeth AU: Debbie 801476
Cushey, David 705217
Felosky, Alice D67924
Hanna, Michelle D69308
Hoffman, Bre 703481
Jackson, Troy 802029
Jones, Kevin D65319
Kenny, Erin D00805
Lucas, Saria D03154
Miller, Wilbur D01250
Moon, Briona D05212
Taylor, Sabrina 704269
Washington, Khaliya 702570
Wilson, Erich D54776
Winphrie, Mashell D66920
1-800-Pack-Rat (PA-Leetsdale-5463), 142 Ferry St, Leetsdale, PA 15056, has possessory lien on all of the goods stored in the units above. All these items of personal property are being sold pursuant to the assertion of the lien on 5/1/2025 at 10:00 AM in order to collect the amounts due from you. The sale will take place on www.storagetreasures.com from 5/1/2025 to 5/8/2025 at 12:00 Pm
LEGAL ADVERTISING
Bids/Proposals
LEGAL ADVERTISING
Bids/Proposals
PORT AUTHORITY OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY D.B.A. PRT
Electronic Proposals will be received online at PRT’s Ebusiness website (http://ebusiness.portauthority.org).
Proposals/bid submittals will be due 11:00 AM on May 15, 2025, and will be read at 11:15 AM, the same day, through your web browser via Microsoft Teams video conferencing, for the following:
Electronic Proposal - Ebusiness website (http://ebusiness.portauthority.org)
Bid Name
Bid Number
1 B25-04-24 Elevator and Escalator Service Maintenance
2 B25-04-25 Section Insulators
3 B25-04-26 Maintenance, Inspection, Testing and Certification of Fire Protection Systems
To join the bid opening through Microsoft Teams meeting on your computer, mobile app or room device
Meeting ID: 281 804 285 52
Passcode: pY2R4JN3
Or call in (audio only)
412-927-0245
Phone Conference ID: 648 858 958#
No bidder may withdraw a submitted Proposal for a period of 75 days after the scheduled time for opening of the sealed bids.
A Pre-Bid Conference will be held on April 29, 2025, through your web browser via Microsoft Teams video conferencing. Attendance at this meeting is not mandatory but is strongly encouraged.
Join on your computer, mobile app or room device
Meeting ID: 268 856 531 669
Passcode: Nq3W2Dg2
Or call in (audio only)
412-927-0245
Phone Conference ID: 214 341 232#
Questions regarding any of the above bids will not be entertained by the PRT within five (5) business days of the scheduled bid opening.
These contracts may be subject to a financial assistance contract between Port Authority of Allegheny County d.b.a. PRT and the United States Department of Transportation. The Contractor will be required to comply with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. Contractor is responsible for expenses related to acquiring a performance bond and insurance where applicable. All items are to be FOB delivered unless otherwise specified. Costs for delivery, bond, and insurance shall be included in bidder’s proposal pricing.
Port Authority of Allegheny County d.b.a. PRT hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in regard to any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprise will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award.
The Board of PRT reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
DOCUMENT 00030-AA
ADVERTISEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT
ALLEGHENY COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
The Allegheny County Airport Authority will be receiving scanned PDF proposals through Submittable, and a submission link will be sent to each registered plan holder. Submissions are to be submitted via Submittable by 1:00 p.m. prevailing local time on May 28, 2025, and bids will be opened by the Airport Authority and results will be emailed by end of business day of bid opening for the following project: ALLEGHENY COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY PROJECT NUMBER 40G1-25 (GENERAL) RUNWAY 10-28 REHABILITATION AT ALLEGHENY COUNTY AIRPORT
A pre-bid conference will be held at 9:00 a.m., on May 8, 2025, in Allegheny County Airport Conference Room 108 (lower level) at Allegheny County Airport, 12 Allegheny County Airport, West Mifflin, PA 15122.
Attention is called to the fact that not less than the minimum salaries and wages, as determined by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, must be paid on these projects. Proposals must be made on the Authority’s form and in accordance with the Plans and Specifications and the “Instructions to Bidders”’. The non-refundable charge of $150.00 for the Bid Documents and the Plans, and Specifications through the bidding platform Submittable at https://acaacapitalprograms.submittable.com.
Please note that Submittable does not support Internet Explorer 11. Submittable recommends the following browsers: Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Apple Safari.
This project has DBE participation goals; DBE firms must be certified with the Pennsylvania Unified Certification Program) (PA UCP). Firms must be certified prior to award of contract. A searchable database of DBE firms can be found on the PA UCP web site: https://paucp.dbesystem.com/
The Airport Authority reserves the right to reject any and all bids or waive any informalities in the bidding.
No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of sixty [60] days after the scheduled closing time for receipt of bids.
To view a complete advertisement, which is also included in the bidding documents visit www.flypittsburgh.com – ACAA Corporate – Business Opportunities or call 412-472-3677.
ALLEGHENY COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY
DOCUMENT 00030-AA ADVERTISEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT
ALLEGHENY COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
The Allegheny County Airport Authority will be receiving scanned PDF proposals through Submittable, and a submission link will be sent to each registered plan holder. Submissions are to be submitted via Submittable by 1:00 p.m. prevailing local time on May 28, 2025, and bids will be opened by the Airport Authority and results will be emailed by end of business day of bid opening for the following project:
ALLEGHENY COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY
PROJECT NUMBER 55G1-25 (GENERAL)
PROJECT NUMBER 55E1-25 (ELECTRICAL) PROJECT NUMBER 55P1-25 (PLUMBING/FIRE PROTECTION)
AIRSIDE CONCOURSE RENOVATIONS PHASE 1 AT PITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
A pre-bid conference will be held at 10:00 a.m., on May 7, 2025, in Conference Room A at Pittsburgh International Airport Landside Terminal, 4th Floor Mezz, Pittsburgh, PA 15231. All contractors that are interested in attending the site visit/walk through must pre-register through the Submittable platform at https://acaacapitalprograms.submittable.com
Attention is called to the fact that not less than the minimum salaries and wages, as determined by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, must be paid on these projects.
Proposals must be made on the Authority’s form and in accordance with the Plans and Specifications and the “Instructions to Bidders”’. The non-refundable charge of $150.00 for the Bid Documents and the Plans, and Specifications through the bidding platform Submittable at https://acaacapitalprograms.submittable.com.
Please note that Submittable does not support Internet Explorer 11. Submittable recommends the following browsers: Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Apple Safari.
This project has DBE participation goals; DBE firms must be certified with the Pennsylvania Unified Certification Program) (PA UCP). Firms must be certified prior to award of contract. A searchable database of DBE firms can be found on the PA UCP web site: https://paucp.dbesystem.com/ The Airport Authority reserves the right to reject any and all bids or waive any informalities in the bidding.
No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of sixty [60] days after the scheduled closing time for receipt of bids.
To view a complete advertisement, which is also included in the bidding documents visit www.flypittsburgh.com – ACAA Corporate – Business Opportunities or call 412-472-3677 or 412-472-3892
ALLEGHENY COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY
DOCUMENT 00030-AA ADVERTISEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT
ALLEGHENY COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
PROJECT NUMBER 25TG01 (GENERAL)
PROJECT NUMBER 25TE01 (ELECTRICAL)
PROJECT NUMBER 25TP01 (PLUMBING/FIRE SUPPRESSION)
PROJECT NUMBER 25TM01 (MECHANICAL)
ACPD SATELLITE OFFICE RENOVATIONS at PITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
ELECTRONIC BIDS & BID OPENING PROCEDURE:
Electronic Bids will be received by the Allegheny County Airport Authority until 1:00 P.M. prevailing local time, June 4, 2025.
The ACAA is modifying its typical bid opening process; the formal bid opening procedure will be conducted virtually – any/all firms submitting a Bid to the ACAA will be given special access to view the opening event. Once bidding is closed, any/all firms submitting a bid will be issued an Invitation (via email) to access the formal bid opening event via a live webcast. Bidders will also be notified of the results via an email within (24) hours of the Bid Opening event.
ACCESS TO BID PACKAGE DOCUMENTS:
ALL BIDDERS shall be required to provide a completed formal Bid Document Request application in order to acquire bidding documents for any/all of the above listed Project Numbers. No bidding documents will be issued prior to the Authority’s Construction Manager having a copy of a fully completed Request Application. Bid Document Request Applications can be obtained by sending a Request to the following email address: TMPBids@flypittsburgh.com
On the Subject Line, include the following: “Bid Documents Request –ACPD Satellite Office Renovations”.
Once a bidder’s request has been received, provided it is complete, the CM will provide access for the bidder to access and download the bid documents through Building Connected, a web-based bid management platform.
A PREBID CONFERENCE –May 12, 2025 – 11:30 AM
The meeting will be a Microsoft Teams Meeting. To join the meeting the following number can be called (877) 286-5733 - United States (Toll-Free) – Conference ID 523 869 672#. Please email TMPBids@flypittsburgh.com to receive the link to join by computer.
A site visit will be conducted. Details regarding the site visit will be provided at the Pre-Bid meeting. Note that no questions can be asked during this Prebid Meeting. Any/all questions must be issued to the CM as an “RFI”.
REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION (RFIs)
Any/all questions related to this project must be made in writing to the CM. RFIs are to be sent to the CM via email to TMPBids@flypittsburgh.com
BID SUBMISSION
Proposals must be made on the Authority’s forms and in accordance with the Plans and Specifications and the “Instructions to Bidders”’. ACAA will not be accepting any hard copy bids for this Project. Accordingly, Electronic Bids are the only form that the ACAA will accept. While the Instructions to Bidders will provide more details, for an Electronic Bid to be accepted in must be sent through Building Connected and it must be received by no later than the established Bid Date and time deadline. OTHER ISSUES
Attention is called to the fact that not less than the minimum salaries and wages as determined by the General Wage Determinations issued under the Davis-Bacon and related Acts must be paid on these projects. This project has DBE participation goals; DBE firms must be certified with the Pennsylvania Unified Certification Program) (PAUCP). Firms must be certified prior to award of contract. A searchable database of DBE firms can be found on the PAUCP web site: https://paucp.dbesystem.com/ The Airport Authority reserves the right to reject any and all bids or waive any informalities in the bidding.
No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of one hundred twenty [120] days after the scheduled closing time for receipt of bids.
To view a complete advertisement, which is also included in the bidding documents visit www.flypittsburgh.com under “Business Opportunities” ALLEGHENY COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY
ADVERTISEMENT FOR REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
LEGAL ADVERTISING
Bids/Proposals
ADVERTISEMENT
Bid 1140 – Shuttle Bus Service – North Campus
Bid 1141 – Copier/Printer Paper
Due date: 2:00 P.M. Prevailing
Time on Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Any bid or proposals received after this deadline will be considered as a “late bid” and will be returned unopened to the offerer.
Proposals may require Bid Bonds, Performance Bonds, Payment Bonds, and Surety as dictated by the specifications.
No bidder may withdraw his bid or proposal for a period of ninety (90) days after the scheduled closing time for receipt of bids.
The Board of Trustees reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
The Community College of Allegheny County is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and encourages bids from Minority/Disadvantaged owned businesses. For more information, contact Michael Cvetic at mcvetic@ccac.edu
Community College of Allegheny County Purchasing Department 800 Allegheny Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15233
OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENT
THE BOARD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PITTSBURGH
Submit sealed proposals to the Facilities Department, Pittsburgh Public Schools Service Center, 1305 Muriel Street, Pittsburgh PA 15203 until 2:00 p.m. D/EST on 10
June 2025 for:
Request for Qualifications and Proposal (RFQ/P) for Architectural and Engineering Services for Central Kitchen Renovation and Re-Equipping
RFQ/P is available at the Pittsburgh Public Schools website, https:// www.pghschools.org/community /business-opportunities/rfps or by email request to LFornataro1@pghschools.org, at no charge. Mandatory Pre-Proposal meeting at 10:00 a.m. D/EST on 20 May 2025.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES Help Wanted
BOROUGH OF AVALON
Public Works Maintenance Worker, Borough of Avalon, Allegheny County – Applications are currently being accepted by the Borough Council for the position of Public Works Maintenance Worker. Maintenance workers perform a variety of physical and mental tasks associated with the maintenance, repair, and construction of Public Works assets. Essential functions include equipment operations, such as repairing and performing general maintenance tasks on Borough roadways, operating light- or mediumweight trucks, and plowing and removing snow; vehicle repair and maintenance; storm and sanitary repair and maintenance; and property maintenance tasks at municipal buildings, parks, and recreation areas. Applicants must have a high school diploma or equivalent and valid driver’s license; a CDL license is preferred but not required. Must be able to respond to emergencies on a 24-hour basis, especially during periods of snow. Flagger certification, CPO certification, and Pesticide Application certification must be obtained within 6 months of hire. This is a union position, affiliated with General Teamsters Local 249. The full job description can be viewed at www.boroughofavalon.org. Interested candidates should submit their application to info@boroughofavalon.org or Manager, Borough of Avalon, 640 California Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15202 no later than 4:00 pm, Friday, May 9, 2025.
Lorraine Makatura Borough Secretary
Longue Vue Club located in Verona, PA seeks Full Time Greens Staff (multiple openings) responsible for working independently or as a part of a team in providing various hands-on services. Apply online: https://longuevue.org/employment
Hitachi Rail STS USA, Inc. seeks an OS&M Quality Manager in Pittsburgh, PA, and unanticipated locations throughout the U.S. This position is for a roving employee who will work in unanticipated locations throughout the United States. The employee will have to relocate, but travel is not required from any particular location. The OS&M Quality Manager will be responsible for implementing quality management in line with STS strategies and in compliance with IMS for projects involving more than one legal entity or plant. Apply at https://careers.hitachi.com/jobs.
Hitachi Rail STS USA, Inc. , headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, seeks a Signaling Functional Design Engineer to work in Pittsburgh, PA, and unanticipated locations throughout the U.S. The Signaling Functional Design Engineer will be responsible for delivering the functional design of small signaling projects (in terms of geography, number of objects, subsystems or interfaces involved) in accordance with industry and company standards. Apply at: https://careesrs.hitachi.com/jobs.
and time series analysis to enhance credit risk management and operational efficiency; (ii) engaging in gathering, processing, and mining of large and complex quantitative financial datasets persisted in Hadoop and cloud datastores; (iii) building automated data workflows to consolidate and summarize data for weekly/monthly reporting to recommend optimal actions to management; (iv) developing quantitative algorithms using advanced mathematical and statistical techniques like machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing to drive decision making at PNC; (v) running quantitative financial anal ytical experiments in a methodical manner to find opportunities for product and process optimization; (vi) assisting in the presentation of business insights to management using visualization technologies and data storytelling; and (vii) partnering with Data Architects, Data Engineers, and Visualization Experts to develop data-driven quantitative financial solutions for the business. Master’s degree in Analytics, Economics, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or Information Systems Management plus 3 years of experience in data querying with SQL and programming in Python for developing applications for a large organization (>10,000 employees) is required. Must have experience with: (i) handling, manipulation and analysis of large datasets (multiple gigabytes of data) persisted on Hadoop, Neo4j and cloud data platforms; (ii) using statistical analysis techniques including logistic regression, time series analysis, and hypothesis testing; (iii) utilizing data query tools including SQL, R, and Python to manipulate, analyze and interpret data; (iv) writing and implementing code to clean and transform large tabular and text datasets (typically exceeding 1 million rows of data) to a consistent format usable in data visualization and developing machine learning models; (v) enriching in-house data by integrating with external data sources (Bureau and third party vendor data) to extract and analyze trends for risk management; (vi) designing rich data visualizations to communicate complex ideas to customers or company leaders; (vii) programmatically extracting data from a Hadoop database and transforming the data into a presentable form using Python plotting libraries (Matplotlib and Seaborn) and Tableau visualizations; and (viii) building machine learning models to drive business insights and improve financial outcomes. 40 hours/week, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Interested individuals apply online at www.pnc.com using keyword R188602. PNC provides equal employment opportunity to qualified persons regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other categories protected by law.
PPG Industries, Inc. has an S&T Product Development Chemist Expert position in Cheswick, PA, responsible for contributing to PPG’s dvlpmnt of highly innovative technical solutions for chemical coatings problems by formulating high-temperature resistant, insulating, & corrosion resistant coatings. Apply online at careers.ppg.com.
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER
Aquareyn Technologies LLC has job opening for Industrial Engineer in Pittsburgh, PA. Salary $77,522/ yr. Send resume by mail to 150 Gamma Drive, Pittsburgh, PA, 15238, Attn: C. Lalit
