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THE BUFFALO MASS SHOOTING VICTIMS: TOP ROW: CELESTINE CHANEY, ROBERTA DRURY, ANDRE MACKNIEL, KATHERINE MASSEY, MARGUS MORRISON. BOTTOM ROW: HEYWARD PATTERSON, AARON SALTER, GERALDINE TALLEY, RUTH WHITFIELD, PEARL YOUNG.
President Biden says ‘White supremacy is a poison’ after 10 Blacks killed in Buffalo by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer
In a little over three hours, a person in Pittsburgh could drive to Buffalo, New York. In a little over three
hours, a person in Conklin, N.Y., could drive to Buffalo. In a little over three hours, a severely-misguided, racist coward did drive from Conklin, N.Y., to Buffalo, and set out to kill Black people.
Which he did. Ten Black people, to be exact, at a grocery store. Three others have so far survived their injuries. But a strike against one Black community is a strike against all Black
communities. This time, on this otherwise peaceful, happy-go-lucky Saturday afternoon, May 14, the attack just happened to occur in Buffalo. It could have happened in any Black community.
The New Pittsburgh Courier firmly stands with the Black community in Buffalo, who are reeling from this heinous attack by an 18-year-old White man whom the Courier refuses to name.
“In America, evil will not win, I promise you,” President Joe Biden said in Buffalo after visiting the growing memorial site outSEE BUFFALO A9
New, state-of-the-art medical center coming to Homewood by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer
Come the fall of 2024, Homewood will be “home” to a new, state-of-the-art, $20 million facility with pretty much any health-related service one would need. The New Pittsburgh Courier has learned that the Alma Illery Medical
Center, owned by Primary Care Health Services Inc., for 45 years on Hamilton Avenue, will remain open as the new, larger building is constructed in the space next to the current center. Groundbreaking for the new center is expected for the summer of 2023. When the 35,000 to 40,000-square foot building is fully constructed and
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in operation, it will serve as PCHS’ new headquarters, and the current Alma Illery Medical Center will be torn down. “The current facility has outlived its usefulness,” Dr. Jerome Gloster, CEO of PCHS, told the Courier in an interview, May 11. “We’ve listened to the community. The community has wanted a new health center for years.” With the new building comes an expanded pharmacy, which would become a retail pharmacy, able to fill prescriptions for the SEE MEDICAL CENTER A8
DR. JEROME GLOSTER, CEO of Primary Care Health Services Inc. The organization is constructing a new medical center to replace the Alma Illery Medical Center in Homewood.
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1896—The United States Supreme Court issues its infamous ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson. The decision declared the doctrine of “separate but equal” was constitutional. By doing so it, in effect, approved all Jim Crow or segregationist laws designed to degrade Blacks or keep them separate from Whites. The ruling would stand until the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954. 1955—Legendary educator Mary McLeod Bethune dies at 79 in Daytona Beach, Fla. Born the 15th of 17 children in Mayesville, S.C., Bethune would rise to become one of the nation’s foremost Black educators and early civil rights activist. She was a driving force behind the founding of Florida’s Bethune-Cookman College.
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White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre made history on Friday, May 13, when she assumed the role of White House press secretary, becoming the first Black and first openly LGBTQ person to hold the position. President Biden announced a few weeks ago that he was appointing Jean-Pierre to the role as press secretary Jen Psaki departed to assume a media role at MSNBC. JeanPierre was principal deputy press secretary. “Karine not only brings the experience, talent and integrity needed for this difficult job, but she will continue to lead the way in communicating about the work of the Biden-Harris Administration on behalf of the American people,” President Biden said in a written statement. “Jill and I have known and re-
spected Karine a long time and she will be a strong voice speaking for me and this Administration.” “I am still processing it because, as Jen said…this is a historic moment and it’s not lost on me,” JeanPierre said during the White House press conference a few weeks ago when the announcement was made. “I understand how important it is for so many people out there. So many different communities that I stand on their shoulders.” She continued: “It is an honor and a privilege to be behind this podium.” Jean-Pierre was born in Martinique to Haitian parents and migrated to the United States with her family as a child, according to NBC News. She grew up in Queens, New York. She got her start in politics as an activist, and later as a political commentator for MSNBC. She was chief public affairs officer at MoveOn.org — a website that allows people to
circulate petitions for progressive causes online — and worked on the Reproductive Freedom Initiative campaign at the ACLU. Pierre later served on the presidential campaigns for former President Barack Obama and 2016 Democratic candidate Martin O’Malley. She was also senior adviser for the Biden campaign and chief of staff for Kamala Harris’ 2020 campaign run. Jean-Pierre made history last summer when she became only the second Black woman to deliver a White House press briefing — and the first in 30 years. Judy Smith, who served as a White House spokesperson for President George H.W. Bush, beginning in 1991, was the first Black woman to deliver a briefing, according to People Magazine. She was also the inspiration for the character Olivia Pope in the TV show “Scandal,” the magazine reported.
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1925—Black revolutionary Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on this day in Omaha, Neb. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and a follower of the legendary Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey. For his outspokenness, Earl Little would be brutally killed in 1929 by a Ku Klux Klan type group. A smart and focused student, Malcolm dreamed of becoming a lawyer. But that dream would be crushed by prejudice when one of his favorite teachers told him that was “not a realistic goal for a nigger.” He would end up dropping out of school and moving with his mother to Boston, Mass. He would later travel to New York City where he began a criminal life of petty crimes, but rapidly moved up to coordinating drug, prostitution and gambling rings. With the “heat” on, he moved back to Boston where he was arrested and sentenced to prison on a burglary charge in 1946. By the time he was paroled in 1952, he was a devoted follower of Elijah Muhammad and a small Muslim sect known as the Nation of Islam and had dropped his “slave” last name in favor of being referred to as “Malcolm X.” From 1952 to 1963, he became the primary force behind the building of the Nation of Islam from a sect of fewer than 1,000 members to a national organization of more than 30,000 members. But his faith in Elijah Muhammad was crushed when he learned in 1963 that the married and outwardly puritanical Muhammad had had extra-marital affairs with at least six young Nation of Islam women. A bitter separation resulted between Malcolm and the Nation. Malcolm then turned to a more orthodox version of Islam and began to seek closer relations with other Black Nationalist and civil rights groups. He was assassinated at Harlem, N.Y.’s, Audubon Ballroom on Feb. 21, 1965 by three men associated with the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X was 39. 1930—Lorraine Hansberry is born in Chicago, Ill. During her short life she becomes one of Black America’s most prolific authors and playwrights. Her most famous play was “A Raisin in the Sun”—which was the first drama written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway. After her death from cancer in 1965, another one of her plays—“To Be Young, Gifted and Black” became a major off-Broadway production. 1952—Eccentric model and singer Grace Jones is born in Spanish Town, Jamaica. In addition to her singing and modeling, her unusual style propels her into a status as one of the icons of the disco and new music scene of the 1970s.
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1743—Touissant L’Ouverture, the father of Haitian independence, is born. Although he was not part of the initial disturbances, L’Ouverture was quickly drafted into leadership of the 1791 Slave Revolt. He converted the random burnings of plantations and killings of unlucky Whites into a full-scale revolution against slavery on the island. Under his leadership, the slaves were organized into an effective fighting force which would go on to defeat the British army and the greatest conqueror of the period, France’s Napoleon Bonaparte. Indeed, L’Ouverture’s fighting might was indirectly responsible for the growth of America. Desperate to raise money to fight the Haitians, Napoleon sold the massive Louisiana territory to America at an amazingly low price. L’Ouverture was tricked into attending a phony “peace conference” in France. Once there he was jailed. But the leadership void was immediately filled by one of his lieutenants—Jean Jacques Dessalines who would complete the revolution started by L’Ouverture. Haiti became independent in 1804.
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1862—Mary Patterson becomes the first Black woman in U.S. History to be awarded a master’s degree. She earned it from Oberlin College in Ohio.
2009—NFL star quarterback Michael Vick is released from federal prison after serving 19 months of a 23-month sentence for financing a dog fighting ring. Formerly with the Atlanta Falcons, Vick finished his career with the Philadelphia Eagles. 2009—A Black man—James Young— is elected mayor of Philadelphia, Miss.,—a town which during the 1960s had the nation’s most racist reputation. Ku Klux Klan members dominated the town and it was known for the mistreatment and unpunished killings of Blacks. One of the most brutal events in the city was the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers. In his 2009 election victory, Young captured 30 percent of the White vote. 1881—Blanche Kelso Bruce is sworn in as a senator from Mississippi. He became the first Black man to serve a full term in the United States Senate. During his service, he advocated for the political and social rights of Blacks, Indians and Chinese immigrants.
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1863—The War Department establishes the Bureau of Colored Troops and began to aggressively recruit Blacks for the Civil War. The Black troops would play a major role in turning the tide of battle against the rebellious Southern slave states. 1959—Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force. His father, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., had been the first Black general in the U.S. Army.
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1921—“Shuffle Along”—the first of a succession of widely popular Black musicals performed for White audiences—opened at the 63rd Street Theatre in New York City, becoming the first African-American Broadway musical. The musical comedy combined the talents of the legendary team of Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle. “Shuffle Along” produced a long list of hits including “Shuffle Along,” “I’m Just Wild about Harry,” “Gypsy Blues” and “Love Will Find A Way.” 1981—Legendary Reggae artist Bob Marley is given an official state funeral in his homeland of Jamaica. He had died of cancer on May 11 in Miami. Marley and his band “The Wailers” had made Reggae popular worldwide with such hits as “Stir It Up” and “No Woman, No Cry.” He was considered the first third world superstar and a prophet of the Rastafarian religion. He was only 36 when he died. His body now lies in a mausoleum in Jamaica.
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1854—Anthony Burns, one of the most celebrated fugitive slaves in American history, is captured by deputy U.S. Marshals in Boston. But at the time anti-slavery feeling was running high in Boston and it was one of the cities which had vowed not to obey the Fugitive Slave Act—a federal law that required even those opposed to slavery to help slave owners capture run-away slaves. For fear that Boston residents would help Burns escape to Canada, the U.S. government sent 2,000 troops to Boston to assist in returning Burns to Virginia. Thousands lined the streets as Burns was marched to a ship on June 3 for a trip back South. However, a Black Boston church raised the money to purchase Burns and within a year of his capture, he was back in Boston a free man. 1856—The so-called Pottawatomie Massacre takes place. A force of men led by famed abolitionist John Brown attacks a pro-slavery settlement in Franklin County, Kan., leaving at least five men dead. The attack was part of a period known as “Bleeding Kansas” when pro and anti-slavery forces battled one another in a bid to determine whether Kansas would be a slave or free territory. The “Pottawatomie Massacre” was also one of the events which made the Civil War unavoidable. 1944—Legendary singer Patti LaBelle is born Patricia Louise Holte in Philadelphia, Pa.
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Take charge of risk factors impacting heart health (Family Features) Cholesterol—a waxy substance created by the liver or consumed from meat, poultry and dairy products—isn’t inherently “bad” for you. In fact, your body needs it to build cells and make vitamins and other hormones. However, too much “bad” LDL cholesterol, or not enough “good” HDL cholesterol, can pose problems. High cholesterol is one of
lesterol and other risk factors checked more often and may need medication to manage their conditions to prevent another event. According to the American Heart Association, as many as 1 in 4 survivors will have another heart attack or stroke. Along with taking medication as prescribed, some lifestyle habits can help manage your risk and help you live a longer, healthier life like
meats. Get Moving You likely know exercise is good for you, but an Oxford University study revealed simply swapping 30 minutes of sitting with low-intensity physical activity can reduce your risk of death by 17 percent. Mortality aside, in its Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services noted physi-
long work hours, financial stress and work-life conflict may be as risky for health as secondhand smoke, according to a report by the Behavior Science and Policy Association. Aside from the toll on your body—including elevated risk for heart disease and stroke from high blood pressure, depression or anxiety—stress can lead to unhealthy habits like overeating, physical inac-
the major controllable risk factors for heart disease and stroke. Because it typically has no symptoms, you may not know you have high cholesterol until it’s causing problems. Knowing key health numbers like blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol, and working closely with your doctor to manage them, are keys to preventing heart disease and stroke. Those who have already experienced a heart attack or stroke or have family history of cardiovascular disease, chronic inflammatory disease or kidney disease may need to have their cho-
watching what you eat, getting more exercise and managing stress. Make Healthy Menu Choices A healthy eating plan is a well-rounded diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables (at least 4-5 servings each day). In fact, researchers at the University of Columbia found each daily serving of fruits or vegetables was associated with a 4 percent lower risk of coronary heart disease and a 5 percent lower risk of stroke. Other smart choices for your menu include nuts and seeds, whole grains, lean proteins and fish. Limit sweets, sugar-sweetened beverages, saturated fat, trans fat, sodium and fatty or processed
cal activity offers numerous benefits to improve health, including a lower risk of diseases, stronger bones and muscles, improved mental health and cognitive function and lower risk of depression. The greatest impacts come from getting the recommended amount of activity: at least 150 minutes of moderate activity, 75 minutes of vigorous activity or a combination of those activities per week. Be sure to discuss with your doctor which activities may be best for you. Reduce Stress Constant or chronic stress can have real consequences on both emotional and physical health. In fact, research shows chronic stressors like
tivity and smoking. Exercise is an effective way to keep your body healthy and release stress. You might also consider incorporating meditation and mindfulness practices into your day to allow yourself a few minutes to distance yourself from daily stress. Research compiled by the American Heart Association suggests meditation can reduce blood pressure, improve sleep, support the immune system and increase your ability to process information. Learn more about managing your cholesterol and habits to protect your heart health at heart.org/cholesterol.
Make family reunions meaningful (Family Features) During the coming months, families are likely to spend more time together. Reunions that have been postponed during the pandemic will finally take place, and once those long-awaited hugs have been exchanged, everyone can settle in for some overdue catching up. However, the time many families spent apart over the past couple of years means important conversations may have been put on hold. A family reunion is a perfect opportunity to share stories, reminisce and discover what matters most to the people who matter most to you. Sitting down with loved ones to talk about their lives can be richly satisfying. Learning about memorable events, favorite activities and valuable lessons they have learned can help bring you closer to loved ones and get to know them in a different way. It can also help you create a meaningful tribute to a loved one when the time comes. Finding a way to start talking with a loved one may be the most difficult part, but once the conversation starts, it may be hard to stop. Consider these tips from RememberingALife.com, an online
resource from the experts at the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) to get the conversation started. Start by sharing mutual stories. If you’ve taken a vacation together or shared a cherished experience, discuss that first to get the conversation going. If your family member is hesitant, share your own stories first so he or she feels more comfortable. Ask questions. One of the easiest ways to start and maintain a conversation is by asking questions. If you’re not sure what to ask, try inquiring about your loved one’s proudest achievement, the best advice received, a favorite memory or greatest inspiration. A visual prompt like a photo album, souvenir or memento can also be a conversation starter. If you’re comfortable with the idea, also ask how he or she would like to be remembered when gone. Take notes. Either during or after your conversation, make note of the important memories shared. If it won’t make your loved one uncomfortable, make an audio recording of your discussion so you can listen again later. These notes and recordings may become treasured heirlooms for future generations.
Treat your talk as a beginning. Use it as a springboard for more conversations, during which you can openly talk about any number of things, from reflecting on the past to planning for the future. Designed to be a fun and easy way to help get the discussion started, NFDA created “Have the Talk of a Lifetime” conversation cards featuring thought-provoking questions. The things you discuss may be helpful when your family must make important decisions about how you wish to remember and honor your loved one after he or she dies. When the time comes, make it meaningful. These shared conversations may help your family plan a meaningful funeral or life tribute event for your loved one that honors his or her life while giving you, your family and other friends a chance to reminisce and say goodbye. When the time comes, memorialization can be an important step in the journey toward healing. When you’re preserving your family’s legacy, resources such as RememberingALife.com can provide helpful information about memorialization and other end-of-life matters.
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general public. It would create Homewood’s first retail pharmacy in years. “I think we feel that we’re helping to reduce a barrier to care,” Dr. Gloster said. “When residents have to travel outside their neighborhood just to get pharmacy services, that creates an additional barrier, transportation and otherwise.”
THE HUMBLE BEGINNING The year was 1968, the same year of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Free neighborhood clinics were being formed in Black communities throughout the country, partly due to the Civil Rights Movement, but also because of common sense— many African Americans were uninsured, and thus shut out of quality health
care services. The federal government stepped in. A special Economic Opportunity Act in the early 1960s spurred Neighborhood Health Centers to be built for those who were underprivileged. By 1968, these Neighborhood Health Centers, referred to today as Federally Qualified Health Centers, were becoming the rule, rather than the exception. In Pittsburgh, the Homewood-Brushton Neighbor-
hood Health Center was formed in 1968. Robert Bolden was its first executive director. When Primary Care Health Services Inc., was formed roughly eight years later, the center became PCHS’ home base and was renamed the Alma Illery Medical Center in honor of Alma Illery, the tireless civic leader, community champion and, as described in a newspaper article, the “Doctor of Goodwill.”
Illery received an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from Tuskegee University for her advocacy of racial integration in hospitals and promotion of training minorities for careers in health care, according to the PCHS website. Wilford Payne became the executive director for PCHS and the Alma Illery Medical Center in 1977, and he’s credited with transforming PCHS into what it is today—a comprehensive health services organization with a total of nine locations (McKeesport, Braddock, Homestead, Homewood, Hazelwood, West End, Hill District, East Liberty, Wilkinsburg). DR. JEROME GLOSTER’S ARRIVAL
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in organizational leadership. Deep down, he always had his eye on becoming the CEO of a health services organization, and in 2018, he returned to Primary Care Health Services Inc., as CEO and chief medical officer. Dr. Gloster said one of his primary goals upon becoming CEO was to find the funding for a brand new medical facility in Homewood, for Homewood. Enter Sylvia Fields, longtime leader of the Eden Hall Foundation, a mid-size philanthropic organization in Pittsburgh with assets of $300 million. In January, the Eden Hall Foundation hosted an event which brought together a variety of funders, organizations and interested parties to witness the grand presentation and aspirations that PCHS had in constructing a new facility. A lot of those in attendance were impressed. Taking a step further than just being “impressed,” the
Eden Hall Foundation then announced it had awarded Primary Health Care Services Inc., a $2 million grant to jumpstart the building’s construction. “We’re very excited about it, to say the least,” voiced Fields, in an exclusive interview with the Courier, April 8. “COVID did a lot of things. It opened eyes about Federally Qualified Health Centers, so when people were having a tough time getting their shots, these centers and the Alma Illery Medical Center was right out front, and a destination for people who needed their shots. We began to think about the basic health care that FQHCs provide.” Fields said that the many African Americans in the Pittsburgh area who visit Alma Illery or one of the other eight PCHS centers are getting high-quality health care, dismissing the notion that the uninsured or underinsured are receiving lower quality care. “That same great quality
health care is accessible right in the communities where we live and work, and a lot of us forget that, or we don’t know that,” Fields said. Supporting the construction of a new facility for PCHS is “very important for us as far as impacting the social determinants of health,” Fields added. GETTING TO THE GOAL Dr. Gloster told the Courier that as of May 11, more than $5 million had been raised towards the $20 million goal to construct the new facility. But he assured the Courier that the facility will be built. He said he’s received “promised interest” from a number of organizations and foundations, in addition to the Eden Hall Foundation’s large gift, the $1 million already granted by The Heinz Endowments, $750,000 from the PA Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program and $640,000 from the Health Resources and Ser-
vices Administration. Dr. Gloster said the new facility will provide the Homewood community with top-notch exam rooms, labs, imaging elements, physician offices, dental services, maternal services, behavioral health services and podiatry services. PCHS’ “Health Care for the Homeless” program will also be housed in the new facility. Currently, the Alma Illery Medical Center has 5 to 6 thousand patient visits per year. “We’re talking about some 45 years” PCHS has been in Homewood, Dr. Gloster told the Courier. “I came here as a new pediatrician in 1995 and just felt a calling and commitment to this community and the patients, and for those who needed it the most. We’re basically trying to make sure we’re meeting all the needs of the community from a community health perspective, and we’re absolutely committed to (Homewood’s) future.” ALMA ILLERY
‘HATE WILL NOT PREVAIL’ President Biden says ‘White supremacy is a poison’ after 10 Blacks killed in Buffalo
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side the Tops grocery store, May 17. “Hate will not prevail, White supremacy will not have the last word.” President Biden named all of the victims during his speech: “Celestine Chaney, 65, brain cancer survivor, churchgoer, bingo player, went to buy strawberries to make her favorite shortcake. Loving mother and grandmother; Roberta Drury, 32, beloved daughter and sister. Moved back home to take care of her broth-
er after his bone marrow transplant. She went to buy groceries for dinner. The center of attention who made everyone in the room laugh and smile when she walked in; Andre Mackniel, 53, worked at a restaurant, went to buy his 3-year-old son a birthday cake. His son celebrating a birthday, asking, ‘Where’s Daddy?’” President Biden continued: “Katherine Massey, 72, a writer, an advocate who dressed up in costumes at schools and cut the grass in the
park and helped in local elections. The glue of the family and the community; Margus Morrison, 52, school bus aide. Went to buy snacks for weekly movie night with the family, survived by his wife and three children and his stepdaughter. The center of their world; Heyward Patterson, 67, father, church deacon, fed the homeless at the soup kitchen. Gave rides to the grocery store for neighbors who needed help. Putting food in the trunk of others when he took his fi-
nal breath; Aaron Salter, 55, retired Buffalo police officer for three decades. Loved electric cars, a hero who gave his life to save others on a Saturday afternoon, and had that man (the shooter) not been wearing that bulletproof vest, a lot of lives would have been saved. A beloved father and husband; Geraldine Talley, 62, expert banker and known for her warm, gentle personality, a friend to everybody, a devoted mother and grandmother; Ruth Whitfield, 86, beloved wife,
mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sang in the church choir, caretaker of her husband, bringing him clean clothes, cutting his hair, holding his hand every day as she visited him in the nursing home. Heart as big as her head; Pearl Young, 77, a mother, grandmother, missionary of God, public school teacher who also ran a local food pantry. Loved singing, dancing and her family.” President Biden later remarked: “Jill (Biden) and I have come to stand
with you, and to the families, we have come to grieve with you. Now’s the time for people of all races, from every background, to speak up as a majority and American and reject White supremacy.” The president called White supremacy “a poison” and reiterated that, “We need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that the ideology of White supremacy has no place in America. None.”
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has plagued communities for decades.” Thai Le, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California’s Equity Research Institute; Edward Muña, project manager at the institute; Sarah Treuhaft, vice president of Research at PolicyLink, and Rasheedah Phillips, director of housing at PolicyLink; joined to author the study. They revealed that working-class households face a shrinking geography of opportunity in metro America. Across the 100 most populous metropolitan areas, the number of zip codes where the median market rents are affordable to low-income households declined 50 percent between 2013 and 2019 (from 17 percent of zip codes to 8 percent), according to the report. The authors noted that the trend of declining affordability was widespread. The number of neighborhoods with affordable median market rents shrunk in 81 metropolitan regions, remained approximately the same in 16 of them, and increased in only three regions. Further, Black and Latinx households have the fewest choices when it comes to affordable neighborhoods. In 2019, only 7 percent of zip codes in the top 100 metros had median market rents affordable to Black households at the median income for all Black households in the metro. For Latinx households at the median income, just 16 percent of zip codes had affordable median market rents.
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(NNPA)—At the onset of the pandemic, there wasn’t a single state, region, or county in America where a full-time worker earning the minimum wage could afford a two-bedroom rental home, and nearly half of Black and Latinx renters (and more than a third of all renters) were paying unaffordable rent, a new report has revealed. The National Equity Alliance released “The Shrinking Geography of Opportunity in Metro America,” this week, and found that the coronavirus pandemic continues to
The authors noted that the trend of declining affordability was widespread. both illuminate and deepen the challenges of structural racism and housing inequity in the United States. “While rent relief programs are sunsetting and rents are skyrocketing, millions of renters negatively impacted by the pandemic’s economic fallout face crushing rent debt, eviction, and homelessness,” the report’s authors wrote. “And the renters who have been hit the hardest are disproportionately people of color and people living on low incomes. This extreme precarity stems from a housing crisis that
BLACK HOUSEHOLDS experienced the steepest declines in affordable neighborhoods in the years preceding the pandemic.
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Is a postgraduate degree worth it? Is a postgraduate degree worth it? Would you advise someone to invest in an MBA where the costs can top $100,000? ~ Steve Damon says: You can never frown on the idea of higher education. The more you know, the more you grow as a person. More education should make you more marketable. Being more marketable increases both your job opportunities and your earning potential. More education, more skill, more knowhow is always good. It’s the $100,000 price tag you referenced that gives me pause. Does it make you nauseous at the idea of spending up to $100,000 for a graduate degree? It should! That’s a lot of money! Like all things in life, affordability has to be at the top of the discussion. I’d first recommend the person in pursuit of an MBA to look for cheaper options. I’m sure that one can find an MBA program cheaper than $100,000. What’s a good price you ask? According to Bankrate, the average MBA Program can range from $55,000 to $170,000. The price swing varies based on school type, full time or part-time student and whether or not you plan to include room and board or commute. Private Schools cost more than Public Schools. Room and Board can add up to be half of the total cost. Thinking thoroughly through the process of how to pursue an MBA Degree without going deep into debt is of paramount importance. That’s where the critical thinking skills you learned obtaining your undergraduate degree comes in handy. How do you cut costs? You can consider an online MBA program. You can consider a Public College over a Private College. You can work full time for a company who offers tuition advancement or tuition reimbursement as a part of its benefits package.
Most of the people I’ve talked to who have an MBA are proud of their accomplishments. However, many of those same people don’t believe having an MBA gave them the competitive edge society would have us to believe. The $100,000 question is this: How much would taking on the expense to obtain an MBA increase your “real earnings” not your “earning potential?” You can’t spend potential. That too requires some critical thinking. Put your thinking cap on Joe College. How much more do you realistically think you’ll earn after obtaining your MBA? ***** They want to pay $2.1mm in cash to build their forever home? They currently have a $7,000 per month income. Can they afford it? ~Article appeared in Marketwatch We have over $5 million in savings and earn nearly $7,000 a month. Should we spend over $2.1 million to build our dream home? We are thinking about building a modern home on 26 acres in the Texas Hill Country. We would pay cash; the estimated costs to build excluding the land is $2.1 million. Including land, it would be close to $3 million in value. We are retired and this would be our forever home and an investment. We have $3 million in retirement savings, a 401(k), stocks, bonds and cash, and the $2.1 million is in addition to this. We have a monthly income of close to $7,000 from bonds and pension. We are both approaching 65 years of age. We think this would be a better investment for the $2.1
million instead of putting it into the stock market or bond market. Damon says: This couple has done an AMAZING job managing their money. With over $5.1mm saved, they’re multi-millionaires. They did this on what appears to be a slightly better than average annual income. Their current income is $7,000 per month or $84,000 per year. I wonder what their salary was during their working years. How were they able to amass over 5.1mm? Their answer to that question would be a part of my recommendation. Keep doing what you’ve been doing! Clearly it worked! They think purchasing this house for $2.1mm in cash would be a better investment than investing that same money into stocks and bonds. I find it interesting that’s their rationale considering the fact it was because of them investing in the stock and bond market they’ve amassed enough money to write a check for $2.1mm to pay for a house. It will not be a better investment. I’ll give two reasons: 1. Although the housing market is booming right now, the average appreciation rate of a house is approximately 4 percent per year. Whereas, the average return on investment in the stock market is 10 percent per year. 2. Your primary residence isn’t an investment. It’s not generating an income. It’s a place to live. The question is can they afford it. You’d think if they can write a check for $2.1mm - $3mm to purchase the property in cash, surely they can afford it. With a current income of $7,000 per
month or $84,000 per year they cannot realistically maintain a $2.1mm house even if there’s no mortgage. I have guardrails I teach to ensure people don’t fall off track financially. With regards to housing, one of the guardrails is this. Purchase Price should not exceed 3-times your annual income. With an annual income of $84,000 per year, you’re looking at a purchase price of approximately $250,000. By paying cash, they can cheat up on the purchase price—but not by $1.85mm. Another guardrail is principal, interest, taxes, and insurance should not exceed 30 percent of your take home pay. With no mortgage, there’s no principal and interest. Only taxes and insurance. Monthly payments on taxes and insurance should not exceed $2,100 per month or 30 percent of $7,000. Per this article property taxes and Homeowners insurance will cost approximately $40,000 per year or $3,333.33 per month. In order to maintain, upkeep, and pay taxes and insurance on this $2.1mm home they’d be forced to liquidate the savings and investments they’ve worked hard to accumulate. I took a conservative position above for illustration purposes. I didn’t factor in income generated from investments. After taking into account income generated from the full $5.1mm in investments in addition to their $7,000 monthly income, their price range should be no more than $1mm. Even in TX, you can find a nice property for $1mm. More importantly, by keeping the purchase price at a more affordable $1mm, they can have a beautiful home, drive nice cars, travel the world, give to charities they believe in, leave an inheritance to loved ones, and not worry about outliving their savings.
(Damon Carr, Money Coach can be reached @ 412-216-1013 or visit his website @ www.damonmoneycoach.com)
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Tips about taxation and jumpstarting a business by Malik Brown RollingOut.com
(BlackPressUSA)—Yvette Caslin is the CEO of The Pinkprint, which helps individuals form a plan when filing taxes, build credit through business, develop a tax strategy for business entities and repair credit. How did you start your journey? I started my journey 20 years ago in media and entertainment. In 2016, I started doing a little bit of media and PR communications, just trying to try to see what would be my next step when it was time to actually make the change. In 2018, I took a leap of faith and started a financial services business. In 2020, I actually founded my business called The Pinkprint which is a financial services firm. I got my education in taxation, and I’m working to be a legitimately licensed tax preparer where I can represent people who are behind in their taxes or have a complex tax situation. I got my certification in 2020 and I
started my licensing with the IRS in 2021. Why is it important for consumers to learn about taxes? Because you really work very hard for your money and unfortunately, the middle class gets hit the most when it comes to taxation. When the Trump administration did the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, he leveled the playing field for business owners and individuals that are 1099 employees. He leveled the playing field for them to really take advantage of taxation and actu-
ally getting these deductions and not being able to keep a lot of their own money. That’s where I come in. It’s your job to hire a professional that’s going to work with you hand in hand and make sure you plan properly and strategize properly, to get most of your money back that they’ve taken from you. What are some important things for people to know when starting a business? First, you need to know what is the goal and the mission of the business. The main thing is, how are you going to be doing your accounting?
The biggest thing is having an accounting method. You shouldn’t mix funds with your personal account and your business, you need to have a separate bank account for that. If you’re going to be in a business, get a PayPal account. Additionally, you want to know what type of entity you’re going to be. Are you going to be a single-member LLC? Will you be an S Corp, a C Corp or just be a sole proprietor where you don’t even want to bother with an LLC? You have to understand the entity that you’re in, and you want to be in an entity that is the best tax benefit to you. That information will come from hiring a tax professional, as well as having an attorney to do your paperwork properly. (The post Yvette Caslin shares tips about taxation and jumpstarting a business appeared first on Rolling Out.)
YVETTE CASLIN IS THE CEO of The Pinkprint, which helps individuals form a plan when filing taxes, build credit through business, develop a tax strategy for business entities and repair credit.
America’s major cities are pricing out Black residents MAJOR CITIES FROM B1
Black households experienced the steepest declines in affordable neighborhoods in the years preceding the pandemic. Between 2013 and 2019 —even as the economy was recovering and median incomes increased for households of all races and ethnicities—the number of zip codes with median market rents affordable to median-income Black households
decreased by 14 percent. The majority of neighborhoods affordable for Black, Latinx, and low-income households are lower opportunity neighborhoods. Among the zip codes with affordable rental housing for the median-income Black household, 82 percent were either “low” or “very low” —the bottom two quintiles on the Child Opportunity Index—while only 38 percent of zip codes affordable for the medi-
an-income White household were “low” or “very low” opportunity. “Although this analysis is based on pre-pandemic data, all signs indicate that the trend of shrinking housing opportunity continues, and, if anything, conditions have worsened,” the authors determined. They noted that in 2021, rents increased by at least 10 percent in 149 metropolitan regions, whereas only three metros experienced that lev-
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el of rent growth in 2019. Lower income renters, low-wage workers, and small businesses serving communities of color were hardest hit by the pandemic’s economic fallout. The report highlighted that nearly six million renter households are currently behind on rent—about double the pre-pandemic baseline. “Achieving racial equity and a just economy requires changing this paradigm and ensuring
that households living on low incomes can live in affordable homes in neighborhoods that support their health and economic success,” the authors determined. They concluded: “The crisis of housing affordability remains an urgent challenge for communities across the country, and it is being driven by both national and local forces. “As our analysis shows, there is a growing gap in access to affordable
housing and high-quality neighborhoods for working-class renters and renters of color. “Protecting renters at risk of eviction and ensuring all households have access to safe and affordable housing is key to an equitable recovery and a strong economy built on shared prosperity.”
(Stacy M. Brown is NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent.)
Lisa Cook confirmed as first Black woman on Federal Reserve Board by Stacy M. Brown For New Pittsburgh Courier
(NNPA)—Michigan State University Economics Professor Lisa Cook is the latest Biden-Harris administration nominee to break the glass ceiling, this time on the U.S. Federal Reserve Board. Cook, well-known for her work on racial and gender equality, won Senate confirmation as the first Black woman to serve on the Fed Board in the agency’s 109year history. The history-making moment required a tie-breaking vote in the Senate from
Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Black woman to hold her position. Each of the Senate’s 50 GOP members voted against Cook, while all 50 Democrats and Harris cast ballots in favor of the nomination. “The Fed Board needs governors who understand how the economy works for Americans across race, gender, and class. Dr. Cook’s deep expertise makes her exceptionally qualified to serve,” Michele Holder, president of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, wrote in a
statement. An adviser on the Biden-Harris and ObamaBiden transition teams, Cook will help set fiscal policy on the Fed Board. “I was proud to cast my vote for Dr. Cook,” Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock stated. “Her decades of experience as an economist and her Georgian sense of fairness will help promote balance and innovation to strengthen our economy,” Warnock concluded. (Stacy M. Brown is NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent.)
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OPINION
NEW PITTSBURGH COURIER
MAY 18-24, 2022
B3
A woman’s world, too!
Guest Editorial Right-wing, leftwing, and center Recently, the great innovator/billionaire/entrepreneur Elon Musk plopped down over $44 billion big ones to purchase Twitter. This has made a lot of people who espouse “free speech” happy, apparently because they believe he will restore that famous commodity once he takes control of the social media giant. Curiously, different people are claiming Musk as their own in wildly contradictive stances. Right-wing conservatives applaud him because they anticipate that he will reinstate former president Donald Trump’s Twitter account. Left-wing observers also applaud Musk, thinking he will champion their rights. This is confusing; free speech is not a left-wing or right-wing issue, it is an American Constitutional issue, but not necessarily from a private enterprise standpoint! Musk’s actions have stirred a firestorm of controversy surrounding the notions of “leftists,” “rightists,” and “freedoms.” Ultimately, everything in our known 3-dimensional universe can be broken into three main components: left, right, or center. The triangle is ubiquitous in logos of corporations, which harken back to the notion of the “trinity.” This can also be found in one way or another in many religions. The human biological system is also divided in this manner. The right ear and left ear of the human physical anatomy result in stereophonic, or blended sound; the two eyes blend to create a third visage point. To test that out, close one eye and observe an object, and then close the opposite eye while opening the previously closed eye and watch the object appear to move its position. The totality of observation requires two vantage points that result in a composite (third) point. The key here is that no one point is the truth in itself; there is always a blended reality. This last point is crucial for the lives of Americans, and especially for African Americans. We are all dependent upon the synthesis of opposing viewpoints in an attempt to perceive what we call “truth.” With that said, let’s examine what is meant in politics when a person is identified as left-wing, right-wing, or neutral. One definition of “left wing” is “the liberal, socialist, or radical section of a political party or system.” A definition of “right wing” is “the conservative or reactionary section of a political party or system.” Pundits often conclude that there is actually no such thing as a “neutral” stance in politics, i.e., that everyone can be found somewhere on the left or the right. If we look more closely at the operative words in each definition, it will give clues to the actual psychological mindset behind the words. In the left-wing definition, when we say “liberal,” we’re citing “willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one’s own; open to new ideas.” In a political context: “relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise.” The operative word in the right-wing definition is “conservative” which means “averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values.” In a political context: “favoring free enterprise, private ownership, and socially traditional ideas.” When we juxtapose the ideas of the “left” and “right” certain points become obvious. The common denominator of BOTH is the quest for “free enterprise.” What is problematic for Black Americans, however, is that the embrace of “conservatism” is the idea of wanting to keep things as they have always been. For Blacks that means wanting to maintain the system of slavery, Jim Crow, and oppression. In this regard, African Americans would never, ever reach real parity in America, because, as it stands, it was never an objective for Black people when viewed from a conservative viewpoint! The issue of right, left, and center can boil down to this: the left wants personal freedoms, the right wants the status quo, and centrists are in the mythical middle. According to the New York Post, Elon Musk has said that he is liberal, but “woke progressive” extremists make him look right-wing. If so, it will be interesting to see how this plays out on his Twitter platform, and how Black people will be impacted. Free enterprise is one possibility, since both conservatives AND liberals desire it. What is certain is that either the right, or the left, will be disappointed unless Musk is truly a centrist! A Luta Continua! (Reprinted from the Chicago Crusader)
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(TriceEdneyWire.com)—Margaret Mitchell’s famous/infamous heroine/villainess (you choose) of Gone With the Wind, Scarlett O’Hara, offered two memorable thoughts which she applied to her own circumstance. Scarlett said: Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was a woman’s lot. She also acknowledged that it was “a man’s world,” and she “accepted it as such.” “The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness.” Today, women more rightly deserve the praise that Scarlett could have never earned or claimed. Increasing numbers of contemporary women live out the observation of James Brown when he sang, “This is a man’s world, but it wouldn’t be NOTHING without a woman or a girl.” In Scarlett’s era, it could be said, “War, war, war. This war talk is spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I got so bored I could scream.” In today’s Ukraine, women are not concerned about spoiling all of the fun. Women there are engaged and committed to bringing Putin’s War to as swift an end as possible, ending the current suffering of all Ukrainians, and maintaining the spirit of nationalism that encourages and sustains Ukrainian resolve.
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Commentary Despite the apparent dangers, at the end of April, American actress and UN Goodwill Ambassador for Refugees, Angelina Jolie, visited Ukraine as a witness to the immoral war Russia is prosecuting against its innocent neighbor. Although she did not pick up a gun, Angelina’s presence gave comfort and emotional support to those defending their country. She could have remained in the safety of her home in the United States, but she chose action and went to Kyiv! Thank you, Angelina! Second in succession to the Office of the President of the United States, is the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi. Evaluated by friends and adversaries alike as one of the most effective and powerful Speakers in the history of the United States, she endures the ‘flame throwing,’ ‘blame games,’ and the daily barrage of Republican misrepresentations (lies) as she works to improve our nation for all of our citizens. Like Jolie, Speaker Pelosi could have remained in the comfort and
safety of her home. (Were it not for the lesson that the Republicans and their MAGA crew taught us on January 6, 2021, I would also suggest the comfort and safety of her Washington, DC office.) Yet, with all of the inherent dangers, Speaker Pelosi led a delegation to Kyiv to give Ukraine the reassurance of the support and solidarity with the United States. President Biden selected The Honorable Linda Thomas-Greenfield to represent the United States as the Ambassador to the United Nations and as our representative on the UN Security Council. With grace and adept diplomacy, she clearly expresses the displeasure of our nation in all matters of conflict in Ukraine. Both she and I grew up in Louisiana under humble circumstances, but that didn’t prevent either of us from caring about justice and ethical conduct or preparing ourselves to be engaged in the pursuit of world peace. Again, I quote Scarlett when she said, “Burdens are for the shoulders strong enough to carry them.” I’m sure Scarlett would be overjoyed to know that women of skill and character no longer have to stand in the shadows of men. We are not just their helpers. We are leaders in every aspect that God has given us the capability of serving.
Our disappearing rights (TriceEdneyWire.com)—When the Supreme Court overturned Section Five of the Voting Rights Act, it struck a blow to voting rights. No longer did states with a history of discrimination have to submit their plans to make electoral changes to the department of Justice. Instead, voters and advocacy organizations that experienced limitations of their rights had to go to court to prove that discrimination. Though this placed a burden on voting rights advocates, litigators, and the Transformative Justice Coalition’s, Barbara Arnwine has gone from state to state fighting unequal, discriminatory voting laws and voter suppression. TJC first produced its Map of Shame in 2016, focusing on ways states change voting laws to keep voter turnout down. The 45th President’s narrow victory over Hilary Rodham Clinton was partly a function of low voter turnout and a flawed Clinton campaign, and it was also a function of voter suppression. Voting rights activists and volunteers ensured President Biden’s victory in 2020, and the result has been a more aggressive attempt to curtail voting rights. In Georgia, it is even illegal to offer a bottle of water to someone standing in line for hours on a hot day! The effects of these curtailed rights will be seen in the 2022 midterm and 2024 Presidential elections unless people push back with the same intensity as they did in 2020. Just as our voting rights are disappearing, so also are women’s rights to comprehensive health care. Someone leaked a draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In 2018 Mississippi passed the Gestational Age Act, which banned abortion after 15 weeks. The Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the only licensed abortion clinic in Mississippi, filed a lawsuit in federal court and requested a temporary restraining order to prevent lawmakers from enforcing the law. The restraining order was granted, so the State Health Officer, Thomas Dobbs, took the case to the
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Commentary Supreme Court. The Court is likely to overturn Roe v. Wade and decide that Mississippi’s abortion restriction is constitutional. The court wants to go even further than that. In the leaked opinion, Justice Alito wrote, “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled.” He and four other conservative justices – Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barretthave been planning this moment since the 45th President appointed them to the court. Arguably Gorsuch and Kavanaugh could be charged with perjury and tried for lying under oath to the United States Senate as both of them acknowledged the precedent of Roe and pledged to honor its precedent. In reacting to the May 1 leak, Chief Justice John Roberts described it as a “singular and egregious breach of trust that is an effort to the Court and the community of public servants who work here.” The first breach of trust came when Gorsuch and Kavanaugh lied under oath. It is profoundly hypocritical for Roberts to speak of trust when defending liars. Poor women and women of color are most likely to be impacted if Roe is overturned. Women outside Jackson now have to drive hundreds of miles to get to Mississippi’s only abortion provider. In addition to the fee for abortion services, women may need to finance transportation, an overnight stay, and more. Wealthy women will get what they want, no matter what the law. Before Roe, these women went to Mexico or found their way around the law. Poor women have no such options. Restricting the right to comprehensive health care also constrains
women’s economic self-sufficiency. Research shows that the availability of contraception increases women’s labor force participation, which is good for the economy. Now some conservatives are considering restricting access to contraception. But contraception makes women’s investment in education and employment more likely. Emboldened by the many ways legislators have chipped away rights guaranteed by Roe and Casey, legislators in Mississippi are proposing laws to declare that life begins at conception, outlawing abortions after “life.” In Louisiana, legislators are proposing laws to define abortion as murder. All of this anti-abortion legislation is an attack on women’s rights. Most Americans support abortion rights, in many cases with some restrictions. The Supreme Court is tone-deaf to the people’s sentiments and, more importantly, to 50-year precedents. Roe was decided based on privacy rights, which keep the courts out of the bedroom and away from people’s health status. Reversing Roe removes privacy rights, not just the right to choose. What’s next? Marriage equality? Further erosion of voting rights? Interracial marriage? What else? The difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats plan by Presidential cycle, while Republicans plan for decades. This triumph of conservatism has been planned since Ronald Reagan was elected President in 1980. Forty years later, hard-fought gains are being lost, and our rights are disappearing. We are moving back to the 1950s or, given our economic situation, perhaps the 1930s, moving backwards as surely as we did when parts of the Voting Rights Act were overturned. People are taking their anger and disappointment to the streets, but maybe a decade too late.
(Dr. Julianne Malveaux is an economist, author, and Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at Cal State LA. Juliannemalveaux. com.)
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Article a disservice to a wonderful young man Dear Editor: The article that Aubrey Bruce wrote on Dwayne Haskins did a disservice to the wonderful young man that he was. Bruce dredged up so much negative and wrongly implied that Haskins had a domestic violence charge against him. Haskins, in fact, should have been lauded for showing great restraint during the incident that Bruce mentions. Haskins was NEVER accused of domestic violence. Aubrey Bruce got it wrong! Having just spent 8 days with him before his death, my husband Judge Dwayne Woodruff and I viewed him as a role model for young men/his teammates and we were very excited with the possibility that a man of his intellect and character would be leading the Steelers as QB#1.
From what was written in Bruce’s article, we can only assume that Bruce never spoke directly with Haskins; for if he had, we are certain that he would have been thoroughly impressed with him. Haskins was humble and wise beyond his years. Haskins was the only current/young Steeler to give his testimony on the Steelers cruise before a large audience of Steelers Fans; his words were thoughtful, inspiring & touching beyond words. He spoke of how his Dad and Mom had nurtured him and his sister to love God and love others. Haskins was engaging and won the Fan Favorite award on the cruise (beating out finalist, Santonio Holmes). He was very deserving of those accolades. Haskins wife Kalabrya also spoke of how he insisted that she finish her degree from Mich-
igan State and how he typed up all her notes, helped her study for tests and was supporting her in starting a business in Pittsburgh. We sat across the aisle from the couple on the flight from Miami, back to Pittsburgh late on April 3rd. I asked him to autograph my Terrible Towel and he obliged immediately. Remembering Kalabrya’s words about him, in addition to our observance of him during the entire cruise, made it evident that he would have capably led the Steelers and become a fan favorite in the City of Pittsburgh. I’m so disappointed that he did not get better treatment from the Pittsburgh Courier. Joy Maxberry Woodruff Pittsburgh
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Abortion bans are part of a larger agenda (TriceEdneyWire.com)—“At a time when open racism was becoming unfashionable, these politicians needed a more high-minded issue, one that would not compel them to surrender their fundamental political orientation. And of course. the beauty of defending a fetus is that the fetus demands nothing in return—housing, health care, education—so it’s a fairly low-risk advocacy.” – religious historian Randall Balmer One of the enduring myths of American politics is that evangelical Christians were spurred en masse to political action by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, which protects the legal right to abortion. The truth is much uglier. Right-wing panic over legal abortion was sparked—and stoked—by panic over the advancement of civil rights and women’s rights. And the effort to roll back reproductive rights is part of a larger agenda to reverse the progress of the 20th Century and re-establish White male dominance over our nation’s political and social institutions. The late Rev. Jerry Falwell, who founded the right-wing Moral Majority, did not speak publicly against abortion until 1978, five years after Roe. The Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution in 1971 calling for the legalization of abortion, re-affirming it in 1974 and 1976. Focus on the Family founder James Dobson said in 1973 that the Bible is silent on abortion and that “a developing embryo or fetus is not regarded as a full human being.” No, the Supreme Court decision that galvanized the religious right was not Roe v. Wade, but Green v. Connally, which had its own origins in Brown v. Board of Education—68 years ago this week— which outlawed racial segregation in public schools. Resistance to integration following Brown was so strong that Whites-only private schools known as “segregation academies” sprung up throughout the south. Falwell, who famously referred to the civil rights movement as “civil wrongs” established his own segregation academy, Lynchburg Christian School, in 1967. In 1971, the Court ruled in Green v. Connally— and affirmed later that year in Coit v. Green—that a private school which practiced racial discrimination could not be eligible for a tax exemption. Bob Jones University, whose founder declared that integration was “contrary to the Word of God,” was especially energetic in fighting the ruling. The revocation of Bob Jones tax-exemption in 1976 “alerted the Christian school community about what could happen with government interference”
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To Be Equal Bob Jones administrator Elmer L. Rumminger, told Balmer. “That was really the major issue that got us all involved.” Right-wing activists, particularly Falwell and Heritage Foundation co-founder Paul Weyrich, saw an opportunity to harness the surging racial anxiety among conservative Christians into political action. “But Falwell and Weyrich, having tapped into the ire of evangelical leaders, were also savvy enough to recognize that organizing grassroots evangelicals to defend racial discrimination would be a challenge,” Balmer wrote. “It had worked to rally the leaders, but they needed a different issue if they wanted to mobilize evangelical voters on a large scale.” Even in the late 1970s, organized opposition to legal abortion was mainly the domain of Roman Catholics. But the success of Republican candidates opposed to legal abortion in the 1978 Senate elections demonstrated to right-wing political activists the issue’s potential to motivate conservative evangelical voters. In the 1980 Presidential election, evangelical voters flocked to Republican Ronald Reagan, who as Governor of California had signed the nation’s most liberal abortion law in 1967, over fellow evangelical Jimmy Carter, who publicly stated his personal opposition to abortion. The movement to criminalize abortion has never extricated itself from its racist origins. “Whites who score high on measures of racial resentment and racial grievance are far more likely to support strict limits on abortion than Whites who score low on these measures,” political scientist Alan Abramowitz told the New York Times. White supremacist groups are among the movement’s most passionate supporters. At this year’s March for Life rally in January, members of the white nationalist Patriot Front distributed cards reading, “America belongs to its fathers, and it is owed to its sons. The restoration of American sovereignty must follow the restoration of the American Family.” In a letter, earlier this week urging members of the Senate to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act, other Urban League leaders and I pointed out that overturning Roe would put Black women in particular danger. “Black women are 2.5 times more likely to die as a result of childbirth than White women. Meanwhile, due to racialized income and wealth disparities, inequitable access to medical care, and the other insidious ways structural racism manifests, people of color are more likely to require abortion care and are less likely to be able to afford out-of-state travel to obtain care if it is made illegal in their state,” we wrote. “Therefore, it is not only a gender justice issue but a racial justice issue to codify the right to an abortion into federal law and ensure all pregnant persons have the ability to make personal health decisions.” As House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn tweeted, “We have seen #SCOTUS gut voting rights. Other decisions like Brown v. Board [desegregation of schools], Loving v. Virginia [allowing interracial marriage], and Obergefell v. Hodges [upholding same-sex marriage] could hang in the balance. “History teaches us that if a thing has happened before, it can happen again.” “We must fight to reclaim rights that have been lost and defend rights that are in danger.”
What money can’t buy? Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow along with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Chair of the Presidential Initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, recently announced Harvard has ignored the painful truth their university was shaped by slavery. According to Harvard’s President, slavery was fundamental to New England’s economy during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Slavery was legal in Massachusetts, where Harvard is based, until 1783. By that time, Harvard was around 150 years old. Harvard’s leaders, faculty, and staff enslaved more than 70 people of African and Native American descent. The labor of enslaved people also enriched donors to the university. Those riches helped Harvard expand its infrastructure, grow its faculty and student body, and build its reputation. Prominent Harvard leaders and professors also defended slavery, justified segregation, and promoted racial hierarchy and discrimination. Harvard’s President insisted that acknowledging this truth is not enough. Harvard has a moral obligation to take action because “slavery’s legacies persist in racial disparities in education, health, employment, income, wealth and the criminal justice system. The question before us now is how best to reckon with these realities and atone for our past.” To initiate the process, Harvard pledged $100 million to study its ties to slavery. Harvard’s President concluded, “We are not naïve …We know our efforts
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Check It Out may be met with criticism and cynicism. Some will insist those attempts to remedy past wrongs are unnecessary. Others, dedicated to specific forms of redress such as one-time payments in reparations, will argue that any other approach is insufficient. Yet we believe there are many paths forward for institutions implicated in slavery.” Immediately, the 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones remarked that $100 million was way too low. Her reaction was cynical, but it does bring into question how much money will redress the past. In his book What Money Can’t Buy, political philosopher Michael J. Sandel stressed that when we decide that certain goods may be bought and sold, we decide, at least implicitly, that it is appropriate to treat them as commodities. But not all goods are properly valued in this way. Some good things in life are corrupted or degraded if turned into commodities. Therefore, before we attach a price tag to anything, we have to first decide how to value it. Harvard’s President said the university had a moral obligation to atone for the past, but what Harvard actually values is forgiveness.
For decades, slavery has been referred to as America’s “original sin”, but this analogy is misleading. In Christian theology, God’s son pays the price for original sin, and humanity is saved and forgiven, but the actions of God’s son can’t be replicated. That means no human being or human institution can save themselves from sin, nor can they pay to have their sins forgiven. When slavery is made analogous to “original sin”, it misleads individuals to believe a payment is possible. In the situation at hand, there is no savior or redeemer to pay for the sins of Harvard’s previous generation, leaving the current administration with the misconception they can purchase forgiveness for their predecessors and become born again through the process. The sole purpose of equating slavery to “original sin” was to place an eternal wrong on America’s institutions. Harvard doesn’t understand the impossibility of forgiveness turn’s America’s “original sin” into an “unpardonable sin”. The moment an American institution decides it’s morally obligated to redress its participation in the “unpardonable sin” of slavery, that institution, whether it realizes it or not, has also declared to be held accountable for a never-ending grievance in which the institution will never be pardoned and will always be expected to pay more than it has pledged. It’s unwise to be frivolous with money, but it’s unforgivable to be unaware of what money can’t buy.
Brown v. Board of Education: When the Supreme Court rejected a racist system (TriceEdneyWire.com)—The U.S. Supreme Court wasn’t always a threat to civil rights. Almost 70 years ago this month, the Court issued its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, one of the most important in our history. It was unanimous. And it was a glorious moment. Our highest court affirmed the constitutional promise of equality. In Brown, the court rejected the “separate but equal” doctrine that some states used to justify legally enforced racial segregation in public schools. But defenders of Jim Crow’s separate schools for Black and White children rallied to defend the racist system. Opposition was particularly strong in Virginia. One of the cases the court combined as it heard Brown v. Board of Education had come out of Virginia. After they lost in court, state officials organized a campaign of “massive resistance” to the ruling. The state legislature even rejected a local control option that would allow school districts to decide that Black and White students could attend schools together. But under the state’s massive resistance plan, public schools were closed to avoid complying with court orders to desegregate. Some county officials just shut down their public schools completely. The state even funded the establishment of private schools that were only open to White students. It took years, and more Supreme Court rulings in 1964 and 1968, for desegregation to take hold across the state. But resistance did not end there. When the federal government moved to deny charitable tax status to private “segregation academies,” many southern White evangelical leaders were outraged and began mobilizing to build political power. And build it they have.
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Commentary After years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1982 that the federal government had the authority to revoke the charitable tax status of fundamentalist Bob Jones University over the school’s racially discriminatory policies. That was an 8-1 ruling. The one dissenter from the Bob Jones ruling was Justice William Rehnquist. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan nominated him to become Chief Justice. From that position, Rehnquist helped lead the Court in a harmful shift toward the Far Right. Today, the long-term legal and political movement of the Far Right has delivered us a Supreme Court majority indifferent, if not hostile, to voting rights. We have a Supreme Court majority shaped by a movement that looks longingly back to the days when “states’ rights” to discriminate trumped the federal government’s ability to protect civil rights and address issues like education and poverty. Today’s Supreme Court majority is on the verge of overturning the nearly 50-year-old ruling in Roe v. Wade. That will let states make criminals out of people seeking abortions and the caregivers who serve them. We all know who will suffer the most: vulnerable people of color, LGBTQ people, those without the time and money to find care far from their homes. Roe is not the only precedent the far
right-wing legal movement is planning to reverse. And the Supreme Court is not the only place we are hearing echoes of massive resistance. Politicians like Glenn Youngkin, Virginia’s new governor, are building power by generating distrust and hostility toward public schools over teaching about racism. On the campaign trail last year, Youngkin embraced a dishonest far-right scare campaign against “critical race theory.” When he took office, his first executive order was to ban “inherently divisive concepts” from public schools—shorthand for truth telling about our history and our present. Across the country, far right-wing political groups are working overtime to mobilize fear and resentment as political weapons. They are running candidates to take over local school boards. They are passing laws to whitewash our past, restrict teaching, and shut down efforts to make our schools safe and welcoming places for all students. They want to divert public education funds into private religious schools and conservative homeschoolers. We cannot allow them to win. Brown v. Board of Education is an important part of our history. So is the shameful campaign of massive resistance to equality. So is the persistence of the brave students, parents, and advocates who kept up the fight for fairness and educational opportunity in the 1950s and 1960s—and are still doing so today. Our students deserve to learn the truth about our history—and our present-day inequities. And all of us deserve political leaders and courts that will uphold our rights. Whether we get them is up to us.(Ben Jealous serves as president of People For the American Way and Professor of the Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.)
Roe v. Wade, voter suppression, and ‘we’ the voters The current uproar over the leaked draft of the U.S. Supreme Court’s anticipated Decision on Abortion Rights is another example of the Republican Right Wing effort to eliminate democracy under the cover of the very Constitution which provides all our democratically protected rights. We have seen the attack on Voting Rights by the actions of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate who refused to support not only the Voting Rights Act but also the John Lewis Act and the legislation coming out of the George Floyd murder. These are the same Republicans who we now know plotted to overthrow the U.S. Government on January 6, 2021, with their efforts to stop the certification of President Joseph Biden as President of the United States. These are the same Senators who prevented former President Obama from making a United States Supreme Court nomination while these same Republican Senators rushed through two conservative nominations who are now a part of the long-awaited overthrow of Roe v. Wade. What we do know is that Primary Season is upon us and that we all have a chance to make some choices and changes if we look closely at who is running for what offices around this country and
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Commentary in our own backyard. “We” the people, must not lose control of the U.S. House of Representatives, nor the U.S. Senate. The Senate hangs on “one” vote tied at 50/50 because of the two Independents that vote with the Democrats. We now know that what we saw with Voter Suppression laws in over 22 States was just the beginning. Roe v. Wade is the second step in the attack on Civil Rights following Voter Suppression. Next, we are seeing references to changing such Constitutional rights as the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection and Due Process guarantees, as well as provisions of the Civil rights Act. We should not get overwhelmed with the magnitude of the attacks but rather understand and remember that our votes represent the solutions to preserving our rights. Congress, using the legislative process, has the ability to reverse
and codify, if necessary, any Decisions that the United States Supreme Court makes. This is the strength of our separation of powers under the Constitution. But that can only happen if we have the votes in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. If we return to the idea of killing the “Filibuster Rule” in the Senate, making it no longer necessary to have 60 votes instead of 50 plus one, with the Vice President as the tiebreaker, then we could get about the business of governance. President Biden did not fight hard enough to break the Filibuster and he knows better than most having spent 38 years in the U.S. Senate. The Democrats in the Senate cannot be so afraid of losing control of the Senate in the next election, that they allow McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, to continue to control the Senate because he controls the Filibuster. “We” the people, must follow the example of the people of the State of Georgia and realize that “All Black Votes Matter” and must be voted and counted if we are to survive the lynching and extermination that a few have planned for so many of us. Where do you stand?
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Estate of ANTOINE SONNY MCCLAIN (deceased) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, No. 022106395 of 2021, Layla McClain Extr., 5359 Broad Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15224 Estate of JOYCE BURKINSHAW, deceased, of Pittsburgh, No. 022202854. Christopher Robert Burkinshaw, Administrator, 95 1st Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15229 or Peter B. Lewis, Neighborhood Legal Services, 928 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. Estate of JOSEPHINE BOBINSKI, deceased, of Pittsburgh, No. 021603886. John Bobinski, Administrator, 131 Linnview Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15210 or Peter B. Lewis, Neighborhood Legal Services, 928 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
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ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA May 12, 2022 The Office of the County Controller of Allegheny County, Room 104, Court House, Pittsburgh, PA, will receive separate and sealed Bids on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 A.M. until 2:00PM and FROM 10:00 A.M. until 11:00 A.M. prevailing local time, Wednesday, June 8, 2022, and a representative of the Department of Public Works will open and read the Bids in the Conference Room 1, County Court House, Pittsburgh, PA, one half hour later, 11:30 o’clock A.M., for the following: SOUTH PARK FAIRGROUNDS SANITARY SEWER REHABILITATION PROJECT SOUTH PARK TOWNSHIP COUNTY PROJECT No. ZCSP-SANS As a prospective bidder please note the following general Project information regarding: Pre Bid Information, Bidding Requirements, and Contract Conditions. See the Project Manual for detailed information, responsibilities and instructions. PRE BID INFORMATION: Purchase and/or view the Project Manual and Drawings at the Office of the Contract Manager, Room 504, County Office Building, Pittsburgh, PA. The non refundable charge for the Proposal and a disk containing the Specifications and Drawings is $107.00 including sales tax. The Contract Manager will accept only check or money order to the “COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY” in that amount and WILL NOT ACCEPT CASH OR EXTEND CREDIT. Prospective bidders may request to have bid documents mailed. An additional fee of $16.05 including tax, for handling costs for each requested proposal must be paid in advance. The fee must be received at the Office of the Contract Manager prior to the mailing of any documents. BIDDING REQUIREMENTS: The County requires pre-qualification of bidders, including subcontractors, as specified in Section 102.01 of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Specifications, Publication No. 408, 2020 Edition, Change No. 4, Effective April 1, 2022 on this project. Submit Proposal on the supplied form in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders and Specifications; include the following documents with the Bid Form, ALONG WITH ONE COMPLETE PHOTOCOPIED SET OF THE PROPOSAL: • Bid Security certified check or surety company bond on County’s form to the order of/or running to the County of Allegheny in the amount of five (5%) percent of the Bid as evidence that you, the Bidder, will accept and carry out the conditions of the Contract in case of award. The County will accept only bonds written by Surety Companies acceptable on Federal Bonds per the current Federal Register Circular 570. Federal Register Circular 570 is available for inspection in the Contract Office, Room 504, County Office Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. • Bidder Certification of Pre-Qualification, Classification and Work Capacity • List of Subcontractors • Statement of Joint Venture Participation • MBE And WBE Goals Attainment Certification (ONLY NECESSARY IF YOU CANNOT MEET THE SPECIFIED MBE AND WBE GOALS.) • MBE/WBE Subcontractor and Supplier Commitment and Solicitation Sheets • Work Sheet Required Amount Performed By Contractor (Non-Federal Projects) THE COUNTY WILL REJECT BIDS THAT DO NOT INCLUDE THE EXECUTED DOCUMENTS SPECIFIED ABOVE WITH THE BID FORM. You may not withdraw your bid for a period of Sixty (60) days after the scheduled closing time for receipt of bids. The County Manager reserves the right to reject any and all bids or waive any informality in the bidding. CONTRACT CONDITIONS: In accordance with the provisions of the “Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act” of August 15, 1961, P.L. 987, as Department of Labor and Industry, the prevailing minimum wage predetermination requirements as set forth in the Attachments apply to this Project. The anticipated notice to proceed is August 1, 2022. The project completion date is 90 days from the date the Notice to Proceed is issued. The County of Allegheny hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this Advertisement, minority business enterprises / women business enterprises [MBE/WBE] will be afforded the full opportunity to submit bids in response to this advertisement and the County will not discriminate against minority and women business enterprises on the grounds of race, sex, color or national origin in consideration for an award. It is a condition of the bidding process/contract that all responsive bidders / contractors shall follow the minority business enterprises and women business enterprises [MBE/WBE] procedures set forth in the project manual/contract documents. For contracting questions contact the Contracts Division, at 412-350-7646. For technical questions contact Jean Statler, P.E., Project Manager, at 412-350-5927. Tracy Royston Acting Controller County of Allegheny ADVERTISEMENT THE TOWN OF McCANDLESS ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA Sealed Bids will be received by THE TOWN OF McCANDLESS, Department of Public Works, 9957 Grubbs Road, Wexford, PA 15090, for the following: Devlin Park Tennis Court Reconstruction The reconstructing and conversion of the current exterior court facility to accommodate four pickleball courts. This work will include the removal of all fence fabric, removal of several fencing posts and footings, and all tennis court netting posts and foundations. The contractor will excavate an area (approx. 12’ X 126’) for addition court surface. Install two inches (2”) of HMA binder material followed by one- and one-half inches (1 ½”) of HMA surface course. The installation of new fence posts and fence fabric where specified and reinstallation of removed fence fabric, gates, and hardware over existing fence posts. New tennis and pickleball court net sleeves, posts, and footings will be installed. The final stage involves the application of surfacer, two coats of acrylic color, and line striping. The contractor will clean the site and repair/seed damaged landscape areas All Bids must be in the hands of Jeff Schoeneman, Superintendent of Public Works, not later than 10:00 A.M., prevailing time, Friday, June 10, 2022, and will be publicly opened and read at that time in The Town of McCandless Public Works Building located at 9957 Grubbs Road, Wexford, PA 15090. Specifications may be obtained at the Town of McCandless, Department of Public Works Office, 9957 Grubbs Road, Wexford PA 15090. Bids shall be delivered in a sealed envelope and clearly marked on the outside with the words “The Town of McCandless Tennis Court Reconstruction” Bids to receive consideration must be accompanied by a Certified Check or Bidder’s Bond from a Surety Company authorized to do business in Pennsylvania, made to the order of THE TOWN OF McCANDLESS, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pennsylvania in an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the Bid as a guarantee that, if the Bid is accepted, the successful Bidder will enter into an Agreement within 15 days after Notice of the Award of the Contract. A Non-Collusion Affidavit must accompany each bid. The Bids must be made to The Town of McCandless, and shall remain firm for a period of sixty (60) days. No Bidder may withdraw his Bid during the sixty (60) day period without forfeiting his Bid guarantee except as permitted by law. Prevailing Wages are required to be paid on this project. Performance and Labor and Material Payment Bonds, along with Public Liability and Property Damage Certificates of Insurance in the amounts specified and with the Town of McCandless identified as an additional insured, as well as Certificates of Workmen’s Compensation must be filed with the executed Agreement. The Town reserves the right to reject any or all Bids, or any part thereof, for any reason, and also reserves the right to waive any informality therein. Jeff Schoeneman Superintendent of Public Works
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IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA NOTICE OF PRESENTATION OF PETITION REQUESTINGORDER FOR POSSESSION IN RE: THE CONDEMNATION BY THE COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY OF A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED IN ROSS TOWNSHIP, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA OWNED BY THE HEIRS OF EDWIN FLAIG AND MILDRED M. OSWALD REQUIRED FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF THE THOMPSON RUN CULVERTS NO. 2 AND NO. 3 LOCATED ON THOMPSON RUN ROAD (COUNTY ROAD 2303-00) Civil Division – GD 22-3394 Estimated Just Compensation - $500.00 Names and Addresses of Condemnees: HEIRS OF EDWIN FLAIG AND MILDRED M. OSWALD, current addresses unknown. Name and Address of Condemnor: Allegheny County, (“County”), 101 Courthouse, 436 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Identification of Parcel of Land: Land, not designated as a tax parcel but located on the westerly side of Thompson Run Road approximately 650’ north of the Thompson Run Road and Babcock Boulevard intersection consisting of 0.025 acres as “Required Right-of-Way” as depicted in Plans-Miscellaneous, Volume 189 at Page 7. TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Sections 307 and 522 of the Pennsylvania Eminent Domain Code, 26 Pa. C.S.A §§ 307 and 522, the County of Allegheny will, on June 27, 2022 at 9:30 a.m., present to the Motions Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Civil Division, a Petition Requesting Order for Possession Upon Condemnor’s Tender of Estimated Just Compensation to the Department of Court Records. The identity of the Motions Judge then presiding can be ascertained in the City County Building located at 414 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 on the date of presentation either in the Department of Court Records/Civil Family Division located on the 1st floor or in the Assignment Room located on the 7th floor. At the time of presentation, the County will request the Court to authorize the payment into Court of the County’s estimate of just compensation, as identified above, and the entry of an Order granting the County possession of the subject property. The County’s Petition including a proposed schedule of distribution and proposed Court Order may be viewed in the Department of Court Records/Civil Family Division prior to the date of presentation. Any moneys which the Court may direct be paid into Court will be held by the Department of Court Records/Civil Family Division until further Order directing payment of said amounts to the Condemnees and/or persons entitled thereto pursuant to 26 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 521 and 522. Andrew F. Szefi, County Solicitor NOTICE OF PRESENTATION OF PETITION REQUESTING ORDER FOR POSSESSION IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA IN RE: THE CONDEMNATION BY THE COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY OF A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED IN RANKIN BOROUGH, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA OWNED BY SULLIVAN HOMES, INC., A PENNSYLVANIA CORPORATION, REQUIRED FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE KENMAWR AVENUE RAMP BRIDGE (MA-07-KN04) Civil Division – GD 22-3395 Estimated Just Compensation - $500.00 Names and Addresses of Condemnees: SULLIVAN HOMES, INC., a Pennsylvania corporation, c/o Susan Williamson, President, 711 Commons Way, Williamsburg, VA 23185. Name and Address of Condemnor: Allegheny County, (“County”), 101 Courthouse, 436 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Identification of Parcel of Land: A portion of Tax Parcel Identification No. 236-K-158 consisting of 211 square feet as “Temporary Construction Easement” as depicted in Plans-Miscellaneous, Volume 188 at Page 60. TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Sections 307 and 522 of the Pennsylvania Eminent Domain Code, 26 Pa. C.S.A §§ 307 and 522, the County of Allegheny will, on June 27, 2022 at 9:30 a.m., present to the Motions Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Civil Division, a Petition Requesting Order for Possession Upon Condemnor’s Tender of Estimated Just Compensation to the Department of Court Records. The identity of the Motions Judge then presiding can be ascertained in the City County Building located at 414 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 on the date of presentation either in the Department of Court Records/Civil Family Division located on the 1st floor or in the Assignment Room located on the 7th floor. At the time of presentation, the County will request the Court to authorize the payment into Court of the County’s estimate of just compensation, as identified above, and the entry of an Order granting the County possession of the subject property. The County’s Petition including a proposed schedule of distribution and proposed Court Order may be viewed in the Department of Court Records/ Civil Family Division prior to the date of presentation. Any moneys which the Court may direct be paid into Court will be held by the Department of Court Records/Civil Family Division until further Order directing payment of said amounts to the Condemnees and/or persons entitled thereto pursuant to 26 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 521 and 522. Andrew F. Szefi, County Solicitor
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB) FOR CLEARING VEGETATION AUTHORITY WIDE IFB# 300-10-22 The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) hereby requests bids from qualified Firms or Individuals capable of providing the following service(s): Clearing Vegetation Authority Wide IFB#300-10-22 The documents will be available no later than May 9, 2022 and signed, sealed bids will be accepted until 9:00 am on May 31, 2022 The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh will only be accepting physical bids dropped off in person from 8:00 AM until the closing time of 9:00 AM on May 31, 2022 in the lobby of 100 Ross St. Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Bids may be uploaded to the Authority’s online submission site, the link is accessible via the HACP website and within the IFB. Sealed bids may still be mailed via USPS at which time they will be Time and Date Stamped at 100 Ross Street 2nd Floor, Suite 200, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Parties or individuals interested in responding may download a copy of the Solicitation from the Business Opportunities page of www.HACP.org. Questions or inquiries should be directed to: Mr. Kim Detrick Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh Procurement Department 100 Ross Street 2nd Floor, Suite 200 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-643-2832 A pre-submission meeting will be held via Zoom meeting; on May 19, 2022 at 9:00 A.M. Please see meeting information below: Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/ j/81103397922?pwd=L0p0YXh KUS85djc4KzcvL3hXNFk2QT09 Meeting ID: 811 0339 7922 Passcode: 659064 +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C) The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh strongly encourages certified minority business enterprises and women business enterprises to respond to this solicitation. HACP has revised their website. As part of those revisions, vendors must now register and log-in, in order to view and download IFB/ RFPs documentation. Caster D. Binion, Executive Director Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh HACP conducts business in accordance with all federal, state, and local civil rights laws, including but not limited to Title VII, the Fair Housing Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, The PA Human Relations Act, etc. and does not discriminate against any individuals protected by these statutes.
NOTICE OF PRESENTATION OF PETITION REQUESTING ORDER FOR POSSESSION IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA IN RE: THE CONDEMNATION BY THE COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY OF A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED IN RANKIN BOROUGH, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA OWNED BY THE HEIRS OF EDWARD ROY REQUIRED FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE KENMAWR AVENUE RAMP BRIDGE (MA07-KN04) Civil Division – GD 22-3397 Estimated Just Compensation - $500.00 Names and Addresses of Condemnees: The Heirs of Edward Roy, current addresses unknown. Name and Address of Condemnor: Allegheny County, (“County”), 101 Courthouse, 436 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Identification of Parcel of Land: A portion of Tax Parcel Identification No. 0236-K-156 consisting of 471 square feet as a “Temporary Construction Easement” as depicted in Plans-Miscellaneous, Volume 188 at Page 60. TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Sections 307 and 522 of the Pennsylvania Eminent Domain Code, 26 Pa. C.S.A §§ 307 and 522, the County of Allegheny will, on June 27, 2022 at 9:30 a.m., present to the Motions Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Civil Division, a Petition Requesting Order for Possession Upon Condemnor’s Tender of Estimated Just Compensation to the Department of Court Records. The identity of the Motions Judge then presiding can be ascertained in the City County Building located at 414 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 on the date of presentation either in the Department of Court Records/Civil Family Division located on the 1st floor or in the Assignment Room located on the 7th floor. At the time of presentation, the County will request the Court to authorize the payment into Court of the County’s estimate of just compensation, as identified above, and the entry of an Order granting the County possession of the subject property. The County’s Petition including a proposed schedule of distribution and proposed Court Order may be viewed in the Department of Court Records/Civil Family Division prior to the date of presentation. Any moneys which the Court may direct be paid into Court will be held by the Department of Court Records/Civil Family Division until further Order directing payment of said amounts to the Condemnees and/or persons entitled thereto pursuant to 26 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 521 and 522. Andrew F. Szefi, County Solicitor
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