A mailer was sent to thousands of Pittsburghers in the past week by the group, Common Sense Change Action, a politi-
cal action committee. On its mailer/flyer, it showed a photo of a dilapidated building in Uptown from around 2018, and under
it, the group wrote: “The Ed Gainey Legacy. Wasting millions. Rewarding cronies. Hurting neighborhoods.”
The problem is, today, that building on Tustin Avenue in Uptown is no longer run down. It’s renovated with tenants living
flyer went on to
by Genea L. Webb
For New Pittsburgh Courier
Jessie Peck grew up surrounded by music.
“Performing was always in me. My dad would bring home new music. I remember at the age of 9, my house was jamming to Motown on 8-tracks,” Peck told the New Pittsburgh Courier. “It was nothing but amazing, it was our leisure and I knew it was the way I wanted to live my life.”
So it was no surprise
when Peck was chosen to join the Spinners as the bass singer 18 years ago.
He’d heard from a good friend about an opening with the Spinners. He’d contacted the group’s management via email. Even before he was a member of the group, Peck was rehearsing.
“My first concert was the Spinners. My parents took us to the state fair in Michigan,” he recalled. “...
This Week In Black History A Courier Staple
• APRIL 23
by Stacy M. Brown BlackPressUSA.com Senior
Target is spiraling as consumer boycotts intensify, workers push to unionize, and the company faces mounting financial losses following its rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. With foot traffic plummeting, stock prices at a five-year low, and employee discontent boiling over, national civil rights leaders and grassroots organizers are vowing to escalate pressure in the weeks ahead. Led by Georgia pastor Rev. Jamal Bryant, a 40-day “Targetfast” aligned with the Lenten season continues to gain traction. “This is about holding companies accountable for abandoning progress,” Bryant said, as the campaign encourages consumers to shop elsewhere. Groups like the NAACP, the National Newspaper Publishers Association, and The People’s Union USA are amplifying the effort, organizing mass boycotts and strategic buying initiatives to target what they call corporate surrender to bigotry. Meanwhile, Target’s workforce is in an open revolt. On Reddit, self-identified employees described mass resignations, frustration with meager pay raises, and growing calls to unionize. “We’ve had six people give their two-week notices,” one worker wrote. “A rogue team member gathered us in the back room and started talking about forming a union.” Others echoed the sentiment, with users posting messages like, “We’ve been talking about forming a union at my store too,” and “Good on them for trying to organize—it needs to happen.” Target’s problems aren’t just anecdotal. The
numbers reflect a company in crisis. The retail giant has logged 10 straight weeks of falling in-store traffic. In February, foot traffic dropped 9 percent year-overyear, including a 9.5 percent plunge on February 28 during the 24-hour “economic blackout” boycott organized by The People’s Union USA. March saw a 6.5 percent decline compared to the previous year. Operating income fell 21 percent in the most recent quarter, and the company’s stock (TGT) opened at just $94 on April 14, down from $142 in January before the DEI cuts and subsequent backlash. The economic backlash is growing louder online, too.
“We are still boycotting Target due to them bending to bigotry by eroding their DEI programs,” posted the activist group We Are Somebody on April 14. “Target stock has gone down, and their projections remain flat. DEI was good for business. Do the right thing.” Former congresswoman Nina Turner, a senior fellow at The New School’s Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy, wrote, “Boycotts are effective. Boycotts must have a demand. We will continue to boycott until our demands are met.” More action is on the horizon. Another Target boycott is scheduled for June 3–9, part of a broader campaign targeting corporations that have abandoned DEI initiatives under pressure from right-wing politics and recent executive orders by President Donald Trump. The People’s Union USA, which led the February 28 boycott, has already launched similar weeklong actions against Walmart and announced upcoming boycotts of Amazon (May 6–12), Walmart again (May 20–26), and McDonald’s (June 24–30). The organization’s
founder, John Schwarz, said the goal is nothing short of shifting the economic power balance.
“We are going to remind them who has the power,” Schwarz said. “For one day, we turn it off. For one day, we shut it down. For one day, we remind them that this country does not belong to the elite, it belongs to the people.” As for Target, its top executives continue to downplay the damage. During a recent earnings call, Chief Financial Officer Jim Lee described the outlook for 2025 as uncertain, citing the “ripple” effects of tariffs and a wide range of possible outcomes. “We’re going to be focusing on controlling what we can control,” Lee said. But discontent is spreading internally. A Reddit post from a worker claimed, “The HR rep is doing his best to stop the bleeding, but all he did was put a Bluey bandaid on what is essentially a severed limb.”
Several employees criticized the company’s internal rewards system, “Bullseye Bucks,” for offering what amounts to play money. “Can’t pay rent or buy food with Bullseye Bucks,” one wrote. Others urged their colleagues to join unionizing efforts. “Imagine how much Target would lose their mind if they were under a union contract,” one team leader wrote. “It needs to happen at this point.” One former manager said they left the company after an insulting raise. “Quit last year when they gave me a 28-cent raise. Best decision I’ve ever made.” From store floors to boardrooms, the pressure is growing on Target. And as calls for justice, equity, and worker rights get louder, one worker put it plainly: “We’re all screwed—unless we fight back.”
How Trump’s tariffs are affecting Black beauty supply stores
by Black Information Network
Black beauty supply stores are already feeling the effects of Trump’s trade war, per NBC News. According to reports, Black haircare is a more than $2.5 billion industry in the U.S. The industry relies heavily on foreign exporters to provide everything from
wefts used for sew-ins, ingredients for ethnic hair care products and more.
Chasity Monroe, owner of Pink Noire, a Blackowned hair and beauty supply store in Memphis, Tennessee, said she is bracing herself for the effects of Trump’s tariffs, which have hiked the import fees on hair products she carries from overseas. In the case of Chinese-made goods, tariffs are up 145 percent, putting a major strain on small and minority-owned businesses.
“It’s just been really scary for a small business that’s not been open long,” Monroe said.
Monroe noted that she buys many of her products directly from vendors in China, so she’s responsible for the taxes when they enter the country. As suppliers begin to increase their prices, Monroe said she’ll be forced to pass on the costs to customers.
The beauty supply store owner said she may need to start selling synthetic braiding hair packs for the “unheard of” price of $10 to $12. Buyers like Monroe are
1856—One of the greatest inventors in American history, Granville T. Woods, is born in Columbus, Ohio. During his life he received 65 patents for electrical, mechanical and communications devices. Among his inventions was an advanced telephone transmitter. The transmitter was so advanced that the Alexander Graham Bell Company purchased the rights to it from Woods, both because it was superior to what Bell had invented and for fear that Woods might become a major rival to the Bell Company. At his height, the Cincinnati, Ohio Catholic Tribune (Jan. 14, 1886) wrote of Woods: “… the greatest colored inventor in the history of the race and equal, if not superior, to any inventor in the country…”
1872—Charlotte E. Ray becomes the first Black female lawyer in American history. Born in New York City to a journalist father and a politically active mother, Ray was a brilliant student who was teaching at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by the time she was 19. By age 22 she had her law degree and was admitted to the D.C. bar. However, sexual and racial discrimination forced her to abandon her law practice and return to New York to teach. She died Jan. 4, 1911.
1971—Liberian President William Tubman dies. Tubman and his strong-man rule had kept the West African nation founded by freed American slaves relatively stable but not necessarily democratic. His death laid the foundation for the anarchy and civil wars which would grip the nation for the next 30 years. Tubman also headed a class of so-called Americo-Liberians who often discriminated against the native African population.
• APRIL 24
1867—The first national meeting of the Ku Klux Klan is held at the Maxwell House in Nashville, Tenn. The White supremacist organization and its various offshoots would go on to launch a wave of terror, which would result in death and injury to thousands of African Americans over the years. The Klan would remain the nation’s most powerful anti-Black terrorist organization for the next 70 years. The first chapter, however, was actually formed a year earlier in Pulaski, Tenn. Most of the early Klan members were former soldiers of the defeated Confederate Army from the Civil War. The group’s initial aim was to spread fear among Blacks and prevent them from voting. But as the organization grew, it expanded into anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic and anti-foreigner activities. The first grand wizard was Nathan Bedford Forest.
1944—The United Negro College Fund is incorporated. Over the years, the fundraising activities of the UNCF would result in thousands of college educations for African Americans.
presidents of the nation’s predominantly Black colleges and universities to “pool their small resources and make an appeal to the national conscience” in order to produce more scholarship funds for the education of Black students. One year later the United Negro College Fund is incorporated with 27 member colleges.
• APRIL 26
1886—The “mother of the Blues” Gertrude “Ma” Rainey is born Gertrude Pridgett in Columbus, Ga. She began her career touring with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels. She was the first person to sing the Blues in minstrel shows. Rainey also coached, then young Blues singer Bessie Smith who would become more famous and celebrated than Rainer. Rainey died Dec. 22, 1939. 1994—The first all race elections take place in then White ruled South Africa. The elections would bring an end to 300 years of White minority rule, known as apartheid, in the African nation as well as bring about the election of Nelson Mandela as the country’s first Black and democratically elected president. Mandela had spent 27 years in prison because of his leadership of the African National Congress which had led the struggle against apartheid.
• APRIL 27
1903—W.E.B. DuBois’ “The Soul of Black Folks” is published. The book did much to outline and summarize progressive African American thought and opposition to the accommodation policies of Booker T. Washington—then the nation’s foremost Black leader. DuBois argued that “the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line” and labeled Washington’s program as one of “industrial education, conciliation of the South, and submission and silence as to civil and political rights.” A collection of DuBois’ papers are currently being placed online by the University of Massachusetts.
1903—Maggie Lena Walker becomes the first Black woman to head a bank in America. In fact, she was the first woman of any color to head a bank when she was named president of the St. Luke Bank and Trust Company in Richmond, Va. Walker was an outstanding businesswoman who took over Richmond’s Order of St. Luke when it was nearly broke and rapidly losing membership. Within a few years the Order owned a bank, a newspaper, a printing press and a three-story department store despite the active opposition of Richmond’s White business community. Walker also helped found the Lilly Black Party in part as a slap at the segregated “Lilly White” political parties of the day. One of her mottos was “Don’t get angry, get busy.” She died Dec. 15, 1934.
• APRIL 28
being encouraged to take advantage of the 90-day pause on certain tariffs for countries like India, Cambodia, and Malaysia to stock up on inventory. However, some small businesses don’t have the means to do so.
“We know already that many Black businesses don’t have the banking relationships that would allow them the access to capital and the liquidity to go out and make large purchases so that they could actually have inventory,” Trevon Logan, an economist at Ohio State University, said.
LaWanda Majors, owner of MajorStyllz Beauty Supply just outside of Nashville, said that a Brazilian bundle she purchases from an overseas vendor was increasing from $125 to $175. Majors said she’s currently marking everything down in her store in hopes of bringing in the money she would need to buy more inventory as prices increase.
“I’m just stuck right now,” she said. “I just put it in God’s hands.”
1944—Whites only political primaries are declared unconstitutional. In a case known as Smith v. Allwright, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a “Whites only” primary law, which excluded Blacks from voting, was a violation of the 15th Amendment and was thus unconstitutional. Such laws had been common throughout the South.
• APRIL 25
1918—Jazz singing legend Ella Fitzgerald is born in Newport News, Va. Orphaned at an early age, Fitzgerald was literally living in the streets when she was discovered in Harlem, N.Y., by bandleader Chick Webb. Despite never having received formal vocal training, musical experts often compared her techniques and vocal range to that of a conservatory trained singer. One of the ultimate compliments to her abilities was given by the great song writer Ira Gershwin who said, “I didn’t realize our songs were so good until I heard Ella sing them.” Fitzgerald died at the age of 79 on June 15, 1997.
1943—Tuskegee Institute President Frederick Patterson writes his famous letter (published in the Pittsburgh Courier) urging the
1967—The World Boxing Association and the New York State Athletic Commission withdraw recognition of Muhammad Ali as world heavyweight boxing champion because of his opposition to the war in Vietnam and his resulting refusal to serve in the U.S. military. One of his famous phrases during the controversial period was, “I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong.” In addition to being stripped of his title and license to box, Ali was sentenced to five years in prison for refusing to be inducted into the military. However, four years later the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction and Ali was allowed to box again.
• APRIL 29
1992—This was the first day of the Los Angeles riots which were sparked when a nearly all White jury acquitted four White cops in the brutal beating of Black motorist Rodney King even though the beating had been caught on tape. Two of the cops were later convicted on federal civil rights charges. The riots left at least 50 people dead, nearly 1,000 injuries and an estimated $1 billion in property damage.
Friday, May 9, 2025 • 6-9 p.m.
Sheraton Pittsburgh Hotel at Station Square 300 W. Station Square, Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15219
AUSTIN DAVIS
Lieutenant Governor Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Trailblazer Award Recipient
Courtney Abegunde
Operations Director, Steel Smiling Program
Neighborhood Allies
Blessy Bellamy
Customer Experience Strategy Consultant
Highmark Health
Dr. Jimyse Lyn Brown
Executive Director Moonshot Museum
Ashley Cabiness
Program Manager, South Pittsburgh ACTES; Co-Founder, Westside CARES
Tiaona Cade
Associate Director, Mary Beth and Miles Reidy Career Center
Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College of Information Systems & Public Policy
Christopher Carter, J.D.
Pitt Athletics Reporter, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette;
Sports Host/Guest, WPXI-TV
Jeremy Castrodad
Senior Distribution Technician Duquesne Light Company
Savionne Chambers
Instructor and Choreographer, Kulture Dance Academy; Dancer, Firewall Dance Theater
Senior Program Officer for Education, The Pittsburgh Foundation; Principal, JINC&Co
Shea Craig
Chief Accountant and Treasurer Halco Mining Inc.
Kahlil G. Darden Jr.
CEO & Founder
Young Black Motivated Kings & Queens
Courtney Davenport
Vice President of Belonging & Inclusion BNY
Lesa DeGennaro
Coordinator, Member Engagement
UPMC Health Plan
Kelcei J. Edmonds-Tindal
Educator
Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship
Deainna Fitzgerald
CEO
Revealed Wellness Spa and Dee’s Beauty Bar
Glenn O. Ford
Director, Woodland Hills Impact Center
Councilmember, Borough of Rankin
Kashif Henderson
Executive Director
Neighborhood Learning Alliance
Kimberly Diana Jacobs Curator and Exhibition Manager
August Wilson African American Cultural Center
Dr. Shenay Jeffrey
Community Relationships Manager
UPMC
Ashanté Josey
Visual Artist & Artist Advocate
AJosey Art
Dr. Anthony Kane Jr.
Assistant Vice President & Dean of Students
Saint Vincent College
Tyler Ray Kendrick
Actor, Comedian, and Educator
George W. Little Jr.
Assistant Principal, Logan Elementary School K-6 East Allegheny School District
Keith T. Marrow
Recruiter
Pittsburgh Regional Transit
Farren Mason Jr.
Owner, Generation Realty;
Supervisor for Permits License & Inspection, City of Pittsburgh
Derrick l. Maultsby Jr., Esq.
Attorney
Frost Brown Todd LLP
Trey McCune
Executive Director Homewood-Brushton YMCA
Dr. Brittany McDonald-Pierce
Executive Director
Uptown Partners of Pittsburgh
Chidozie Christian Oparanozie
Manager of School Partnerships
Urban Impact Foundation
Shannon Prentiss
Dean of Student Affairs
The Neighborhood Academy
Fred Quinn III
Alumni Network Coordinator, Penn State University; Councilmember, Borough of Swissvale
Dr. MiIsha Reid
Program Director & Assistant Professor of Special Education Carlow University
Teona Ringgold
Director of JEDAI & Community Engagement
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
Dr. Jaleah N. Robinson
Clinical Assistant Professor of Special Education, Department of Educational Foundations & Leadership Duquesne University
Jonathan Royster
Assistant Vice President, McKees Rocks Branch
KeyBank
Khirsten L. Scott, PhD
Assistant Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture & Director of the Western PA Writing Program University of Pittsburgh
Nissa’a Stallworth-Hewitt
Commercial Kitchen Manager
Catapult of Greater Pittsburgh
Anthony R. Walls Jr.
Senior National Sales Manager-ASM
Global Management
David L. Lawrence Convention Center
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Black community denounces ‘racist’ mailer about Mayor Ed Gainey
sinuate that the run-down buildings, the disinvestment in certain areas of the city over the decades is Ed Gainey’s fault, when Gainey, the city’s first Black mayor, has only been in office since 2022.
The misrepresentation of the mailer was quickly called out by Pittsburgh’s African American community and others. In fact, it’s the most outrage Pittsburgh’s Black community has shown during the Gainey administration for something that, according to many Black elected officials, is a racist attack against the mayor.
“This mailer leans into deeply racist troupes,” said Brandi Fisher, CEO of the Alliance for Police Accountability, at a news conference, April 21, in front of the City-County Building, Downtown.
“Calling the administration of a Black mayor filled with cronies, implying he has misappropriated funds, saying he is enriching his friends and alleging financial mismanagement is highly inappropriate.”
Fisher also said the mailer was harmful to Black women “by implying that contracts they earned through the required RFP process were not deserved nor transparent.”
On May 20, voters in Pittsburgh will choose between Gainey and his challenger, Corey O’Connor, as to whom will represent the Democratic Party in the November mayoral election. While the May 20 Primary
Election also has two Republicans vying for their party’s nomination, historically, there’s almost no chance either Republican, Tony Moreno or Thomas West, will defeat the Democrat, Gainey or O’Connor, in November. Thus, the battle is fierce between Gainey and O’Connor. Attack ads have been hitting the local television screens. Mayor Gainey has called out O’Connor for accepting campaign contributions from those who are suspected of being part of President Donald Trump’s MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement. O’Connor has said that Mayor Gainey hasn’t done enough when it comes to keeping the city safe.
The O’Connor campaign did not print the mailer that has much of Black Pittsburgh in an uproar, but the PAC Common Sense Change Action is clearly in support of O’Connor. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that the group has raised more than $260,000, “primarily from donations from local labor organizations and from politicians who have endorsed Mr. O’Connor.”
Using the word “legacy” to describe anyone is a touchy subject. The word “legacy” is usually reserved for what people will think of a person for the entire body of work that they’ve performed over the course of a lifetime. Showing a dilapidated building and calling that Ed Gainey’s “legacy” isn’t illegal to say, but it’s clearly wrong, according to Fisher and Black state representatives like Aerion Abney and La’Tasha D. Mayes, who were also at the news conference on April 21.
“This is not just an attack on the mayor,” voiced Rep. Mayes, “this is an attack on me, Rep. Abney and all other
Black elected officials and Black communities in the City of Pittsburgh. And to call generations of blight, to call generations of economic oppression and marginalization and redlining...part of the legacy of Mayor Ed Gainey is a lie, it’s disingenuous and it dishonors all of us who live and support and reside in the City of Pittsburgh.”
Fisher and Reps. Abney and Mayes called on O’Connor, the current Allegheny County Controller, to publicly denounce the mailer and its written words and insinuations.
Instead, O’Connor’s campaign released a statement on April 21, which read: “Hateful rhetoric in any form is unacceptable. It has no place in this race and will have no place in Corey O’Connor’s administration, if elected.
The O’Connor campaign is committed to tackling the very real issues facing Pittsburgh—looming bankruptcy, overwhelmed public safety departments, and a lack of affordable housing. This is the discussion that Pittsburghers deserve.”
Representative Abney, of the state House’s 19th Legislative District, was very angry with the mailer and what he said it tried to insinuate. “The
folks who are behind these ads and attacks, they are not doing it because they think that you are going to vote for Corey, they are doing it because they want you to sit this one out. They want you to not vote at all, be discouraged because a ‘no’ vote is a ‘no’ vote for Ed.”
Representative Abney acknowledged that there are some African Americans in the city who are supporting O’Connor over Mayor Gainey, though the vast majority of Blacks in the city are in support of Mayor Gainey. He then said: “My message is, it’s OK to have multiple truths. You can both support Corey and you can call this out for what it is. If they will do these attack ads against the first Black mayor and this is what they feel about the Black mayor, imagine what they think and feel about your Black self.”
STATE REP. AERION ABNEY called on Corey O'Connor to denounce the mailer that was sent to Pittsburghers that he said insinuated that Mayor Ed Gainey was responsible for decades of neglect and disinvestment in parts of Pittsburgh. (Photos by Marlon Martin)
Gov. Shapiro in Pittsburgh for first time since arson attack
by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer
Lori Williams wanted to be a firefighter since she was 4 years old. And she's currently "living out my dream and I love it," she told the New Pittsburgh Courier on April 21. "It's so much fun."
Imagine the thoughts going through her head when she learned that an alleged arsonist tried to burn down the Governor's mansion in Harrisburg in the early morning hours of April 13—with the Governor, Josh Shapiro, and his family, inside.
The alleged suspect— Cody A. Balmer, actually called 9-1-1 hours after the fire was set and basically confessed to setting the blaze. Officers arrested him shortly thereafter.
Thankfully, Gov. Shapiro, his wife and children were unharmed in the fire, as state police and firefighters rushed to their aid.
On Monday, April 21, Gov. Shapiro made his first trip to the Pittsburgh area since the fire, as he toured the Mt. Lebanon Fire Department facility and then announced he was placing in his upcoming budget proposal $30 million in grants to support the state's firefighters.
Williams, a Black woman, is currently a volunteer firefighter with the Castle Shannon Volunteer Fire Department. She's been there for two years, and before that, volunteered with the Dormont Volunteer Fire Department for three years. It's hard to find a Black woman fighting fires.
"It's difficult and being a woman, it's even more difficult," Williams said, "but always support us."
She was right there in the crowd to see Gov. Shapiro on April 21, who again expressed his gratitude for the firefighters who rushed to his home and stopped the fire from harming anyone. "He does so much to sup-
port us, and he fights so hard," Williams said of the governor, "and I truly appreciate that."
'It's A Shame' if you don't see the Spinners, May 2
When Pervis Jackson (the Spinners’ bass singer and one of the group’s original and founding members who died in 2008) did his famous 12:45 line, the crowd screamed and I realized I wanted that.”
The Spinners got their start in Michigan in 1954 and had hit singles and albums in the 1960s and 1970s. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the 2023 class.
“The group was inducted while the last surviving member of the original group, Henry, was still alive. They received their due and that was awesome. I was grateful for that,” Peck said.
The Spinners will be bringing their velvety-smooth rhythms to the O’Reilly Theater on Friday, May 2, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. as the main stage act for New Horizon Theater Inc.’s Annual Black Tie Special Event. Individual ticket prices range from $70 to $100; the reception package and main level are $125; and $60-$100 for groups of 10 or more. For tickets, call 412-431-0773, email newhorizontheater@yahoo.com or visit Dorsey’s Imaging on Frankstown Avenue in Homewood.
“We’ve never had the Spinners here in Pittsburgh. We had discussed it years ago, but it never
happened. I’d been listening to their music online. I liked their choreography and they sounded good. New Horizon Theater is excited to bring them here,” explained New Horizon Theater Inc., Chairperson Joyce Meggerson-Moore. “People will experience a great evening of entertainment. Their performance will be great for Pittsburgh.” Attendees will also get a taste of the high-caliber theater that New Horizon Theater provides with a scene from one of this season’s plays before the concert begins. “It’s our annual event and it’s always an exciting time that leads to our last play of the season. We need to get people out to support us,” said Meggerson-Moore. Although New Horizon has never brought the Spinners to Pittsburgh, the group has numerous Steel City connections. The group’s well-known hit, “Could It Be I’m Falling In Love,” was written by Aliquippa-born twins Melvin and Mervin Steals. Braddock native Syreeta Wright co-wrote “It’s A Shame.” The Spinners’ bumping riff “The Rubberband Man” featured Pittsburgh funkster Bob Babbitt.
“The relationship the Spinners have with Pittsburgh is quite symbolic,” said Tanisha Jackson, Spinners’ publicist and
Donora native. “To be able to pour back into the city’s community in this way is just a continuation of a longstanding relationship.” The current configuration of the Spinners, in addition to Peck, includes Marvin Taylor, Ronnie Moss and CJ Jefferson.
When Peck, who was born in New York, raised in Detroit and currently resides in Houston, isn’t traveling the world performing as a member of the Spinners, he enjoys spending time with his family, customizing remote control cars, martial arts, karaoke and poetry. In addition to singing, he does voice-over work, which includes voicing commercials. In August, he will begin filming “The Jessie Peck Show,” an “Arsenio Hall Show” type program that will have Peck interviewing many of entertainment’s top celebrities. But for now, he is focused on giving Pittsburghers an unforgettable night of music. “When we show up, the O’Reilly Theater is going to be turned upside down,” Peck said. “Our concert is a celebration of ultimate, nostalgic music.”
P67, P69, P71, P76, Y1, Y45, Y47, Y49
MAJOR FREQUENCY REDUCTIONS (IN NUMBER OF TRIPS) (Count: 33)
MAJOR COVERAGE REDUCTIONS (IN LENGTH OF ROUTE) (Count: 4)
• Light-Rail Routes: Red Line: Overbrook Junction to Allegheny Station
• Bus Routes: 28X: PIT Airport to Carnegie Station 44: Kohne Street and Fisher Street in St. Clair to South Hills Junction 69: Wilmerding to Wilkinsburg Station.
The proposal also includes the following minor service changes to be implemented with the February 2026 service changes. No formal public comment period, hearing and/or PRT Board action is required for these proposed minor services changes, but they are included here for transparency and completeness purposes.
MINOR SERVICE REDUCTIONS (No Board action required) (Count: 20)
GOV. JOSH SHAPIRO AND FIREFIGHTER LORI WILLIAMS. (PHOTO BY MARLON MARTIN)
LT. GOV. AUSTIN DAVIS AND GOV. JOSH SHAPIRO IN THE PITTSBURGH REGION, APRIL 21. (PHOTO BY MARLON MARTIN)
African American support for Gainey is firm
Supporters throw event at Preeti's Pitt in the Strip
The City of Pittsburgh’s first Black mayor is seeing that fellow African Americans in Pittsburgh want to see him have a second term as mayor.
In the past few months, the support has been increasing from an outward perspective. Donations have been pouring in during events at places like Hysyde Lounge on the North Side, and most recently, at Preeti’s Pitt in
the Strip District. Preeti’s Pitt is owned by Preeti Tuli. During the April 4 “Feel Good Fridays” Guest Bartender Edition event, the “Power Four” were doing the guest bartending — Kathy Fitzgerald, Dr. Brie Adams, Angela Mike and Merecedes J. Williams. DJ Selecta was providing the sounds, and Mayor Ed Gainey and wife, First Lady Michelle Gainey, served as
hosts.
In a city that’s not even 25 percent Black, many of Pittsburgh’s Black women are saying, “Enough is enough. Forget the rhetoric, the haters, let’s stand united and make sure Ed stays in office.”
The Primary Election is Tuesday, May 20.
- Rob Taylor Jr.
d/b/a Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) and the Borough of Dormont are releasing a joint Request for Qualifications (RFQ) from experienced, financially creative, and capable developers, development teams, or companies to provide for the potential transit-oriented development of the Dormont Junction site (the Site) via a long-term ground lease or similar agreement with Dormont and PRT, respectively and/or jointly, as to the parcels owned by each entity.
The Site consists of 2.5 acres, mainly paved and lighted surface lot that is sandwiched between PRT’s Dormont Junction light rail station and Dormont’s Business District of West Liberty Avenue in the Borough of Dormont, Allegheny County, PA. Additional information about the Site is contained in the RFQ.
The full RFQ which outlines required materials, terms and limitations, and deadlines can be found on PRT’s website at: https://engage.rideprt.com/dormont/tod.
This RFQ process and any transit-oriented development of the Site shall be in compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations and subject to relevant approvals, including but not necessarily limited to PRT Board and Borough of Dormont Council approvals. There will be an informational pre-submission meeting held virtually on Monday, April 28th at 3:00 p.m. EST via Microsoft Teams. A link to register for that meeting can be found on the project website listed above.
Proposals are due by 5:00 p.m. EST on Monday, May 26th, 2025. Please submit RFQs and direct any questions to Moira Egler, Manager of Transit-Oriented Communities at megler@rideprt.org.
TULI AT PREETI’S PITT, IN THE STRIP DISTRICT, APRIL 4. (PHOTOS BY CHIEF IKHANA-HAL-MAKINA)
KELLI SHAKUR SUPPORTS MAYOR ED GAINEY...
‘Weaving Women Biblical Institute’ gaining traction in Pittsburgh
by Genea L. Webb
For New Pittsburgh Courier
The courage, faith and strength that Eve, Tamar, Abijah, Hagar, Abigail, Delilah, Achsah, Zeleophehad, Huldah and Rahab demonstrated will be thoroughly examined through women-led online courses.
Reverend Dr. Judith Campbell Moore is the founder and CEO of the Weaving Women Biblical Institute. Reverend Moore entered the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in 2003 and has been studying women of the Bible from afar ever since. She believes that by seeing the stories of these women with fresh, new insight, students who take the courses will ultimately see themselves and be able to apply the principles leaned to their own lives.
“We are accustomed to hearing parts of stories,” Rev. Moore told the Courier. “We will be expanding our knowledge of the Biblical text and delving into the purpose each woman had and how she used faith and courage to overcome adversity.”
The genesis for the Weaving Women Biblical Institute is based on her book, “Read It Again.” She hopes to create ambassadors and advocates who can shed light on how women’s roles connect to a person’s faith and responsibilities.
Weaving Women Biblical Institute, which was created in 2023, sits under the umbrella of Rev. Moore’s Sisters Saving Ourselves Now/Black Women’s Roundtable initiative, which works to help Black women in
urban areas.
Reverend Moore wants to be clear that she is not trying to rewrite the Bible; rather flesh out the women’s stories.
“We’re looking to make it exciting. We want a good, solid foundation and we want to get people to understand these women. I want people to say, ‘oh, I didn’t see it that way,’” Rev. Moore said.
In addition to herself, Rev. Moore has recruited two other women thus far to serve as course instructors. The virtual, online courses begin on May 5. Each class costs $15. In the past months,
Weaving Women Biblical Institute has held in-person courses at Bethel AME Church in Monroeville, Bethel AME Church in Tarentum, and most recently, the Penn Hills library.
Another in-person course will be held in Clairton on May 17.
Reverend Moore told the Courier that the goal of Weaving Women Biblical Institute is to “bring the women of the Bible to local theater.” With that in mind, Rev. Moore will be spearheading a theatrical performance featuring the women of the Bible in June.
“I’ve always had a love for women and ministry,” said Minister Tawanda Rodriguez, who also serves as the Weaving Women Biblical Institute’s program coordinator. “I want women to walk away feeling
empowered. They can trust God and have a better understanding of themselves as powerful, amazing and loving. We all have a purpose and a reason for being. I want to help them find their calling.” Also involved in the Weaving Women Biblical Institute is Rev. Dr. Jermaine McKinley. One her favorite female characters in the Bible is Tamar. Reverend
McKinley wants to help students understand the difference between the two Tamars of the ancient script.
“I’d like for students to look at things in a historical perspective, the situation in life and from the perspective of when the stories were written and who wrote them,” Rev. McKinley told the Courier. “I want students to see how women were treated and realize
Reverend A. Marie Walker’s
the time period these stories were written in.
Read between the lines to find out what’s really going on. Most of the women in the Bible were unnamed. If the women were mentioned, they had to be super-duper important. They couldn’t be left out.”
“We’re looking for ways to create a collective effort with other folks who are interested,” Rev. Moore said. “Come join
us and learn more about how we as Black women can relate and learn and be empowered in the journey. It’s a unique way for women to know their self worth.”
(Editor’s note: For more information on the courses or to sign up, email drjudithcmoore@gmail.com.)
Weekly Inspiration
“For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then WE which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
REV. WALKER SAYS: Question...are you ready to GO when Jesus comes?
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Happy 100th Birthday, Louise Mooney!
Harness the power of walking Benefits of being physically active
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walk isn’t just good for your body; it’s a simple, powerful way to care for your mind and soul. Physical activity, like walking, reduces stress, boosts mood and promotes overall well-being. Yet physical activity levels in the United States continue to decline, a trend threatening both mental and physical health.
Less than half of adults and fewer than 1 in 5 children in the U.S. get the recommended amount of physical activity needed for heart health, according to the American Heart Association’s 2025 Heart & Stroke Statistical Update.
National recommendations call for children to get at least one hour of physical activity each day, but the latest statistics show less than 19 percent of children in the U.S. achieve that target. Meanwhile, less than half of adults get the recommended 150 minutes or more of weekly physical activity.
What’s more, according to data from a National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1 in 4 U.S. adults sits for longer than eight hours each day, which can have negative consequences on physical and mental health. For decades, the American Heart Association has championed the importance of physical activity in communities across the country. These tips and information can help you understand how a brisk walk can make a world of difference for heart health and mental clarity.
Benefits of Physical Activity
Staying active is one of the best ways to keep your mind and body healthy.
The physical health benefits may be obvious, but research suggests physical activity can also help bring more joy to your life. According to the 2019 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, people who get
the recommended amount of physical activity are less likely to experience depression.
Regular physical activity enhances your mood, sharpens your mind, improves sleep and boosts overall well-being, all while reducing the risk of disease and depression and increasing both the quality and longevity of life.
How to Be More
Physically Active
Exercise as simple as a brisk walk can put a major spring in your step. It can even energize you to finish other tasks at hand, whether it’s cooking or running errands. Give your daily physical activity level a boost with these tips: Exercising outdoors is a great way to get moving.
Spending time outdoors has been shown to reduce stress, promote a sense of belonging and improve mood. It’s even better if you can enjoy the sunshine outside, which can improve
mood, boost your immunity and help you get some vitamin D.
Invite a family member or friend along with you. It’s good for them, it’s good for you and it’s good company all around.
Instead of wondering if you’ll move today, explore how you’ll move. A walk, a dance or a stretch all count.
Getting Pets Involved Pets are part of your fami-
ly, and they can help you get healthy together. Pets provide a fun reason to spend more time outside and get the exercise needed to reduce the risk of disease later in life.
Getting moving along with your pet adds more exercise to your routine, which means living longer, reducing risk of dying from heart attack or stroke, reducing risk of diabetes, reducing stress and even boosting
'The Way of The Weeds' — We can learn from them
your overall happiness and well-being.
Exercising with your pet can also mean enjoying more socializing. You may find yourself meeting other dog owners in your area on a walk or at the dog park. Learn more about how simple habits like walking can support your overall health at heart.org/MoveMore.
An answer to the current administration
One of the keenest observations I made as a homeowner back in the mid-2000s was how relentless the fight to get rid of weeds became. There had been a small patch of dirt in the front of my house left over from when a utility pole had to be taken down. Immediately, weeds took over that little patch and it seemed to me that nothing I did to get rid of them worked; they kept returning. One day I came home from work and saw a really tall weed was growing straight up in the middle of the patch of dirt, taller than me. I got out of my car and stepped on it, with all my might attempting to break it at the bottom to keep it from growing back. To my complete dismay, that weed showed back up in what seemed like the next day... even taller.
I tried planting flowers and putting some plastic in that area, but the weeds continued to push through, making their presence known. I had the same problem in my small backyard. And every year I would hire someone to come and help me in the backyard. We used fancy rocks, more plastic covering, and more planting of flowers. The weeds still came— "The Way of the Weeds" was to keep showing up and not give in. And get taller and taller. "The Way of the Weeds" was to stand fast in the face of the adversity— the plastic covering, the fancy rocks, and other flowers,
all intended to end them, but still they stayed on their mission of growing anyway. Their very existence was dependent upon that “Way” —continuing to show up. I think about that experience of fighting those weeds, and how no matter what, they kept coming back, sometimes stronger than before, and I look at the seemingly perilous situation we as people find ourselves facing at this moment, mired in a climate that threatens to upend the progress we’ve made over the years. Add to this the executive orders imposed by this current administration designed to strip away rights that protect African Americans, attempts to delete our history and ban any book that contains historical information relevant to our past. I cannot help but recall my fight against the weeds around my house, and how they fought me back for their freedom to just be.
I’m reminded of a few things, as senior men and women, we’ve seen this kind of trouble before, we have lived through repeated attempts to destroy us before. The work of this current environment has a familiar odor to it. And we know firsthand how important it is to STAND FAST. To continue the course. As did our foremothers and forefathers before us. There is a long trail of perilous times behind us. As it was with those “Weeds,” now is the time for us to stand fast— and come back stronger. We have a track record of coming back strong. In 1955, there was a little protest we may remember. It was in Montgomery, Alabama—where for 381 days our folks STOOD FAST. They faced so many adversaries in that year and 16 days, from Dec. 5, 1955, to Dec. 20, 1956, including loss of work, getting arrested, extreme harassment—and though it is an unlikely
comparison, like the weeds that kept coming back around my house no matter what I did to stop their growth, they—those boycotters--held on to their mission and were not daunted by the forces against them. And in the end, the bus company had to acquiesce to the demands of its African American ridership as the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional.
In 1900, when James Weldon Johnson wrote the lyrics to the poem that would go on to become the Negro National Anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," the state of Black America was abysmal at best. It was post-reconstruction— Blacks in the south were facing a Jim Crow system, an anvil around the necks of citizens designed to bury them under the weight of flaming segregation, entire Black communities were being decimated by bomb-
ings and fires, land belonging to Black families was being stolen and lynchings were still prevalent. Ultimately set to music by Weldon’s brother, the anthem was a truthful look at where we stood as a race in this country. It was a clarion call to our people that, “stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod...” "... Felt in the days when hope unborn had died," we were to “Lift every voice and sing, 'til earth and heaven ring; ring with the harmonies of liberty. Let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening skies...let it resound, loud as the rolling sea." I would offer that we must adopt the posture of the "Weeds" if we are to navigate through this current season of chaos and what appears to be one setback after another—we’ve seen these waters before and worse. "The
Way of the Weeds" will help us cross the finish line.
RENEE P. ALDRICH
MISS LOUISE MOONEY WITH HER PROCLAMATION, AS SHE CELEBRATED HER 100TH BIRTHDAY IN APRIL 2025. (PHOTOS BY J.L. MARTELLO)
MISS MOONEY AND HER GRANDCHILDREN. MISS MOONEY SITTING WITH HER FOUR DAUGHTERS.
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In the quest for economic empowerment and generational wealth, Black women are boldly leading the way in homeownership, significantly outpacing Black men and other demographics in recent years.
According to the 2024 Snapshot of Race and Homebuying in America by the National Association of Realtors, single female homebuyers are most prevalent among Black women, making up an impressive 27 percent of all Black homebuyers. By comparison, single women represent 24 percent of Asian homebuyers, 17 percent of White buyers, and only 7 percent of Hispanic buyers.
Digging deeper into recent data, a 2023 Realtor.com analysis highlighted the growing trend even further: between October 2017 and September 2018, Black women constituted 32.4 percent of Black homebuyers, a figure that rose to 35.4 percent between October 2020 and September 2021. The momentum is undeniable; from October 2018 to January 2020, the number of Black female homebuyers grew at an average
annual rate of 7.3 percent, more than double the growth rate of 3.4 percent among Black men during the same time frame.
Yet, despite their remarkable strides, Black women face numerous systemic hurdles. Arlita Harvey, a seasoned realtor with Alite Realty, sheds light on this stark reality: “There are instances where Black women are successfully buying homes, but it doesn’t mean the path is easy or free from unnecessary barriers created by societal challenges that simply shouldn’t exist.”
Historically, Black women have been foundational pillars in their communities, providing stability, raising families and significantly contributing to societal growth. Their commitment to homeownership underscores their understanding of the transformative power property holds not just for themselves, but for future generations. We must recognize and honor this determination by actively working to reduce the barriers that complicate their path to homeownership. The truth is clear: Black women are driving community growth, improving educational opportunities, and nurturing the next generation. It is imperative that access to homeownership becomes easier and more attainable for them. Often, buying is more affordable than renting,
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Let me keep it 100 with you—the IRS don’t forget, don’t forgive, and definitely don’t fumble when it comes to late taxes. If you missed the deadline to file your tax return, your stress might be building up like them late fees. But before you start ignoring those IRS letters like you do telemarketers, slow down and read this. I’m about to break down exactly what happens when you miss the deadline, how much it’s really gonna cost you, and what you can do —without getting scammed. Missing the Deadline Ain’t Free Let’s start with what you’re probably wondering: What’s the penalty? If you owe money and didn’t file, brace yourself—the penalty for late filing is 5 percent per month of the unpaid taxes. That can stack up to 25 percent of what you owe. If you’re more than 60 days late, there’s a minimum hit of $510. That’s before they tack on the late payment penalty, which is 0.5 percent per month. Put it like this: You might’ve owed $1,000 in taxes… but by dragging your feet, now the IRS wants $1,300+ —and that’s before they start adding interest, which is currently 7 percent annually and compounding daily. I’m not telling you this to scare you. I’m telling you this so you stop playing yourself and take action—now.
Good News: If You’re Due a Re -
by MSR News Online
Despite an increase in financial literacy offerings in high schools, a growing number of teenagers remain deeply anxious about their financial futures.
A new study from Junior Achievement and MissionSquare Retirement’s Foundation found that 43 percent of teens ages 13–18 are worried they won’t have enough money to meet their future needs and goals. The findings come as 45 percent of high schoolers reported taking a personal finance or financial literacy class— up from 31 percent in 2024.
While 64 percent of students who took these courses rated them as extremely or very helpful, the survey revealed significant knowledge gaps persist among American teens.
Key findings
• 68 percent of teens believe saving for retirement can wait until later in life
• 43 percent think an 18 percent interest rate on debt is manageable and can be paid off over time
• 80 percent have never heard of FICO credit scores or don’t fully understand their purpose
• The most appealing investing strategies for teens are:
o Savings accounts
o Side hustles
o Keeping cash at home
• When receiving money:
o 36 percent save for the future
o 23 percent save for education
o 13 percent invest
“With more states adopting financial literacy requirements, the research suggests that not all courses are achieving their full potential,” said Dr. Monica Goldson, president and CEO of Junior Achievement of Greater Washington. “Financial literacy programs must embrace evidence-based strategies that not only deepen knowledge but also shape positive attitudes and behaviors.”
About the study
Junior Achievement delivers a rigorous,
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Now, if you were supposed to get a refund, the IRS doesn’t penalize you for filing late. But here’s the kicker—you only have 3 years to claim that refund. After that, they keep the check. So don’t think you can chill forever. Uncle Sam ain’t in the business of handing out refunds on demand.
Disasters and Extensions
If you live in an area hit by a federally declared disaster, the IRS might give you an automatic filing extension. Check IRS.gov for those updates—don’t just assume you qualify. Assumption will have you in a penalty pileup real quick. Also, don’t confuse a payment extension with a filing extension. Just because you bought yourself more time to pay doesn’t mean you get more time to file.
multi-year curriculum aligned with state standards through nearly 100 organizations nationwide. Their programs cover personal finance, investing, economics, entrepreneur-
ship, career planning, and creative thinking. The Wakefield Research study surveyed 1,000 nationally representative U.S. teens from Feb. 3–10, 2025, with a sampling margin
the IRS and apply for an installment agreement. You can do this online at IRS.gov or call them at 800-8291040. Be warned: hold times can be disrespectfully long, so pack your patience.
As a tax pro, I’ve set up countless installment payment plans for folks who couldn’t pay their full balance. Trust me—it’s better to get on a plan and stay in good standing than to dodge the IRS and end up with levies, garnishments, or frozen bank accounts. Here’s what you need to know:
• Payment plans don’t stop the interest, but they do stop the drama.
• You’ll stay in good standing while you pay it off.
• You’ll avoid wage garnishment, liens, and levies. Desperate? Scammers Are Waiting
clean with some “government program” you’ve never heard of. They’ll throw out fancy terms like “Offer in Compromise” and talk smooth like late-night infomercials. Here’s the truth:
• Most of them are hustlers.
• They charge high fees and leave you worse off.
• If you do qualify for an IRS Offer in Compromise, you can apply yourself or use a legit tax pro—not some random voice on the radio. Want to see if you qualify for real? Use the IRS Offer in Compromise
Can’t Pay? Don’t Duck — Negotiate If money’s tight and you can’t pay your full bill, the worst thing you can do is go ghost. Instead, reach out to
Now let’s get into the shady side of this—the scam artists. If you’re drowning in tax debt, you’re a prime target. Scammers will slide into your DMs (or mailboxes) promising to wipe your IRS debt
ANTHONY O.
Plans to shutter education department add to financial aid confusion
by Charlene Crowell (TriceEdneyWire.com)—
The chaos and confusion resulting from systemic changes and closures at multiple federal agencies have now reached the $242 billion budget of the Department of Education. With the agency’s workforce cut in half, and plans announced to shut it down, millions of students and families who rely on federal financial aid for higher education are facing a front-line assault.
State attorneys general in 20 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit challenging the agency’s gutting. According to the AGs, the department is a congressionally authorized executive agency with laws creating its various programs and funding streams. As such, the Executive Branch lacks the legal authority to unilaterally incapacitate or dismantle it without an act of Congress.
“The administration’s layoff is so massive that ED will be incapacitated and unable to perform essential functions,” said Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown. “As the lawsuit asserts, the administration’s actions will deprive students with special needs of critical resources and support. They will gut ED’s Office of Civil Rights, which protects students from discrimination and sexual assault. They would additionally hamstring the processing of financial aid, raising costs for college and university students who will have a harder time accessing loans, Pell Grants, and work study programs.”
“This administration may claim to be stopping waste and fraud, but it is clear that their only mission is to take away the necessary services, resources, and funding that students and their families need,” said New York Attorney General Leticia James.
While it is encouraging for state attorneys general to file legal challenges against administration actions, and education advocates to raise their voices and influence to thwart these changes, every day that passes without direct relief makes borrowers’ financial challenges harder and more difficult to resolve.
For example, even before legislation was enacted to avert a government shutdown in March, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted the
popular Pell Grant program that over six million students rely upon faced a $2.7 billion funding shortfall this year. Pell Grants, the single largest source of post-secondary education grants provided $31 billion in aid with approximately 6.5 million undergraduate students in FY2023. Without additional funding, the grant shortfall is expected to balloon to $10 billion in 2026. Currently, the maximum annual award per eligible student in the formula-based program is $7,395. Most Pell recipients come from families whose total income is $60,540 or less.
It is relevant to note that the new round of cuts to the Pell Grant program are not the first time that significant changes have been made. Instead, the new changes come in addition to others never restored. For example, in the aftermath of the Great Recession in FYs 2011 and 2012, the option for “year-round” Pell, which helped students make continuous progress toward their credentials was eliminated. That same action also cut the number of lifetime semesters a student can receive Pell Grants from 18 to 12 semesters and remains unchanged.
In response to CBO’s disturbing report, a coalition of over 100 higher education organizations signed a February letter appealing to committee chairs and ranking members in both the Senate and the House to act with dispatch. Its sig-
natories included an array of organizations such as: the American Association of University Women, Center for Law & Social Policy, Georgetown University Center on Education & the Workforce, NAACP, National Education Association, National Consumer Law Center, Student Borrower Protection Center, and the United Negro College Fund.
“If additional funding is not added to the Pell Grant program very soon, students could face eligibility or award cuts for the first time in more than a decade,” wrote the educators. “Students cannot afford such cuts during a time of rising living costs, and our economy cannot afford to have students lose access to the education and training they need to succeed in the labor market. The maximum Pell Grant already covers the lowest share of college costs in the program’s history, contributing to a persistent “affordability gap” that forces low- and middle-income students to either take out loans or forgo higher education and training entirely.” And speaking of loans— borrowers understand that when it takes longer to repay principal owed, interest fees rise as well. Further, fixed interest rates on graduate student loans come at a higher price than those for undergraduate loans. New federal direct loans disbursed between July 1, 2024 and July 1, 2025 carry 6.53 percent fixed interest rates for undergraduate loans, but an 8.08 percent
rate for graduate and professional loans.
In other words, higher education comes with higher costs. And the longer loan repayment takes, the higher and harder it becomes to fully repay them.
Today, many borrowers currently enrolled in affordable, income-based repayment options have been frustrated by a lack of online access to complete mandatory income recertification. Without that timely access, spikes in monthly payments ensue. As recently reported by Forbes, “This effectively keeps millions of student loan borrowers who had enrolled in SAVE stuck in a forbearance. The forbearance pauses payments and sets interest to zero, but the period does not count toward student loan forgiveness, including for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, or PSLF—a popular program for borrowers working in nonprofit or government settings.”
“For many of us, student loans were supposed to be a path forward, not something that holds us back,” said Mike Pierce, executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center. “We need leaders that prioritize policies that put working people first.”
(Charlene Crowell is a senior fellow with the Center for Responsible Lending. She can be reached at Charlene.crowell@responsiblelending.org”)
Black women leading the charge in homeownership
making homeownership not only desirable, but economically wise. Property is power, and when Black women thrive, entire communities flourish. Let’s continue to advocate for pol-
Inflation causing consumers to identify priorities
If you’ve been watching your wallet, you’re not alone. As Americans continue to navigate inflation, 76 percent report cutting back on spending, up from 67 percent in 2024, according to the second annual Wells Fargo Money Study.
The majority of Americans also say they are making tough financial choices to navigate their lives, including delaying plans with hefty price tags, such as travel, homeownership, education, marriage and retirement.
“There is a clear social narrative surrounding the question: ‘do I, and will I, have enough?’ The fact that these questions are being asked is positive because we know the earlier people focus on their money behaviors, the more time they have to course correct to achieve their goals,” said Michael Liersch, head of Advice and Planning at Wells Fargo.
Consumers continue to navigate higher than expected prices
An overwhelming 90 percent of those surveyed responded they feel “sticker shock” in one or more areas of common spending, including eating out, attending a concert, buying a bottle of water, or downloading a video game, and say actual costs are between 55 percent and 200 percent higher than what they expect.
“Spending is one of the most important factors to staying on track,” said Liersch. “I would encourage people to align their spending with what matters most to them.”
Nearly all Americans (94 percent) acknowledge that they want to do just that: align money choices with their values, and 86 percent want to be more intentional and thoughtful about spending.
According to Liersch, “These insights highlight that Americans are not just winging it. They are being extraordinarily introspective as they navigate their financial priorities.”
Americans judge themselves, not others Money can be an emotional topic, at times inciting envy, anxiety and secretiveness. While 87 percent of Americans say it makes no difference to them how much money another person has, 56 percent keep how much they have secret, and 32 percent of them say it’s because they are trying to avoid people judging them.
Americans also spend time thinking about how much money other people have—and wishing they could have more themselves. Forty-seven percent responded they often feel envious of how much money other people have, 37 percent admit to obsessing about getting rich, 34 percent admire social media millionaires, and 23 percent admit to sometimes overspending just to keep up with people around them.
“Americans appear comfortable with other people being authentic about their financial situation, which is encouraging,” Liersch says. “So now it’s time to overcome self-judgment and reset the frame of reference from others to one’s own personal benchmark.” Americans want help meeting goals
Eighty-six percent of respondents say they have a clear picture of what they want their money to do for them. And the vast majority are optimistic about how to do it: 87 percent say now is a good time to save and 65 percent say now is a good time to invest. Yet 61 percent say they need a mental reset, and are being held back by such factors as difficulty changing habits, lack of financial knowledge and other financial responsibilities. To overcome these challenges, Americans are seeking more financial advice year over year. Last year, 24 percent said they were seeking more advice from others; this year it’s 36 percent. Looking across generations, the desire for more advice is higher among teens (54 percent), gen Z adults (61 percent) and millennials (46 percent).
icies and practices that support and simplify the journey toward homeownership for Black women. After all, when we lift barriers, we empower not only individual buyers, but also the broader community they sustain and enrich.
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At a time when many are feeling cash-strapped, learning new ways to think about and manage money can help you take control of your financial future.
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Document Everything —If you talk to an agent or try to file and it doesn’t go through, keep the receipts. 5. Apply for Penalty Relief —If this is your first time messing up, ask about First-Time Abatement. 6. Be Honest About Hardship —You might qualify for “Currently Not Collectible” status.
get played. Handle your business like the adult you are and protect your peace —and your pockets. (Damon Carr can be reached at 412-216-1013.)
Guest Editorial
Strengthen security for Gov. Josh Shapiro
An arson fire forced Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family to flee the governor’s official residence in the middle of the night on the Jewish holiday of Passover, last Sunday. No injuries were reported but the fire left significant damage and forced Shapiro, his family and guests to evacuate the building early Sunday.
The suspect, identified as Cody Balmer, 38, of Harrisburg was arrested nearby later in the day, police said. Court records and interviews with family members show Balmer’s life unraveled dramatically in recent years before authorities say he scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and set the Democratic governor’s mansion ablaze with two Molotov cocktails.
This alarming attack could have been much worse if the suspect had encountered the governor.
There must also be a thorough investigation on how the suspect was able to enter the governor’s mansion.
In response to the arson attack, state police said an independent expert will review security at Shapiro’s official residence.
In this polarizing time, officials must strengthen security measures for the governor and his family to prevent such an attack from ever happening again.
As authorities work to determine a possible motive, their investigation must figure out whether the arson had anything to do with Shapiro’s politics or religious beliefs.
The suspect said he hated Shapiro and would have beaten him with a small sledgehammer.
The arson suspect called Shapiro a “monster” and cited the governor’s “plans” for Palestinian people, according to his arrest warrant.
The arson suspect, who has been charged with attempted homicide, terrorism and arson, has a history of mental health challenges, his family said.
Shapiro, who is Jewish, is a rising outspoken star within the Democratic Party and was considered as a possible vice presidential candidate for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
Political violence cannot be tolerated in America.
(Reprinted from the Philadelphia Tribune)
Looking for a rapist and a criminal?
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—Congress-
woman Jasmine Crockett fearlessly called it as she saw it, suggesting that if the former President is looking for rapists and criminals, he should “look in the mirror.” Her bold statement stands out as a sharp critique, one that few, including myself, had articulated so directly before.
Crockett’s words resonate amid recent legal developments. According to an article by Marc Levy, a federal judge rejected the former President’s attempt to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by the Central Park Five, who were wrongfully convicted in 1989 for the rape and beating of a jogger, spending over a decade in prison before their exoneration. U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone in Philadelphia denied the motion to dismiss, allowing the case to proceed. The five men sued after the former President made false and defamatory statements about their guilt during last fall’s presidential campaign, notably in a debate with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, where he misstated key facts of the case.
Crockett’s courage to speak truth to power reflects what many hesitate to say. Black women, in particular, were not swayed by the former President’s rhetoric during the 2024 election. We showed up, voting correctly 92 percent of the time. While some didn’t
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vote or donate to Kamala Harris’ campaign, most Black women had our sister’s back, as we always do.
To our Black Brothers, we thank those who stood with us. However, we were disappointed by the few who resisted supporting a woman, saying, “I don’t want no woman telling me what to do.” Those Brothers overlooked the strength of Black women—like their mothers—who helped them survive. Some didn’t vote or contribute financially, but we understand their pain. Black women, carrying double that burden, worked tirelessly to push us forward. We forgive those who faltered and celebrate those who stood tall.
To our Hispanic Brothers and Sisters, the 2024 election was a missed opportunity for many. Those who didn’t vote or voted against their interests now face the consequences, with ICE enforcing deportations against those who sought a better life in America. Like Black people, who face racism daily despite our contributions to building this nation, many
Hispanics now feel unwelcome.
As for White men, who hold significant power in this country, I had low expectations for most, though some did the right thing. As a group, they could end the chaos we face if they chose to. I thank those who acted with integrity, like George Clooney and Mark Cuban, and urge others to address the mess created by their peers. White men benefit from a system built on the exploitation of Native Americans and enslaved Africans, including my ancestors. Those who reject the sins of their forefathers have a chance to make amends, but many missed that opportunity in 2024 by not supporting the most qualified candidate.
There’s still time to act. Paying reparations could ease the pain inflicted by centuries of injustice, allowing some to live well at the expense of others. Together, we can confront the systemic issues that perpetuate inequality.
Is a rapist and criminal really the best choice to “Make America Great”? For most of us, America has never been great, so we can’t say “again.” We deserve better—a leader who unites, not divides, and who honors the contributions of all.
(Dr. E. Faye Williams is President of The Dick Gregory Society.)
Confederates whistle Dixie tunes and Black MAGA applauds
In Donald Trump’s second term, the faces of compliance are no longer just White. They include Black MAGA supporters who’ve chosen silence—even solidarity—as racism escalates from campaign rhetoric to federal policy. When Trump returned to the White House, he did so with a platform not just soaked in bigotry but engineered to roll back civil rights and diversity efforts on every front. And while his White base cheered, many of his Black allies—those donning MAGA hats and taking up seats on the frontlines of his rallies—chose loyalty over principle, muting themselves as a wave of White nationalist policymaking targets their communities. Their silence began long before Inauguration Day. During the 2024 campaign, Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally drew fire after a comedian on the lineup referred to Puerto Rico as “garbage.” But that wasn’t the only racist moment. As Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, one of Trump’s most visible Black surrogates, walked onto the stage, the campaign blasted “Dixie”—a song revered by the Confederacy and White nationalists. Donalds said nothing. And neither did the rest of Black MAGA. That same silence echoed in Springfield, Ohio, when Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance, spread a false and racist claim that Haitian immigrants were “eating cats and dogs.” The fabrication was met with horror from civil rights advocates and journalists. But Trump’s Black supporters? Not a word.
Black MAGA loyalists, many of whom cite values, religion, and personal ambition as their rationale, have essentially normalized the very racism that their grandparents fought to dismantle. Pew Research shows that while only 4 percent of Black Americans identify as
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Republicans, those who do often express a belief that the GOP better represents their values—even as those values are trampled by the very administration they support. One study published in Sociological Inquiry found that Black Republicans often “reframe racism in a way that makes their alignment with White conservatives more palatable,” even when it involves rationalizing policies that harm Black communities. And harm is precisely what Trump’s policies are doing. Since taking office, Trump has issued a barrage of executive orders aimed at eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives across the federal government. Agencies that serve minority communities have faced massive defunding, DEI offices have been shuttered, and civil rights enforcement has all but disappeared. As noted in The Hill, the goal is not just the destruction of policy—it’s the erasure of progress itself.
“Every act of Trump’s second term has been a White-nationalist signal,” wrote one analyst in The American Prospect, calling MAGA an “identity movement” that champions White grievance over democratic principle. There is little space for Blackness, except as a prop. And yet, some Black Trump supporters defend the administration with defiance. One such supporter, who canvassed for Trump in 2024, told The Independent
he was called the N-word by fellow conservatives. Rather than walking away, he doubled down on his allegiance. The consequences of this allegiance are becoming deadly clear. As TIME reported, nearly 20 percent of Trump supporters said freeing the slaves was a mistake. According to The Washington Post, support for Trump has long been fueled more by racial resentment than economic concerns, and that resentment has now translated into policy.
A report from Press Watch concluded that Trump’s base continues to be driven by a desire to protect White dominance and suppress nonwhite progress, particularly through culture war battles over schools, immigration, and federal hiring. Even academic journals have noted that wearing a MAGA hat has become “a proxy for racialized identity”—an affirmation of White supremacy, no matter who’s wearing it. Meanwhile, The Conversation documented how MAGA’s rise has coincided with increased armed intimidation at polling places, violent rhetoric against journalists, and calls to monitor so-called “urban” neighborhoods—all with Trump’s encouragement. The Black MAGA base has not only failed to object—they’ve offered Trump moral cover. Whether out of personal ambition, political opportunity, or delusion, they’ve made peace with racists, while the administration they uphold works tirelessly to erase the freedoms won through generations of Black struggle. As The American Prospect put it: “Trump’s MAGA identity is a movement rooted in White identity politics. That some Black Americans have chosen to stand inside of it doesn’t make it less racist—it makes it more dangerous”
The Trump Administration’s dangerous coal exemptions
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—Another day, another deadly move that defies logic, morality, and economic common sense. Last week, the Trump administration granted nearly 70 coal-fired power plants a two-year exemption from the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. The move allows them to emit increased levels of hazardous pollutants like mercury, arsenic, and lead. Mercury is a potent neurotoxin, particularly harmful to children and pregnant women, that causes developmental disorders and other severe health issues. The standards established to limit such emissions have been instrumental in reducing these toxins in our environment. Once all coal plants were brought into compliance, the EPA estimated the standards would prevent 11,000 premature deaths, 4,700 heart attacks, and 130,000 asthma attacks each year.
By rolling back the most recent update to those protections, the administration is senselessly prioritizing outdated, polluting energy sources over the well-being of American communities—maybe your community. The exempted power plants and coal-burning units are in every region of the country—from Arizona to Pennsylvania, Wyoming to Alabama, from the Dakotas down to Texas, and in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and throughout the Midwest.
This decision is not only a public health concern but also an economic misstep. The energy market has been shifting away from coal for years, with cleaner and more cost-effective alternatives like renewables
taking the lead. Attempting to revive the coal industry through deregulation ignores market trends and the growing demand for sustainable energy solutions.? The administration’s shallow argument that this is about energy security, and even national security, does not pass the laugh test. True energy security lies in diversifying our energy sources and investing in resilient, clean technologies – not in propping up an industry in its death throes that if revived would only poison and cause the actual deaths of Americans by the tens of thousands.
Communities across the nation, especially those near these coal plants, will bear the brunt of increased pollution. This reckless regulatory rollback is just one of the latest moves in this administration’s efforts to undermine decades of progress in environmental and health protections.
So how do we hold our leaders accountable and pursue policies that prioritize the health of our people and our planet?
One way is to work with the organizations and community groups pushing tirelessly to move us towards a cleaner, healthier future.
Civil society groups—those non-governmental organizations,
associations, and institutions that advocate and fight for the causes Americans care about—play not just a vital role in our democracy, but a vital role in protecting our interests, our health, and even our lives.
Take the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign as one example. A single campaign. Since 2010, that campaign has helped retire more than 380 coal-fired power plants. The energy from those plants has been and remains easily replaceable by other sources. And by reducing the burning of that dirtiest of dirty fossil fuels, we saved American lives and entire communities.
In fact, the retirement of all that coal burning has now saved nearly 63,000 lives! And it has saved Americans $29 billion in health care costs. That is due to all the heart attacks, cancer, asthma attacks and other lung disease, and heavy metal poisoning that the closure of these plants stopped in American communities from coast to coast.
So why on earth would we backslide? Why would we expose millions more Americans—especially the young children most at risk—to the irreversible effects of brain-damaging neurotoxins like mercury? Or developing fetuses to the risk of the birth defects these toxins cause?
These are the questions we need to be asking. But even as they make our air less safe, don’t hold your own breath waiting for an honest answer from this administration—because it doesn’t exist.
(Ben Jealous is the Executive Director of the Sierra Club and a Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.)
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Still Black and still proud
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - James Brown had a way of reminding us to take pride in our Blackness. We can use some of that today. As an international music icon, James Brown emerged as one of the founding fathers of funk with a musical style that often profoundly influenced R&B, jazz, and rock. Becoming a leading voice in the Black community during turbulent racial times, he was affectionately known as the “Godfather of Soul”. He used his platform as a performer to promote social change and political activism. As the Black community was attacked internally and externally, his inspiring messages of Black pride and hope touched on self-doubt, inequality, fear, and intimidation. “Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud” was a song that resonated with Blacks of all ages and became an anthem of the Black Power movement. Brown wrote the song after feeling that the Black community had lost its pride. When we think of the “Godfather of Soul,” we don’t associate him with being a lifelong Republican. A fact that outraged many Black Americans, particularly when he endorsed Richard Nixon for re-election. Brown supported Nixon based on their shared belief in individualist policies and the notion that hard work, and hard work alone, would be the key to success for Black Americans. The self-taught musician was a staunch Black Republican and believer in the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” philosophy. By gaining Nixon’s confidence, he found it necessary to use his platform to explain the plight of Black America to the president. Today, we find ourselves entering a turbulent era reminiscent of our dark past. At times, Trump is compared with Nixon as a president governing through fear and intimidation. Fear is complex,
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particularly when fear drives silence. Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is one of the few Senate Republicans willing to stand up against the bullying tactics of President Trump. During Trump’s second term, she has shown a willingness to break with the president by criticizing his policies, opposing some of his Cabinet nominees, and voting to overturn his tariff on Canada. She is also willing to speak publicly about the challenge of governing in fear. Recently, Murkowski spoke about how the threat of political retaliation from President Trump is real. It makes her anxious when she speaks out about the presidential executive orders and cuts to federal agencies. “We are all afraid,” Murkowski told a summit of nonprofit and tribal leaders in her native Alaska.
Trump has created an environment of fear, control, and manipulation in Washington, making clear that those who oppose him politically will pay a price. Most Republicans in the House and Senate play it safe by bowing down to the president, remaining silent, and abdicating their oversight duties as members of the legislative branch. As Trump instills fear in those who cross him politically, he has created an executive branch that resembles an organized crime syndicate. As a felon within the White House, Trump has become a type of “godfather” or crime boss who will abuse the significant power and influence that comes with his elected office.
Fear has two sides. As Trump causes those under his influence to work in fear, he, too, is fearful. He fears the Black vote and its potential when it performs at full strength. He is afraid of Black Power because he can’t control and manipulate it. He is fearful of the heritage and legacy of the Black community because of its resiliency and its ability to overcome hardship. He hates Barack Obama because his success and rise to power represent a timeless blueprint for people of color to follow when it is fully executed.
He is fearful of the educated Black women because most are not cowards who will bow down to a “godfather.” Trump is afraid of Black history because if young Blacks tap into their heritage, they cannot be stopped. He fears how a powerful “Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud” message can re-engage and ignite a young generation within the Black community to get involved and resist. Most of all, those who support White supremacy are fearful of the legacy of Blanche Bruce, even though most people don’t know who he is. The story of Blanche Bruce is a major reason Black history is being erased. At a time when White leaders are perpetuating fear while at the same time being its victim, Bruce’s story kills the notion that Whites are a superior people.
Blanche Bruce was born in slavery and later became the first elected African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate. In 1874, while Mississippi remained under postwar military control, the state’s progressive Republican-dominated state legislature elected Bruce to the U.S. Senate. Several years earlier, that same legislature sent the U.S. Senate its first African American member when it elected Hiram Revels to fill out the remaining months of an unexpired term.
Emotional appeals, biased White doctors, and dead Black babies
When Thurgood Marshall failed to persuade the Supreme Court justices against segregated public schools, he resorted to the doll test evidence for its emotional appeal.
During the doll test, Black children received both a Black and a White doll. The children accepted the White doll, but when asked which doll was ugly and resembled them, they pointed to the Black doll, and several ran out of the room crying.
Marshall’s colleague, Spottswood William Robinson III, said it was “crazy and insulting to persuade a court of law with examples of crying children and dolls.”
Robinson was wrong.
The justices couldn’t ignore the doll test results, which revealed that the “separate but equal” doctrine left Black children with an abiding sense of inferiority, and the Supreme Court unanimously declared segregated public schools unconstitutional in 1954.
In 1963, Rev. James Bevel organized a children’s march in Birmingham, Alabama. More than a thousand students walked out of school and marched to the mayor’s office to demand the end of segregation in public accommodations.
Martin Luther King Jr. was opposed to the children’s march because it would expose students to violence, and, more importantly, the emotional appeal was not worth the risk.
Birmingham police used firehoses and police dogs to break up the children’s march.
The televised images of Black children being sprayed with high-pressure water and attacked by dogs compelled President John F. Kennedy to publicly support federal civil rights legislation.
Rev. Bevel’s tactic was successful, but unlike Robinson, King wasn’t wrong.
Marshall used “crying children” as evidence, but he did not endanger any children. The organizers of the Children’s March believed that the outcome justified the methods. King understood that outcomes were beyond an organizer’s control, but organizers were responsible and should be held accountable for the tactics they used to achieve their goals.
King thought the means were more important than the ends, but “by any means necessary” is now the norm.
For example, in a 6-3 ruling, the United States Supreme Court invalidated the use of Affirmative Action in college admissions in 2023. In her dissenting
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opinion, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson addressed why Affirmative Action was still necessary in 21st-century America. Jackson cited one study for its emotional appeal, which turned out to be incorrect. Jackson had written, “Black (and Latino) children with heart conditions are more likely to die than their White counterparts.” Jackson backed up this claim with a brief submitted by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), which referenced a 2020 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The PNAS study stated when Black babies are cared for by White doctors, 430 more of them die for every 100,000 births than White newborns. When Black doctors take care of newborns, the death rate for Black babies is only 173 per 100,000 births higher than for White babies. This number represents a difference of 257 deaths per 100,000 births and a 58 percent reduction in the racial mortality differential.
Based on this data, the researchers concluded that racial concordance, which is when infants are cared for by physicians of the same race, substantially decreased the likelihood of infant mortality for Black newborns. The researchers also suggested that spontaneous bias, an unconscious tendency to lean against something, harbored by White physicians is potentially driving higher Black infant mortality rates.
The AAMC brief stated, “For high-risk Black newborns, having a Black physician is tantamount to a miracle drug: it more than doubles the likelihood that the baby will live. Yet due to the enduring and significant underrepresentation of minorities in the health professions, many minority patients will not receive care from a racially diverse team or from providers who were trained in a diverse environment.”
It’s reasonable that Jackson would use this study to demonstrate the need for more Black doctors and why Affirmative
America’s
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - “For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.” — Thomas Paine
In a stunning but unsurprising act of lawlessness, the Trump administration has refused to return a man wrongfully deported to El Salvador, even after a U.S. court ordered the government to do so. With this decision, the administration has crossed a chilling threshold—one that places it in open defiance of the Constitution, the courts, and the very foundation of our democracy.
This is no longer the erosion of democratic norms. This is their outright collapse.
The deportee, who fled danger in his home country and sought asylum in the United States, was forcibly removed by federal agents despite a judicial order halting his deportation.
His fate, now uncertain in a country he fled in fear, is a grotesque reminder that for many in today’s America, due process is not a right—it’s a suggestion.
The refusal to comply with a lawful court order is not just an immigration issue. It is a constitutional crisis.
The executive branch, once again, is signaling that it is not bound by the
Action was still necessary in the 21st century.
However, in 2024, a different set of researchers attempted to replicate the 2020 study Jackson cited, but these researchers didn’t reach similar results. The researchers found that the previous study failed to account for the low birth weights of Black newborns.
These researchers published their findings in PNAS. They found that after adjusting for the effects of very low birth weights on mortality, the estimated racial concordance effect is significantly reduced and frequently becomes statistically insignificant. Their findings called into doubt the importance of physician-patient racial matching in predicting Black newborn death, and their findings implied that reducing the prevalence of such low birth weights among Black newborns may remain the key to closing the Black-White disparity.
These researchers pointed out a methodological error in the 2020 study, but it wasn’t an error; it was an intentional oversight.
Do No Harm, a medical and policy advocacy group that opposes identity politics in medical research, has uncovered that Brad N. Greenwood, the principal author of the 2020 study, knew from the beginning what the other set of researchers found out in 2024. However, Greenwood purposefully withheld that information since it contradicted the “racial concordance” argument, which promoted more Black physicians, and the “spontaneous bias” theory, which blamed White doctors. Greenwood noted why he suppressed the information. He said if we’re telling the story from the perspective of saving Black infants, we don’t want to emphasize information that undermines the narrative.
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(TriceEdneyWire.com) — “For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.” — Thomas Paine
The story circulating from Greenwood’s 2020 study was that “White doctors are biased against Black babies.” Scientific literature has mentioned the study 507 times, and 340 news sites, including the Washington Post, USA Today, and CNN, have covered it. A Supreme Court justice even endorsed the misleading narrative. Greenwood accomplished his goal “by any means necessary,” but the method he used was not worth the cost because the loss of public trust affects not only him, but the entire scientific community.
slide into tyranny
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rule of law.
This is how democracies die—not with a dramatic coup, but with a series of quiet refusals, deliberate omissions, and willful negligence. There is a name for governments that imprison, exile, or disappear individuals without judicial review: authoritarian. From Franco’s Spain to Pinochet’s Chile, history has no shortage of examples where unchecked power replaced fair trials with forced removals and “administrative detentions.” And in our own American past, we’ve seen this brand of injustice before—from the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II to the mass deportations during “Operation Wetback” in the 1950s. The common thread? The normalization of state violence cloaked in bureaucratic indifference.
Our Constitution was designed with
a system of checks and balances—a safeguard against the very tyranny we now face. But those safeguards are failing. When courts are ignored, when Congress is silent, and when federal agents act as enforcers of political will instead of protectors of the people, we are left with a government unmoored from accountability.
Let’s be clear: this is not an isolated event. It is part of a broader pattern of constitutional degradation. From the violent suppression of protestors to the vilification of immigrants and the weaponization of executive orders, we are witnessing the federal government operate with impunity. This moment demands outrage. It demands resistance. And above all, it demands clarity. We are not on the edge of authoritarianism—we are in it. Our charge, as citizens and as a civil rights movement, is to expose this regime for what it is and to organize with relentless determination to hold it accountable. The stakes are not abstract. They are real, they are human, and they are urgent. If we are to preserve what is left of our democracy, we must act like democracy itself is at stake —because it is.
At the 1880 Republican National Convention, Bruce became the first African American to win any votes for national office at a major party’s nominating convention with eight votes for vice president. He served by advocating just treatment and civil rights for both Blacks and Native Americans while opposing policies excluding Chinese immigrants. Much of his time and energy was devoted to fighting fraud and corruption in federal elections. Once the conservatives gained power in the Mississippi state legislature, they passed a new constitution disenfranchising Black voters. All former Confederate states eventually did the same, excluding Bruce and other Blacks from the political system and keeping him from returning to the Senate.
Blanche Bruce is an inspiration and an example of the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” philosophy, which is not a conservative principle. Progressives have always lived by it; we just want the barriers removed. (David W. Marshall is the founder of the faith-based organization TRB: The Reconciled Body and author of the book God Bless Our Divided America.)
In a stunning but unsurprising act of lawlessness, the Trump administration has refused to return a man wrongfully deported to El Salvador, even after a U.S. court ordered the government to do so. With this decision, the administration has crossed a chilling threshold—one that places it in open defiance of the Constitution, the courts, and the very foundation of our democracy.
This is no longer the erosion of democratic norms. This is their outright collapse.
The deportee, who fled danger in his home country and sought asylum in the United States, was forcibly removed by federal agents despite a judicial order halting his deportation. His fate, now uncertain in a country he fled in fear, is a grotesque reminder that for many in today’s America, due process is not a right—it’s a suggestion.
The refusal to comply with a lawful court order is not just an immigra-
tion issue. It is a constitutional crisis. The executive branch, once again, is signaling that it is not bound by the rule of law.
This is how democracies die—not with a dramatic coup, but with a series of quiet refusals, deliberate omissions, and willful negligence. There is a name for governments that imprison, exile, or disappear individuals without judicial review: authoritarian. From Franco’s Spain to Pinochet’s Chile, history has no shortage of examples where unchecked power replaced fair trials with forced removals and “administrative detentions.” And in our own American past, we’ve seen this brand of injustice before—from the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II to the mass deportations during “Operation Wetback” in the 1950s. The common thread? The normalization of state violence cloaked in bureaucratic indifference.
Our Constitution was designed with a system of checks and balances—a safeguard against the very tyranny we now face. But those safeguards are failing. When courts are ignored,
when Congress is silent, and when federal agents act as enforcers of political will instead of protectors of the people, we are left with a government unmoored from accountability.
Let’s be clear: this is not an isolated event. It is part of a broader pattern of constitutional degradation. From the violent suppression of protestors to the vilification of immigrants and the weaponization of executive orders, we are witnessing the federal government operate with impunity. This moment demands outrage. It demands resistance. And above all, it demands clarity. We are not on the edge of authoritarianism—we are in it.
Our charge, as citizens and as a civil rights movement, is to expose this regime for what it is and to organize with relentless determination to hold it accountable. The stakes are not abstract. They are real, they are human, and they are urgent.
If we are to preserve what is left of our democracy, we must act like democracy itself is at stake —because it is.
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Effective with the August 3, 2020, Sheriff Sale of real estate and all such monthly public sales thereafter shall be conducted virtually through video conferencing technology or live streaming. ALL PARTICIPANTS OR BIDDERS MUST BE REGISTERED AT LEAST 7 DAYS BEFORE THE DATE OF THE SALE IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE (VIRTUALLY OR IN PERSON) AT THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SALES OF REAL ESTATE. REGISTRATION WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY SHERIFF’S WEBSITE: SHERIFFALLEGHENYCOUNTY.COM. The Successful bidder will pay full amount of bid in CASH, CERTIFIED CHECK OR CASHIERS CHECK at time of sale, otherwise the property will be resold at the next regular Sheriffs Sale; provided, that if the sale is made on MONDAY, MAY 5, 2025 the bidder may pay ten percent of purchasing price but not less than 75.00 in CASH, CERTIFIED CHECK, OR CASHIERS CHECK THE DAY IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE SALE, e.g. TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2025, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 8:30AM AND 2:30PM IN THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE. Failure to pay the 10% deposit will have you banned from future Sheriff Sales. And the balance in CASH, CERTIFIED CHECK, OR CASHIERS CHECK, on or before MONDAY, MAY 12, 2025, at 10:00 O’CLOCK A.M. The property will be resold at the next regular Sheriff’s Sale if the balance is not paid, and in such case all money’s paid in at the original sale shall be applied to any deficiency in the price of which property is resold, and provided further that if the successful bidder is the plaintiff in the execution the bidder shall pay full amount of bid ON OR BEFORE THE FIRST MONDAY OF THE FOLLOWING MONTH, OTHERWISE WRIT WILL BE RETURNED AND MARKED “REAL ESTATE UNSOLD” and all monies advanced by plaintiff will be applied as required by COMMON PLEAS COURT RULE 3129.2 (1) (a).
FORFEITED SALES WILL BE POSTED IN THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE AND LISTED ON THE SHERIFF OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY WEB SITE.
AMENDMENT OF THE CODE SECOND CLASS COUNTY NEW CHAPTER 475 THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY CODE OF ORDINANCES, CHAPTER 475, ENTITLED TAXATION IS HEREBY AMENDED THROUGH THE CREATION ARTICLE XII, ENTITLED, “SHERIFF SALES”, AND COMPRISED AS FOLLOWS: SUBSECTION 475-60: RECORDING OF DEEDS AND NOTIFICATION OF SHERIFFS SALES TO TAXING BODIES.
A. FOR ANY REAL PROPERTY OFFERED AT SHERIFFS SALE DUE TO NONPAYMENT OF REAL ESTATE TAXES AND PURCHASED BY A THIRD PARTY THROUGH SUCH SALE, THE SHERIFF SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR FILING THE DEED AND, WITHIN SEVEN DAYS OF FILING OF THE SHERIFFS DEED, PROVIDE WRITTEN NOTICE OF THE CONVEYANCE TO THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY OFFICE OF PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS. THE WRITTEN NOTICE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBSECTION SHALL INCLUDE THE DATE OF THE SALE, IDENTIFICATION OF THE PROPERTY SOLD BY BOTH ADDRESS AND LOT AND BLOCK NUMBER, AND THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE INDIVIDUALS OR OTHER ENTITY THAT PURCHASED THE PROPERTY.
B. AT THE TIME OF THE SALE THE SHERIFF SHALL COLLECT ALL REQUISITE FILING COSTS, REALTY TRANSFER TAXES AND FEES, NECESSARY TO PROPERLY RECORD THE DEED.
C. WITHIN SEVEN DAYS OF RECEIPT OF WRITTEN NOTICE FROM THE SHERIFF, THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY OFFICE OF PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS SHALL FORWARD COPIES OF SUCH NOTICE TO ALL TAXING BODIES LEVYING REAL ESTATE TAXES ON THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE MUNICIPALITY AND SCHOOL DISTRICT WHERE THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED.
AS REQUIRED BY SECTION 14 OF ACT NO. 77 OF 1986, THE COST OF ALL DOCUMENTARY STAMPS FOR REAL ESTATE TRANSFER TAXES (STATE, LOCAL, AND SCHOOL) WILL BE DEDUCTED BY THE SHERIFF FROM THE PROCEEDS OF THE SALE. Purchasers must pay the necessary recording fees. Pursuant to Rule 3136 P.R.C.P. NOTICE is hereby given that a schedule of distribution will be filed by the Sheriff not later than 30 days from date of sale and that distribution will be made in accordance with the schedule unless exceptions are filed thereto within 10 days thereafter. No further notice of the filing of the schedule of distribution will be given.
A Land Bank formed under 68 Pa. C.S.A. 2101 et seq. may exercise its right to bid pursuant to 68 Pa. C.S.A. 2117(d) (2) through Pa. C.S.A. 2117(d) (4) on certain properties listed for sale under the municipal claims and Tax Lien Law, 53 P.S. 7101 et seq. The Sheriff of Allegheny County will honor the terms of payment which the Land Bank has entered with any municipalities having a claim against the property. If the Land Bank tenders a bid under Pa. C.S.A. 2117(d)(3) or 2117(d)(4) the property will not be offered for sale to others and the Property will be considered sold to the Land Bank for the Upset Price as defined in P.S.7279 and no other bids will be accepted.
NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT ALL SHERIFFS DEEDS TENDERED TO
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NOTICE: The undersigned, as evidenced by the signature(s) to this notice and the acceptance and recording of this deed, (is/are) fully cognizant of the fact that the undersigned may not be obtaining the right of protection against subsidence, as to the property herein conveyed, resulting from coal mining operations and that the purchased property, herein conveyed, may be protected from damage due to mine subsidence by a private contract with the owners of the economic interest in the coal. This notice is inserted herein to comply with the Bituminous Mine Subsidence and Land Conservation Act of 1966. as amended 1980. Oct. 10, P.L 874, No. 156 §1.
“This document may not sell, convey, transfer, include, or insure the title to the coal and right of support underneath the surface land described or referred to herein and the owner or owners of such coal may have the complete legal right to remove all of such coal, and in that connection damage may result to the surface of the land, any house, building or other structure on or in such land.”
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Jill M. Fein, Esquire/ Hill Wallack LLP
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ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 1000 Floral Vale Boulevard, Suite 300, Yardley, PA 19067
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 579-7700
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Scott
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A TWO STORY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 526 MAGAZINE ST, CARNEGIE, PA 15106 DEED BOOK VOLUME 4650, PAGE 173. BLOCK& LOT NO. 102-J-126.
3MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) MAJESTIC LANE DEVELOPMENT LLC
CASE NO. GD-22-006941
************* DEBT $123,565.67
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
JOSHUA G. STEPHAN, DAVID M. BELCZYK, CHRISTOPHER J. BARONZZI
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) PORTER WRIGHT MORRIS & ARTHUR
LLP SIX PPG PLACE, THIRD FLOOR, PITTSBURGH PA 15222
*************
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 235-1480
SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF JEFFERSON HILLS: HAVING ERECTED THEREON VACANT
AGRICULTIJRAL LAND BEING KNOWN AS AND BEING NUMBERED COUNCIL PLACE, CLAIRTON, PA 15025, AS RE-
CORDED IN PLAN BOOK VOLUME 306, PAGE 120, BEING A PORTION OF THE LANDS RECORDED IN DEED BOOK VOLUME 16731, PAGE 106 AND DEED BOOK VOLUME 12250, PAGE 206, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0881-A-00250-0000-00.
5MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) VIVECA R. JONES CASE NO. MG-19-000066
************* DEBT $261,603.36
************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
CHELSEA A. NIXON, ESQUIRE
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 216 HADDON AVENUE, SUITE 201 WESTMONT, NJ 08108
SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, TOWNSHIP OF HARRISON: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 220 CHINKAPIN DRIVE, NATRONA HEIGHTS, PENNSYLVANIA 15065. DEED BOOK VOLUME 16305, PAGE 543. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1846-S-000230000-00.
6MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) Gregory Morris
CASE NO. MG-24-000079
************* DEBT $121,880.38
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
The Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 1310 industrial Boulevard, 1• Floor, Suite 101, Southampton, PA 18966
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 215-942-9690
SHORT DESCRIPTION: lo the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 15th Ward, City of Pittsburgh: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 774 MONTCLAIR STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15217. DEED BOOK VOLUME 10776, PAGE 649. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER. 88-E-64.
7MAY25
DEFENDANT(S)
Cherry Kay Bierer
******************** CASE NO. MG-24-000690
************* DEBT $77,612.92
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) The Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC
************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 1310 industrial Boulevard, 1• Floor, Suite 101, Southampton, PA 18966
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 215-942-9690
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Brentwood: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A TWO-STORY BRICK AND ALUMINUM DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 3512 DAUPHIN STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15227. DEED BOOK VOLUME 5753, PAGE 593. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER. 188-A-37.
8MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) PATRICK J. MULLIGAN ******************** CASE NO. MG-24-000540 ************* DEBT $159,954.43
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) KML LAW GROUP, P.C.
************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET Philadelphia, PA 19106
*************
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 627-1322
SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, TOWNSHIP OF COLLIER: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 100 SCOTT WAY, CARNEGIE, PA 15106. DEED BOOK 14282, PAGE 81. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 147-F-34.
9MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) LACY FRANKLIN RICHARDSON, REGINA LOUISE RICHARDSON CASE NO. MG-24-000943 ************* DEBT $120,575.93 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) KML LAW GROUP, P.C. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET Philadelphia, PA 19106
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (215) 627-1322
SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 7TH WARD CITY OF MCKEESPORT: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1501 LIBRARY AVENUE, MC KEESPORT, PA 15132. DEED BOOK 8570, PAGE 22. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 382-C-l96.
10MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) JOHN W. PUTZ JUNIOR AKA JOHN W. PUTZ, JR. ******************** CASE NO. MG-24-000355 DEBT $167,654.75
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) KML LAW GROUP, P.C.
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET Philadelphia, PA 19106
SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, TOWNSHIP OF WEST DEER: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 260 SHAGBARK DRIVE, CHESWICK, PA 15024. DEED BOOK 10670, PAGE 256. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1360-H-128.
11MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) JAMES R. JOHNS, DAVID K. ZEILER ******************** CASE NO. MG-24-000912 ************* DEBT $27,497.47
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) KML LAW GROUP, P.C.
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) SUITE 5000, 701 MARKET STREET Philadelphia, PA 19106
SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 16TH WARD CTIY OF PTITSBURGH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2311 ECCLES STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15210. DEED BOOK 17475, PAGE 393. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 13-L-6.
12MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) RICHARD S. TEXTER AND KRISTA L. TEXTER CASE NO. MG-24-000828 DEBT $184,748.57 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Jill M. Fein, Esquire I Hill Wallack LLP ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 1000 Floral Vale Boulevard, Suite
Number 0221-D-003 I00000-00
15MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) RENE C. MORENO; KIMBERLY G. MORENO aka KIMBERLEY G. MORENO CASE NO.MG-19-000064 DEBT $596,470.37 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Jeff Calcagno, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) Brock & Scott, PLLC 2011 RENAISSANCE BOULEVARD, SUITE 100 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406
************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (844) 856-6646 ************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Penosylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF MUNHALL Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 425 EAST 11TH AVENUE, HOMESTEAD, PA 15120. Deed Book Volume 19019, Page 85. Block and Lot Number 0130-L-001210000-02
16MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) Penn Hills School District and Municipality of Penn Hills VS. DEFENDANT(S) JEANA LASHAWN EMERICK ******************** CASE NO.GD 23-009536 DEBT $23,087.63
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Jennifer L. Cerce,
HILLS, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY,
OF PENNSYLVANIA. HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELL-
KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 571 GROVE ROAD, VERONA, PA 15147. DESCRIBED AT BOOK 11265, PAGE 269, INSTRUMENT NO. 2002-113521, PARCEL NUMBER BLOCK, LOT 229-R-119. 20MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) Byron O. Knight, Mary
24MAY25
Walter S. Opiela, Jr.
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Stephen M. Hladik, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) Hladik, Onorato and Federman, LLP 298 Wissahickon Avenue, North Wales, PA 19454 *************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWNSHIP OF
MARSHALL:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 5184 WEXFORD RUN ROAD, WEXFORD, PA 15090. DEED BOOK VOLUME 10480, PAGE 161. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1822-M-2.
25MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) CHARLES E. VAUGHN JR ********************
CASE NO.MG-23-000685
DEBT $130,905.54
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
CHELSEA A. NIXON, ESQUIRE
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 216 HADDON AVENUE, SUITE 201 WESTMONT, NJ 08108
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (856) 858-7080
SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, MU-
NICIPALITY OF PENN HILLS:
PARCEL 1: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 11697 ALTHEA ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15235 aka 11697 ALTHEA DRIVE, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15235. DEED BOOK VOLUME 13797, PAGE 518. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0449-E-00079-0000-00. PARCEL 2: VACANT LAND BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 11693 ALTHEA ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15235 DEED BOOK VOLUME 13797, PAGE 518. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0449-E-000840000-00.
26MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) KASSANDRA A. MONTEDORO ******************** CASE NO.MG-24-000878 ************* DEBT $133,848.55
SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEAL TH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, TOWNSHIP OF NORTH VERSAILLES: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 651 OVERHILL DRIVE, NORTH VERSAILLES, PENNSYLVANIA 15137. DEED BOOK VOLUME 15862, PAGE 378. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0459-A-00067-000000.
27MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) MICHAEL F MCNAMARA AND DEBORAH MCNAMARA CASE NO.GD-24-003653
************* DEBT $105,406.65
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Robert E. Smithson, Jr., Esq. / Court ID No. 329691
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 7660 Imperial Way, Suite 121, Allentown, Pennsylvania 18195
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 27th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh:
Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 3207 CENTRAL AVENUE, PI1TSBURGH, PA 15212. Deed Book Volume 11005, Page 257. Block and Lot Number 76-K-102.
28MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) Ramon H. Waldon CASE NO.GD-24-007367 ************* DEBT $5,630.03
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Fred C. Jug, Jr.
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 310 Grant Street, Suite 1109, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-255-6500
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh, 25th Ward:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A PERRY POINT PLAN DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 749 CHAUTAUQUA COURT, PITTSBURGH, PA 15214. DEED BOOK 18332, PAGE 506. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 045-S-03900-1.
29MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) JOSEPH C. DORNETTO ******************** CASE NO. AR-24-004832 ************* DEBT $8,393.00
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Fred C. Jug, Jr. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 310 Grant Street, Suite 1109, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Richland Township:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A BEECH STREET AT RICHLAND HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 401 BEECH STREET, GIBSONIA, PA 15044. DEED BOOK 17561, PAGE 259. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1665-F-00333-0000-00.
SONNY BOY
30MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) Cromwell Properties LLC
CASE NO. GD-24-012000
DEBT $709,610.45
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
J. Michael McCague, Esquire
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 408 Cedar Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-803-3690
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of Pittsburgh (12th Ward): PARCEL1 HAVING ERECTED THEREON A COM-
MERCIAL GARAGE BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 617-623 N. DALLAS AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15208. DEED BOOK VOLUME 19230, PAGE 457, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 125-L-54. PARCEL2 HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 6832 KELLY STREET PITTSBURGH, PA 15208. DEED BOOK VOLUME 19230, PAGE 457, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 125-L-55.
31MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) Brian D. Dietrich
CASE NO. MG-23-000486
DEBT $111,970.61
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Powers Kirn, LLC
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) Eight Neshaminy lnterplex, Suite 215, Trevose, PA 19053
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 215-942-2090
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Ingram: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 227 Scotia Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15205. Deed Book Volume 16378, Page 35, Instrument Number 20I 6-13071, Block and Lot Number 4 I-J-236.
32MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) MCKEESPORT AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT AND BOROUGH OF WHITE OAK VS. DEFENDANT(S) PATTI S. YOBST ******************** CASE NO. GD-24-007722 ************* DEBT $12,619.75
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
CHRISTOPHER E. VINCENT *************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 546 WENDEL ROAD, IWRIN, PA 15642
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF WHITE OAK:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1715 CALIFORNIA AVENUE, MCKEESPORT, PA 15131. DEED BOOK 14388, PAGE 423. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 551-8-179.
33MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) DUQUESNE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT VS. DEFENDANT(S) JOSEPH J. MINIAGIO AND SANDRA WILCZEK
********************
CASE NO. GD-23-009479
************* DEBT $8,856.07
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
CHRISTOPHER E. VINCENT
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 546 WENDEL ROAD, IWRIN, PA 15642
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, CITY OF DUQUESNE:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON.A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 35 CLEARVIEW AVENUE, DUQUESNE, PA 15110. DEED BOOK 7953, PAGE 65. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 304-L-250.
34MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) DEER LAKES SCHOOL DISTRICT AND TOWNSHIP OF EAST DEER VS. DEFENDANT(S) JADE INVESTMENT VENTURES, L.P., A
PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
******************** CASE NO. GD-22-009214
DEBT $43,548.58
35MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) MCKEESPORT AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT AND CITY OF MCKEESPORT VS. DEFENDANT(S) EUGENE KOWALSKI AND DONALD KOWALSKI, HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF STEL-
************* DEBT $23,871.56 NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) CHRISTOPHER E. VINCENT ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 546 WENDEL ROAD, IWRIN, PA 15642 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (724) 978-0333 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, CITY OF MCKEESPORT: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1507 CARNEGIE AVENUE, MCKEESPORT, PA 15132. DEED BOOK 12273, PAGE 47. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 307-R-244.
37MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) UPPER ST. CLAIR SCHOOL DISTRICT VS. DEFENDANT(S) JENNIFER LUKONDI & MICHAEL A. FISCHER CASE NO. GD-23-01!864
DEBT $10,946.61
************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 445 Fort Pitt Boulevard, Suite 503, Pittsburgh, PA I 5219
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWNSHIP OF UPPER ST. CLAIR: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 535 UPPER ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15228. DEED BOOK 18178, PAGE403. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 252-E-267.
38MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) UPPER ST. CLAIR SCHOOL DISTRJCT VS. DEFENDANT(S) EUGENE F. HLAVAC ********************
CASE NO. GD-24-001221
DEBT $7,981.14
************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 445 Fort Pitt Boulevard, Suite 503, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWNSHIP OF UPPER ST. CLAIR: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 126 JOHNSTON ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15241. DEED BOOK I8075, PAGE 434. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 570-S-4.
39MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) H.E.M. Holdings LLC VS. DEFENDANT(S) Patrick M. Norris
CASE NO. GD-24-011526
************* DEBT $484,368.27
************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Keri P. Ebeck
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 601 Grant Street, 9’” Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-456-8100
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, County of Allegheny, Township of Robinson: HAVING THEREON A COMMERCIAL BUILDING BEING KNOW AND NUMBERED AS 173 OLD BEAVER GRADE ROAD, CORAOPOLIS , PA 15108 DEED BOOK VOLUME 287, PAGE 175, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 337-L-99.
PA 15030. DEED BOOK 13144, PAGE 300. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 841-K-212.
41MAY25
DEFENDANT(S) MARGARET ANN MANNION AKA MARGARET A. MANNION ******************** CASE NO. MG-18-000394 ************* DEBT $34,229.20 NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Robert E. Smithson, Jr., Esq. I Court I.D. No. 329691 ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 7660 Imperial Way, Suite 121,Allentown, Pennsylvania 18195 ATTORNEY TELEPHONE
45MAY25
55MAY25 PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S) Kathi Ann Sanford
CASE NO. GD 19-016981
DEBT: $6,257.26
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of McKeesportWard 3: Parcel #1: Having erected thereon a two story frame house known as 1038 Peebles Lane, McKeesport, PA 15132. Deed Book Volume 17280, Page 330. Block & Lot 382A-366. Parcel #2: Being thereon vacant residential land known as 11• Street, McKeesport, PA 15132. Deed Book Volume 17280, Page 314. Block & Lot 382-A368. Parcel #3: Being thereon vacant residential land known as Peebles Lane, McKeesport, PA 15132. Deed Book Volume 17280, Page 322. Block & Lot 382-A-365.
56MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S) Charles Morgan IV ******************** CASE NO. GD 20-000998
DEBT: $4,263.82
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of McKeesportWard 7: Having erected thereon a two-story stucco house being known as 1501 Beech Street, McKeesport, PA 15132. Deed Book Volume 16771, Page 6. Block & Lot No. 382-D-353.
57MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S) Todd A. Wargo ******************** CASE NO. GD 19-000115 ************* DEBT:$4,611.71
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Jefferson Hills: Having erected thereon a one-story brick house being known as 1305 Walnut Street, Clairton, PA 15025. Deed Book Volume 14121, Page 471. Block & Lot No. 1274-R-57.
58MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS.
DEFENDANT(S) Roger Lynn & Tammy Ann Jones
CASE NO. G.D. 23-007038 ************* DEBT: $4,196.44 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Glassport: Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 624 Vermont Avenue, Glassport, PA 15045. Deed Book Volume 16602, Page 109. Block & Lot No. 558-C-261.
59MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): Pine-Richland School District VS.
DEFENDANT(S): Timothy J. Giltinan, Trustee of the Maloney Family Irrevocable Trust, dated June 12, 2012
CASE NO. GD 23-003238 ************* DEBT: $10,714.58 *************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Pine: Having erected thereon a one-story brick house being known as 190 Killarney Road, Wexford, PA 15090. Deed Book Volume 14929, Page 352, Block & Lot No. 1499-K-26.
60MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): Pine-Richland School District VS. DEFENDANT(S): Venusian Management Group 1 LP
********************
CASE NO. GD 23-014042
DEBT: $1,856.43
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)
525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219
*************
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587
*************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of McKeesportWard 12: Having erected thereon a one-story frame house being known as 421 Lemon Avenue, McKeesport, PA 15132. Deed Book Volume 16726, Page 26. Block & Lot No. 555-D-43.
61MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS.
DEFENDANT(S): Donald P. Paul, with Notice to Heirs and Assigns
CASE NO. GD 18-017204
DEBT: $3,595.89
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)
525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219
*************
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587
*************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Town of McCandless: Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 9408 Highland Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15237. Deed Book Volume 7213, Page 619. Block & Lot No. 824-G-40.
62MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS.
DEFENDANT(S): Eric D. Ovitsky
********************
CASE NO. GD 24-006874
*************
DEBT: $4,769.81
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)
525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219
*************
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Whitehall: Having erected thereon a one-story stone house being known as 3814 Provost Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15227. Deed Book Volume 11636,Page 206. Block & Lot No. 248-B-104
63MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S): Walter C. Frydrych Jr.
********************
CASE NO. GD 23-004181
************* DEBT: $3,255.56
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)
525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219
*************
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of East McKeesport:
Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 1071 Messineo Avenue, East McKeesport, PA 15035. Deed Book Volume 13978, Page 399. Block & Lot No. 547-B-56.
64MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S): Michael J. Benedetto & Katherine K. Benedetto
CASE NO.: GD 23-014164
*************
DEBT: $3,680.70
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)
525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of McKeesportWard 6: Having erected thereon a two story frame house, known as 905 Evans Avenue, McKeesport, PA 15132. Deed Book Volume 14209, Page 343. Block & Lot No. 380-N-88.
65MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S): Debra Lengle
CASE NO.: GD 23-007029
DEBT: $4,866.17
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Harmar: Parcel #1: Having erected thereon a one-story brick house
66MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): Woodland Hills School District VS. DEFENDANT(S): Watts Memorial Chapel, Inc.
CASE NO.: GD 23-011761
DEBT: $2,976.24
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Braddock: Having erected thereon a three story funeral home being known as 808 Talbot Avenue, Braddock, PA 15104. Deed Book Volume 9588, Page 174. Block & Lot No. 237-H-227.
67MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): North Hills School District VS. DEFENDANT(S): Christine A. Grady & Jean B. Grady
******************** CASE NO.: GD 23-011627
DEBT: $2,277.63
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of West View: Having erected thereon a two-story brick house being known as 217 Lakewood Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15229. Deed Book Volume 18209, Page 186, Block & Lot 279C-330.
68MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): Woodland Hills School District VS.
DEFENDANT(S): Loretta Marie Edwards
******************** CASE NO.: GD 23-008189
************* DEBT: $10,058.11
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Swissvale: Having erected thereon a two-story frame house being known as 7343 Burton Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15218. Deed Book Volume 6457, Page 114. Block & Lot No. 178-L-142.
69MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS.
DEFENDANT(S): Jason B. Demis, Executor of the Estate of Joanne L. Drost, Deceased ******************** CASE NO.: GD 23-004159 ************* DEBT: $2,339.79
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Dravosburg:
Having erected thereon a one-story frame house being known as 121 Duquesne Avenue, Dravosburg, PA 15034. Deed Book Volume 13884, Page 64. Block & Lot No. 309-C-34.
70MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S): Sandra Lipinski
CASE NO.: GD 24-008523
DEBT: $3,118.47
************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
*************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)
525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills:
Having erected thereon a two-story masonry frame house being known as 109 Orchard Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15235. Deed Book Volume 18180, Page 348. Block & Lot No. 449-D-202.
71MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S): Franklin A. Taddeo & Janet E. Taddeo and The United States of America
******************** CASE NO.: G.D. 10-006486
DEBT: $14,411.57
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Glassport: Being thereon vacant commercial land being known as Monongahela Avenue, Glassport, PA 15045. Deed Book Volume 7006, Page 261. Block & Lot No. 467-P-51.
72MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny VS. DEFENDANT(S): CBALJL, Inc.
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BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 211-F-8.
77MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough Vs. DEFENDANT(S): CANDYCE L. MILLER & EUGENE C. MILLER ******************** CASE NO.:
OF MONROEVILLE: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 407 LONGVIEW DRIVE, MONROEVILLE, PA 15146. DEED BOOK VOLUME 16337, PAGE 181, BLOCK AND LOT 0543-M00352-0000-00.
84MAY25 DEFENDANT(S): Elizabeth E. Pilarski, Thomas J. Pilarski
CASE NO.: MG-19-001316
************* DEBT: $273,716.56
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NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) LOGS Legal Group LLP
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ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 985 Old Eagle School Road, Suite 514 Wayne, PA 19087
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (610) 278-6800
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, MUNICJPALITY OF MT. LEBANON:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 246 ASHLAND AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15228. DEED BOOK VOLUME 1062, PAGE 522, BLOCK AND LOT 0141-P00048-0000-00.
85MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Roberta L. Marchick
CASE NO.: MG-24-000228
DEBT: $24,215.24
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NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) The Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 1310 Industrial Boulevard, I” Floor, Suite IOI, Southampton, PA 18966
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 16th Ward, City of Pittsburgh:
HAVING THEREON ERECTED A TWO AND ONE-HALF STORY CONCRETE BLOCK AND SHINGLE DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 416 CATHEDRAL AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15210. DEED BOOK VOLUME 12063, PAGE 304. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER. 32-A-302.
86MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs.
DEFENDANT(S): Michael Hamuicka, Jr. & Marie Hamuicka, with Notice to Heirs and Assigns and Ian Dolgosheev ********************
CASE NO.: GD 17-016009 *************
DEBT: $4,494.26
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219
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ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Stowe: Having erected thereon a two-story brick house being known as 916 Ridge Avenue, McKees Rocks, PA 15136. Deed Book Volume 6113, Page 625. Block & Lot No. 73-K-349.
87MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny Vs.
DEFENDANT(S): John G. Arch, Executor of1he Estate of Thomas A. Eichner, Deceased, & William H. Eichner
82MAY25 DEFENDANT(S): Isaac Skipworth
NO.: MG-23-000405 ************* DEBT: $76,922.34 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) LOGS Legal Group LLP
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 985 Old Eagle School Road, Suite 514 Wayne, PA 19087
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (610) 278-6800
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF GLASSPORT:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 702 NORTH MONONGAHELA AVENUE, GLASSPORT, PA 15045. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18105, PAGE 523, BLOCK AND LOT 0384-H-00269-0000-00.
83MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Thiemo Sow, known Heir of Darlene D. Hopkins, deceased, Jerome Fuller, known Heir of Darlene D. Hopkins, deceased, Charles Fuller, known Heir of Darlene D. Hopkins, deceased, Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns and All Persons, Firms or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest from or under Darlene D. Hopkins, deceased
CASE NO.: MG-23-000988
DEBT: $112,989.96
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NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) LOGS Legal Group LLP
************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 985 Old Eagle School Road, Suite 514 Wayne, PA 19087
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (610) 278-6800
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, MUNICIPALITY OF PENN HILLS:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELL-
ING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 7967 ABER ROAD, VERONA, PA 15147. DEED BOOK VOLUME 11727, PAGE 556, BLOCK AND LOT 0295-E-00190-0000-00.
CASE NO.: GD 17-012440 ************* DEBT: $4,678.23 *************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire *************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Shaler: Having erected 1hereon a one-story commercial building known as 1015 Sharpshill Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15215. Deed Book Volume 14737, Page 175. Block & Lot No. 222-M-26.
88MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Andrew Malone; Alisha Malone
CASE NO.: MG-24-000797 ************* DEBT: $70,333.61 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) MDK Legal *************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of McKeesport: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 2101 Barnsdale Avenue, McKeesport, PA 15132 AKA 2101 Barnsdale Avenue, McKeesport, PA 15132. Document Number 2017-24800, Deed Book Volume 16904, Page 593. Block and Lot Number 0462-F- 000250000-00.
89MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Megan McKissick
CASE NO.: MG-24-000543
DEBT: $102,792.31 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) MDK Legal
************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Ju the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, O’Hara Township: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 117 Valley Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15215. Document Number 1997-012497, Deed Book Volume 10036, Page 650. Block and Lot Number 0170-J00008-0000-00.
90MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Jacob OBrien-Rice, AKA Jacob O’Brien-
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Forward: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 5124 Dorris Drive, Elizabeth, PA 15037. Document Number 2021-14180, Deed Book Volume 18428, Page 273. Block and Lot Number 1272-S-00205-0000-00.
91MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Frances M. Foley
CASE NO.: MG-24-000193
************* DEBT: $13,622.76
*************
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) MDK Legal *************
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Stowe Township: Parcel: Having erected a dwelling being known and numbered as 904 Liberty Street, McKees Rocks, PA 15136. Deed Book Volume 11109, Page 464, Block and Lot Number 0072-B-00358-0000- 00.
PARCEL 2: Vacant land being known as Liberty Street, McKees Rocks, PA 15136. Deed Book Volume 11109, Page 464, Block and Lot Number 0072-B-00370-0000-00.
92MAY25
PLAINTIFF(S) UPPER ST. CLAIR SCHOOL DISTRICT VS. DEFENDANT(S): JOHN O’ROURK.E
CASE NO.: GD-22-014204
************* DEBT: $20,779.10
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NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)
Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire
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ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)
445 Fort Pitt Boulevard, Suite 503, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-391-0160
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, PARTLY I THE TOWNSHIP OF UPPER ST. CLAIR A D PARTLY IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF BETHEL PARK:
HAVING ERECTED THEREO A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 381 MCMURRAY ROAD, BETHEL PARK, PA 15102. DEED BOOK 17357, PAGE 54. BLOCK & LOT NUMBER 668-D-l 75.
444 Liberty Avenue, Suite 2100 Pittsburgh, PA 15222
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-918-1100
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, and Municipality of Penn Hills:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A ONE-STORY RESIDENTIAL BUILDING KNOWN AS 202 DUFFIELD AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15235. DEED BOOK VOLUME 17177, PAGE 63. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 369-E-353.
94MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Kevin Kirkpatrick; Jenna Kirkpatrick
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, South Fayette Township: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered 1003 Preserve Lane, Bridgeville, PA 15017. Document Number2019-12325, Deed Book Volume 17603, Page 583. Block and Lot Number 0480-K-00112-0000-00.
95MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Charles James Hollis, Jr., as believed Heir to the Estate of Marcella L. Hollis; Unknown Heirs, to the Estate of Marcella L. Hollis; Unknown Administrators, to the Estate of Marcella L. Hollis
CASE NO.: MG-24-000808
DEBT:$30,440.27
************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) MDK Legal ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) P. 0. Box 165028 Columbus, OH 43216-5028 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 614-220-5611 ************************************* SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, City of McKeesport:
96MAY25 PLAINTIFF(S): Baldwin Borough VS. DEFENDANT(S): Allison Sydeski CASE NO.: GD-22-008777 ************* DEBT: $4,898.37 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Jeffrey D. Ries, Esquire ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 714 Lebanon Road, West Mifflin, PA 15122 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-464-9997
SHORT DESCRIPTION: ALL THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE SITUATE IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, AND BOROUGH OF BALDWIN. HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 5186 ELMWOOD DRIVE, PENNSYLVANIA 15227. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18237, PAGE 492, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 246-P-310.
97MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): STEPHEN TWICHELL, KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF MEGAN M. TWICHELL AKA
STEPHAN JACKSON, DECEASED HEIR OF PEGGY M. HICKEY AKA MARGARET M. HICKEY, M.T. (A MINOR) KNOWN SURVIVING HEIR OF MEGAN M. TWICHELL, DECEASED HEIR OF PEGGY M. HICKEY AKA MARGARET M. HICKEY, AND UNKNOWN SURVIVING HEIRS OF PEGGY M. HICKEY AKA MARGARET M. HICKEY CASE NO.: GD-19-012922
************* DEBT: $83,007.50 ************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) CHELSEA A. NIXON, ESQUIRE ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, LLC 216 HADDON AVENUE, SUITE 201 WESTMONT, NJ 08108
SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, MUNICIPALITY OF MONROEVILLE:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 739 HEARTWOOD DRIVE, MONROEVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA 15146. DEED BOOK VOLUME 15706, PAGE 355. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 0637-F-001760000-00.
98MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Ann L. Bonfiglio
CASE NO.: MG-24-000885
************* DEBT: $48,583.45
************* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Stephen M. Hladik, Esquire
************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) Hladik, Onorato and Federman, LLP 298 Wissahickon Avenue, North Wales, PA 19454
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF WEST VIEW: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 14 COLUMBIA AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15229. DEED BOOK VOLUME 11731, PAGE 544. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 279-B-280.
99MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Robert N. Lynch and Patricia L. Lynch
CASE NO.: AR-24-002920
************* DEBT: $4,511.91
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NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Fred C. Jug, Jr. ************* ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 310 Grant Street, Suite 1109, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-255-6500
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, South Fayette Township:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A HUNTING RIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATION DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 220 HORSESHOE CIRCLE, BRIDGEVILLE, PA 15017. DEED BOOK 5674, PAGE 737. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 481-K-036.
100MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): Daniel R. Housley
******************** CASE NO.: AR-24-002003 ************* DEBT: $2,663.23
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Fred C. Jug, Jr.
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 310 Grant Street, Suite 1109, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Jefferson Hills:
HAVING ERECTED THEREON A JEFFERSON RIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATION, INC. CONDOMINIUM UNIT BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 324 NEW WORLD DRIVE, CLAIRTON, PA 15025. DEED BOOK 13550, PAGE 187. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1006-C00050-0052-00
101MAY25
DEFENDANT(S): NATHAN D. MEYERS ******************** CASE NO.: AR-24-002035
DEBT: $2,909.88
NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Fred C. Jug, Jr.
ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 310 Grant Street, Suite 1109, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ************* ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-255-6500 *************************************
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, South Fayette Township: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A HUNTING RIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATION CONDOMINIUM UNIT BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2463 BROOK LEDGE ROAD, 33B,
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF WEST MIFFLIN Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 203 RHODES AVE, WEST MIFFLIN, PA 15122. Deed Book Volume DE-17833, Page 341. Block and Lot Number 0240-S-001760000-00
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS
Urban Design/Planning – Regional community development and historic preservation organization requests Qualifications relative to the following: 1) urban design, 2) mapping and graphics, 3) land use integration 4) public space and public transit related improvements, 5) individuals available for assignment, 6) working with multiple stakeholders and the public and building consensus, 7) minority and women-owned businesses participation, and 8) method and/or rates of compensation. Within thirty days of first publication of this notice, firms/individuals should send Qualifications as outlined above to: Young Preservationists Association, 700 River Avenue, Suite 318, Pittsburgh, PA 15212. Final Due Date: Friday May 2, 2025.
TOWNSHIP OF WILKINS
PUBLIC NOTICE OF INTENT TO FILE AMENDED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATON
TAKE NOTICE THAT the Wilkins Township Board of Commissioners adopted Resolution Number 5-2025 at their regularly scheduled meeting of March 10, 2025. Said Resolution Number 5-2025 authorizes the proper officers to file amended Articles of Incorporation for the Wilkins Area Industrial Development Authority (“WAIDA”), with principal offices at 110 Peffer Road, Turtle Creek, PA 15145. The Amended Articles of Incorporation are filed under the provisions of the Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Law, Act of August 23, 1967, P.L. 251, as amended.
The nature and character of the proposed amendment is to extend the term of the existence of the WAIDA from 2031 to 2074 and to reduce the membership from seven members to five members.
The Amended Articles of Incorporation will be filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth on April 30, 2025.
NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE SALE
WHEREAS, on December 31, 1997, a certain mortgage was executed by PAUL BRIM JR. and SHIRLEY BRIM, as mortgagor in favor of UNITY MORTGAGE CORP DBA THE REVERSE MORTGAGE COMPANY as mortgagee and was recorded in Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Allegheny County in Mortgage Book 17202 Page 646 (“Mortgage”); and WHEREAS, the Mortgage encumbers property located at 1024 Parsonage Street Creighton, PA 15030, parcel number 0960-F-00260-0000-00(“Property”); and WHEREAS, Mortgagor/Record Owner PAUL BRIM JR died on 03/29/14. By operation of law title vests solely in SHIRLEY BRIM and PAUL BRIM JR is hereby released of liability pursuant to Pa.R.C.P. 1144. Mortgagor/ Record Owner SHIRLEY BRIM died on 10/27/22 and Letters Testamentary were granted to Jamie Cutright on 12/16/22 by the Register of Wills of Allegheny County, File No.: 02-22-8059. ;and WHEREAS, the Property was owned by PAUL BRIM JR. & SHIRLEY BRIM by virtue of deed dated 6/27/1995 and recorded 7/27/1995 in Book:09503 Page:206 ;and WHEREAS, the Mortgage is now owned by the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (“Secretary”), pursuant to an assignment recorded on 11/26/2012 in Book M VL 41765 Page 403 Instrument # 2012-117260, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; and WHEREAS, a default has been made in the covenants and conditions of the Mortgage (paragraph 9 (a)(i)), as SHIRLEY BRIM died on 10/27/2022 and that upon the death the entire principal balance becomes due and owing, and that no payment was made, and remains wholly unpaid as of the date of this Notice; and WHEREAS, the entire amount delinquent as of 12/27/2024 is $116,739.20 plus interest, costs and other charges through the sale date; and WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, the Secretary has declared the entire amount of the indebtedness secured by the Mortgage to be immediately due and payable;
NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to powers vested in me by the Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994, l2 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR Part 29, and by the Secretary’s designation of me as Foreclosure Commissioner, recorded on 06/28/2012 in Misc. Bk-DE, Vl-14933, Pg-17, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, notice is hereby given that on 05/01/2025; at 10:00 AM at outside the Main Entrance of the Allegheny County Courthouse located at 436 Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 all real property and personal property at or used in connection with the following described premises will be sold at public action to the highest bidder:
ALL those certain lots or pieces of ground situate in the Township of East Deer, County of Allegheny and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, being part of Lot No. 37, all of Lot No. 38 and part of Lot No. 39 in the Creighton Plan of Lots laid out by John B. Ford, said Plan being of record in the Recorder’s Office of Allegheny County in Plan Book Volume 11, page 185, and more particularly as follows:
BEGINNING at a point on the line of a 31 ½ foot street known as Parsonage Street, which point is 7 feet east from the division line between Lots Nos. 39 and 40, said point being also the northeasterly corner of a strip of ground now or formerly of Walter Usiadek, et ux., By deed of record in Deed Book Volume 3109, page 667; thence along the line of Parsonage Street in a northeasterly direction, a distance of 66 feet to a point on the line of land now or formerly of Walter Komosinski; thence in a southerly direction on a line parallel to the division line between Lots Nos. 36 and 37 a distance of 120 feet to an alley; thence along said alley in a westerly direction, a distance of 66 feet to a point on the line of land now or formerly of Walter Usiadek, et ux.; thence in a northerly direction along the line of land now or formerly of Usiadek, which line is parallel to the division line between Lots Nos. 39 and 40, a distance of 120 feet to a point on the line of Parsonage Street at the place of beginning.
BEING designated as Block and Lot No. 960-F-260.
The sale will be held 05/01/2025; at 10:00 AM at outside the Main Entrance of the Allegheny County Courthouse located at 436 Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development will bid $116,739.20 plus interest, costs and other charges through the sale date. Ten percent (10%) of the highest bid is the deposit required at the sale.
The amount that must be paid to HUD by the mortgagors or someone acting on their behalf so that the sale may be stayed is the total delinquent amount of $116,739.20 as of 12/27/2024, plus all other amounts that would be due under the mortgage agreement if payments under the mortgage had not been accelerated, advertising costs and postage expenses incurred in giving notice, mileage by the most reasonable road distance for posting notices and for the Foreclosure Commissioner’s attendance at the sale, reasonable and customary costs incurred for title and lien record searches, the necessary out-of-pocket costs incurred by the Foreclosure Commissioner for recording documents, a commission for the Foreclosure Commissioner, and all other costs incurred in connection with the foreclosure prior to reinstatement.
There will be no proration of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, except that the purchaser will pay, at or before closing, his prorata share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secretary to the date of the foreclosure sale.
When making their bid, all bidders, except the Secretary, must submit a deposit totaling ten percent 10% of the Secretary’s bid as set forth above in the form of a certified check or cashier’s check made out to the Secretary of HUD. Each oral bid need not be accompanied by a deposit. If the successful bid is oral, a deposit of ten (10%) percent must be presented before the bidding is closed. The deposit is nonrefundable. The remainder of the purchase price must be delivered within thirty (30) days of the sale or at such other time as the Secretary may determine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. If the Secretary is the high bidder, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder will pay all conveyance fees, all real estate and other taxes that are due on or after the delivery of the remainder of the payment and all other costs associated with the transfer of title. At the conclusion of the sale, the deposits of the unsuccessful bidders will be returned to them.
The Secretary may grant an extension of time within which to deliver the remainder of the payment. All extensions will be for fifteen (15) days, and a fee will be charged in the amount of $150.00 for each fifteen (15) day extension requested. The extension fee shall be paid in the form of a certified or cashier’s check made payable to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. If the high bidder closes the sale prior to the expiration of any extension period, the unused portion of the extension fee shall be applied toward the amount due.
If the high bidder is unable to close the sale within the required period, or within any extensions of time granted by the Secretary, the high bidder’s deposit will be forfeited, and the Commissioner may, at the direction of the HUD Field Office Representative, offer the Property to the second highest bidder for an amount equal to the highest price offered by that bidder.
There is no right of redemption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclosure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Foreclosure Commissioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire purchase price in accordance with the terms of the sale as provided herein.
KML LAW GROUP, P.C. Foreclosure Commissioners (215-825-6305)
1-800-PACK-RAT (PA-LEETSDALE-5463) 142 FERRY ST LEETSDALE, PA 15056 877-774-1537
NOTICE OF SALE
Tenant: Unit Bader, Mazza, Elizabeth AU: Debbie 801476 Cushey,
NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE SALE
WHEREAS, on December 04, 2015, a certain mortgage was executed by JOANN HERRLE and NORBERT HERRLE, as mortgagor in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS MORTGAGEE AS NOMINEE FOR SYNERGY ONE LENDING, INC.
DBA: RETIREMENT FUNDING SOLUTIONS, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS as mortgagee and was recorded in Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Allegheny County in Mortgage BK-M VL-45914 PG-354 or INSTRUMENT #2015-92594 (“Mortgage”); and WHEREAS, the Mortgage encumbers property located at 1613 Shawmut Drive Glenshaw, PA 15116, parcel number 0435-C-00112-0000-00(“Property”); and WHEREAS, Mortgagor/Record Owner NORBERT HERRLE died on 03/02/19. By operation of law title vests solely in JOANN HERRLE and NORBERT HERRLE is hereby released of liability pursuant to Pa.R.C.P. 1144. JOANN HERRLE died on 04/04/24 intestate and is survived by no known heirs. ;and WHEREAS, the Property was owned by JOANN HERRLE & NORBERT HERRLE by virtue of deed dated 9/12/2003 and recorded 9/19/2003 in Book 11791 Page 332 or Instrument#2003-32713 ;and WHEREAS, the Mortgage is now owned by the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (“Secretary”), pursuant to an assignment recorded on 2/15/2022 in BK-M VL-55885 PG66 or INSTRUMENT #2022-13647, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; and WHEREAS, a default has been made in the covenants and conditions of the Mortgage (paragraph 9 (a)(i)), as JOANN HERRLE died on 04/04/2024 and that upon the death the entire principal balance becomes due and owing, and that no payment was made, and remains wholly unpaid as of the date of this Notice; and WHEREAS, the entire amount delinquent as of 12/10/2024 is $200,421.80 plus interest, costs and other charges through the sale date; and WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, the Secretary has declared the entire amount of the indebtedness secured by the Mortgage to be immediately due and payable;
NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to powers vested in me by the Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994, l2 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR Part 29, and by the Secretary’s designation of me as Foreclosure Commissioner, recorded on 06/28/2012 in Misc. Bk-DE, Vl-14933, Pg 17, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, notice is hereby given that on 05/01/2025; at 10:00 AM at at the Main Entrance of the Allegheny County Courthouse located at 436 Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 all real property and personal property at or used in connection with the following described premises will be sold at public action to the highest bidder:
File No: 122-002224
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground situate in the Township of Shaler, County of Allegheny and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, being Lot No.7 in the Shawmut Oaks Plan No.1, as recorded in the Department of Real Estate Office for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in Plan Book Volume 82, Pages 6 and 7 inclusive.
PARCEL NO. 435-C-112
BEING the same premises which Joann M. Benson, widow, now known as Joann Herrle, by Deed dated 09/12/2003 and recorded 09/19/2003 in the Department of Real Estate Office of Allegheny County in Deed Book Volume 11791, Page 332, granted and conveyed unto Joann Herrle and Norbert Herrle, wife and husband.
0435-C-00112
The sale will be held 05/01/2025; at 10:00 AM at the Main Entrance of the Allegheny County Courthouse located at 436 Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development will bid $200,421.80 plus interest, costs and other charges through the sale date. Ten percent (10%) of the highest bid is the deposit required at the sale. The amount that must be paid to HUD by the mortgagors or someone acting on their behalf so that the sale may be stayed is the total delinquent amount of $200,421.80 as of 12/10/2024, plus all other amounts that would be due under the mortgage agreement if payments under the mortgage had not been accelerated, advertising costs and postage expenses incurred in giving notice, mileage by the most reasonable road distance for posting notices and for the Foreclosure Commissioner’s attendance at the sale, reasonable and customary costs incurred for title and lien record searches, the necessary out-of-pocket costs incurred by the Foreclosure Commissioner for recording documents, a commission for the Foreclosure Commissioner, and all other costs incurred in connection with the foreclosure prior to reinstatement.
There will be no proration of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, except that the purchaser will pay, at or before closing, his prorata share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secretary to the date of the foreclosure sale.
When making their bid, all bidders, except the Secretary, must submit a deposit totaling ten percent 10% of the Secretary’s bid as set forth above in the form of a certified check or cashier’s check made out to the Secretary of HUD. Each oral bid need not be accompanied by a deposit. If the successful bid is oral, a deposit of ten (10%) percent must be presented before the bidding is closed. The deposit is nonrefundable. The remainder of the purchase price must be delivered within thirty (30) days of the sale or at such other time as the Secretary may determine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. If the Secretary is the high bidder, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder will pay all conveyance fees, all real estate and other taxes that are due on or after the delivery of the remainder of the payment and all other costs associated with the transfer of title. At the conclusion of the sale, the deposits of the unsuccessful bidders will be returned to them. The Secretary may grant an extension of time within which to deliver the remainder of the payment. All extensions will be for fifteen (15) days, and a fee will be charged in the amount of $150.00 for each fifteen (15) day extension requested. The extension fee shall be paid in the form of a certified or cashier’s check made payable to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. If the high bidder closes the sale prior to the expiration of any extension period, the unused portion of the extension fee shall be applied toward the amount due. If the high bidder is unable to close the sale within the required period, or within any extensions of time granted by the Secretary, the high bidder’s deposit will be forfeited, and the Commissioner may, at the direction of the HUD Field Office Representative, offer the Property to the second highest bidder for an amount equal to the highest price offered by that bidder. There is no right of redemption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclosure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Foreclosure Commissioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire purchase price in accordance with the terms of the sale as provided herein.
KML LAW GROUP, P.C. Foreclosure Commissioners (215-825-6305)
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PUBLIC NOTICE ALLEGHENY COUNTY SANITARY AUTHORITY
The Advisory Committee of the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority will hold a special meeting for general purposes on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, at 5:30 p.m. prevailing time in the Trefz Board Room at its offices located at 3300 Preble Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15233. Official action on the Committee’s recommendations will take place at a regular meeting of the Board of Directors at a later date. The public may view the meeting via livestream by visiting www.alcosan.org.
The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) will hold a regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners on Thursday, April 24, 2025 @ 10:30 a.m. EST. The hybrid meeting will be conducted via Zoom Conferencing and in-person on the Lower Level Conference Room of 412 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. You must register to attend the in-person meeting.
Registration for attending the meeting in-person and registration to provide public comment will both open on Monday, April 21, 2025 at 11 a.m. and posted to www.hacp.org.
HACP conducts business in accordance with all federal, state, and local civil rights laws, including but not limited to Title VII, the Fair Housing Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, The PA Human Relations Act, etc. and does not discriminate against any individuals protected by these statutes.
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ALLIES & ROSS MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) FOR Third-Party Property Management Agent for Manchester and Northview Heights Midrise ARMDC RFP #2025-45
Allies & Ross Management and Development Corporation (ARMDC) hereby requests proposals from qualified Firms or Individuals capable of providing the following service(s):
Third-Party Property Management Agent for Manchester and Northview Heights Midrise RFP documents were made available on April 14, 2025. Signed and sealed proposals will be accepted until: 10:00 A.M. on May 16, 2025 ARMDC will only be accepting physical proposals dropped off in person from 8:00 AM until the closing time of 10:00 AM on May 16, 2025, in the One Stop Shop at 412 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Proposals may uploaded to ARMDC’s online submission site, the link is accessible via the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh‘s (HACP) website and within the RFP. Sealed proposals may still be mailed via USPS at which time they will be Time and Date Stamped at 412 Boulevard of the Allies, 6th Floor Procurement, 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:
James Harris, General Counsel/ Chief Contracting Officer Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh 412 Boulevard of the Allies 6th Floor, Procurement Department Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-643-2915
Estate of MILE DJERIC, Deceased of Whitehall, No. 01933
ADVERTISEMENT
Sealed proposals will be received by the Township of Wilkins of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania through the Quest Construction Data Network (QuestCDN) at www.questcdn.com until 11:00 AM prevailing time on May 28, 2025 for:
CONTRACT NO. 25-PK01
WILKINS COMMUNITY CENTER
The scope of work for Contract No. 25-PK01 includes the installation of 70 square yards of colored stamped concrete, connection to existing electrical for fireplace installation, installation of solar lighting, landscaping and all necessary appurtenances and restoration for said construction. All bidders are required to buy the Bid Documents in PDF format for a non-refundable deposit of $175.00 from QuestCDN using project number 9637574. Contact their Customer Support regarding membership registration, downloading and working with digital project information at 952-233-1632 or info@questcdn.com. Any technical questions regarding the bid documents are to be directed to LSSE. Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud via video conference. Interested parties may contact the Township for access information prior to the date and time identified herein. The project is being financed, in part, by CFA via a GTRP Grant. Bidder must agree to comply with all requirements associated with the grants. Pennsylvania prevailing wage rates apply. Proposals must be upon the forms furnished by the Township. The bid must be accompanied by a certified check or bid bond in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the bid, made payable to the Township of Wilkins to guarantee the bidder’s entrance into the contract if given the award. No bid bond shall be waived or returned because the Bidder has failed to or cannot comply with any requirements as set forth in the plans, specifications, or any applicable statutes of the State of Pennsylvania or any applicable municipal ordinances.
The Township reserves the right to reject any or all proposals and to waive any informalities in the bidding. No bid may be withdrawn for ninety (90) calendar days after the scheduled time for receipt of bids. Attention is directed to the fact that procurement is subject to all requirements of the Pennsylvania “Steel Products Procurement Act, Act No. 1978-3”; and for Contract value exceeding $25,000, the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act (Act of 1961 P.L. 987), and The Public Works Employment Verification Act (July 2012) apply.
The Township shall (a) award the construction contract to the lowest responsible bidder therefore, or (b) reject all bids received within ninety (90) days of the date of bid opening; provided, however, that the Township may, in its sole discretion, delay such award or rejection for up to one hundred twenty (120) days from the bid opening date until the Township has received all required approvals from other governmental agencies.
Bidders on this work will be required to comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
TOWNSHIP OF WILKINS Rebecca Vargo, Manager
NOTICE TO PROPOSERS
The Sports & Exhibition Authority will receive proposals for Hall A Restroom and Pantry Feasibility Study. The agreement for this work will be with the Sports & Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. The Request for Proposals may be obtained after the date identified below from Morgan Schmitt, Email: procurement@pgh-sea.com, Telephone: 412.325-6137.
This Advertisement applies to the following Request for Proposal:
Project: Hall A Restroom and Pantry Feasibility Study
RFP Available: Wednesday | April 16, 2025
Pre-Proposal Meeting: Friday | May 2, 2025 @ 2:00 PM
DLCC East Lobby 1000 Ft. Duquesne Blvd. Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Time/Date/Location for Proposals: Wednesday | May 16, 2025 by 10:00 AM DLCC East Lobby Attn: Morgan Schmitt 1000 Ft. Duquesne Blvd. Pittsburgh, PA 15222 procurement@pgh-sea.com
PORT AUTHORITY OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY D.B.A. PRT Electronic Proposals will be received online at PRT’s Ebusiness website (http://ebusiness.portauthority.org).
Proposals/bid submittals will be due 11:00 AM on May 15, 2025, and will be read at 11:15 AM, the same day, through your web browser via Microsoft Teams video conferencing, for the following: Electronic Proposal - Ebusiness website (http://ebusiness.portauthority.org)
and Certification of
To join the bid opening through Microsoft Teams meeting on your computer, mobile app or room device
Meeting ID: 281 804 285 52
Passcode: pY2R4JN3
Or call in (audio only)
412-927-0245
Phone Conference ID: 648 858 958#
No bidder may withdraw a submitted Proposal for a period of 75 days after the scheduled time for opening of the sealed bids.
A Pre-Bid Conference will be held on April 29, 2025, through your web browser via Microsoft Teams video conferencing. Attendance at this meeting is not mandatory but is strongly encouraged.
Join on your computer, mobile app or room device
Meeting ID: 268 856 531 669
Estate of ARNOLD D. JONES, SR., Deceased of Coraopolis, Allegheny County, Pennsylvana, No. 02-25-02060, Douglas Jones, Administrator, 45 Glenburn Drive, PA 15236 or to ROBIN L. RARIE, Atty; BRENLOVE & FULLER, LLC., 401 Washington Avenue, Bridgeville, PA 15017
Estate of BARBARA A. TRIMBLE, Deceased of Clairton, Allegheny County, Pennsylvana, No. 02-25-02075, Amy J. Gentile, Executor, 607 Carnegie Avenue, Clairton, PA 15025 or to TODD A. FULLER, Atty; BRENLOVE & FULLER, LLC., 401 Washington Avenue, Bridgeville, PA 15017 LEGAL ADVERTISING Articles of Incorporation ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION Notice is hereby given by Sarah J. Haley PHD PC, a foreign business corporation, incorporated under the laws of Texas where its principal office is located at 5900 Balcones Drive STE 100, Austin, Texas 78731, that said corporation has applied to the Department of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for a Certificate of Authority to do business within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the provisions of the Business Corporation Law of 1988. The address of the proposed registered office in Pennsylvania is: 119 E Garden Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15227. LEGAL ADVERTISING Legal Notices
Estate of JOHN F. KAUCIC, Deceased of Bridgeville, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, No. 02-25-02203, Bernadette A. Kaucic, Executor, 601 4th Avenue, Bridgeville, PA 15017 or to ROBIN L. RARIE, Atty; BRENLOVE & FULLER, LLC., 401 Washington Avenue, Bridgeville, PA 15017
A pre-submission meeting will be held via Zoom meeting; on April 30, 2025, at 10:00 A.M. Please see the meeting information below: Join Zoom Meeting https://hacp-org.zoom.us/ j/81260758727?pwd=5FsFJO1b tDNQPhnE6Srne9fScSveOi.1 Meeting ID: 812 6075 8727 Passcode: 816198 +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)
The Allies & Ross Management and Development Corporation strongly encourages certified minority business enterprises and women business enterprises to respond to this solicitation
Caster D. Binion, President & CEO Allies & Ross Management and Development Corporation
HACP conducts business in accordance with
Passcode: Nq3W2Dg2
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Phone Conference ID: 214 341 232#
Questions regarding any of the above bids will not be entertained by the PRT within five (5) business days of the scheduled bid opening. These contracts may be subject to a financial assistance contract between Port Authority of Allegheny County d.b.a. PRT and the United States Department of Transportation. The Contractor will be required to comply with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. Contractor is responsible for expenses related to acquiring a performance bond and insurance where applicable. All items are to be FOB delivered unless otherwise specified. Costs for delivery, bond, and insurance shall be included in bidder’s proposal pricing.
Port Authority of Allegheny County d.b.a. PRT hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in regard to any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprise will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award.
The Board of PRT reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
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IFB #300-12-25-Rebid
The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) hereby request bids from qualified Firms or Individuals capable of providing the following service(s):
Emergency Generator & Fire Pump Maintenance and Repair Authority Wide
The documents will be available no later than April 14, 2025, and signed, sealed bids will be accepted until 10:00 a.m. on May 15, 2025. The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh will only accept physical bids dropped off in person from 8:00 AM until the closing time of 10:00 a.m. on May 15, 2025, in the lobby of One Stop Shop at 412 Boulevard of the Allies. 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 412 Boulevard of the Allies, 6th Floor - Procurement, 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:
Dereen M. Neice
Senior Director of Procurement/ Contracting Officer
Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh Procurement Department 412 Boulevard of the Allies, 6th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15219 (For Questions Only)
Dereen.Neice@hacp.org
A pre-submission meeting will be held via Zoom meeting; on April 29, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. Please see the meeting information below: Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 833 9950 8136 Passcode: 187959 Dial in:
The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh strongly encourages certified minority business enterprises and women business enterprises to respond to this solicitation.
Caster D. Binion, Executive Director Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh HACP conducts
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.
CATALYST ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INVITATION FOR BIDS
Notice is hereby given that Catalyst Academy Charter School is requesting sealed proposals to provide child nutrition food service vended meals. Food Tasting will be held on May 14, 2025 with a drop off time of 9:00 am to 9:30 am. Proposals are due to Catalyst Academy Charter School at 7061 Lemington Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206 on May 30, 2025 by 10:00 am. Proposals received after the designated time and date will be returned unopened. Catalyst Academy Charter School reserves the right to reject any and all proposals and to waive any and all informalities in the best interest of the SFA. Copies of the request for proposals are available by contacting brian.smith@catalystacademy.org. This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS
ALLEGHENY COUNTY SANITARY AUTHORITY
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Allegheny County Sanitary Authority (ALCOSAN) is accepting Letters of Interest and Statements of Qualification from Professional Companies who wish to be considered for the following:
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES for REGIONALIZATION PROGRAM MANAGEMENT CAPITAL PROJECT S497
Interested Parties shall submit an electronic copy (pdf format) emailed to: procurement@alcosan.org
Attn: Suzanne Thomas, Procurement Officer
All questions should also be submitted, in writing, to procurement@alcosan.org.
The Allegheny County Sanitary Authority (ALCOSAN) is soliciting Letters of Interest and Statements of Qualifications from Professional Engineering firms interested in providing Professional Engineering Services for the Regionalization Program Management.
An informational meeting will be held May 14, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. (EST) in person at the ALCOSAN O&M Building Auditorium at 3300 Preble Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15233 to clarify the goals and purpose of this Request for Qualifications.
ALCOSAN intends to award the services to one firm to perform all services. Electronic submittals must be received no later than 2:00 p.m. (EST) June 20, 2025. It is the Consultant’s responsibility to ensure the documents have been received. Late submittals will not be considered. Additional information and instructions may be obtained by visiting: https://www.alcosan.org/workwith-us/planned-and-active-bids
ALCOSAN encourages businesses owned and operated by minorities, disadvantaged and women’s and Service-Disabled Veteran business enterprises to submit qualification statements or to participate as subcontractors or suppliers to the selected Consultant/Firm. The Party selected shall be required to utilize minority, disadvantaged, and women’s and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned business enterprises to the fullest extent possible. The goals of the ALCOSAN’s Minority and Women Business Policy are listed on the ALCOSAN website at www.alcosan.org.
Michael Lichte, PE DIRECTOR, REGIONAL CONVEYANCE
JOB OPPORTUNITIES Help Wanted COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT TEACHING ARTIST MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION
This position assists with community engagements for the MCG Youth mobile studio. Works to implement learning experiences that engage students through the arts. Bachelor’s degree and 1-2 years experience working with youth in formal or informal settings; 2-3 years experience in an art, social service, or public-school environment and moderate proficiency in a broad range of traditional and contemporary artistic and studio practices required. Must have a valid Pennsylvania driver’s license and an insurable driver’s record and be capable of driving a Sprinter. Send Resume with cover letter and salary requirements to resumes@manchesterbidwell.org EOE
BOROUGH OF AVALON Public Works Maintenance Worker, Borough of Avalon, Allegheny County – Applications are currently being accepted by the Borough Council for the position of Public Works Maintenance Worker. Maintenance workers perform a variety of physical and mental tasks associated with the maintenance, repair, and construction of Public Works assets. Essential functions include equipment operations, such as repairing and performing general maintenance tasks on Borough roadways, operating light- or mediumweight trucks, and plowing and removing snow; vehicle repair and maintenance; storm and sanitary repair and maintenance; and property maintenance tasks at municipal buildings, parks, and recreation areas. Applicants must have a high school diploma or equivalent and valid driver’s license; a CDL license is preferred but not required. Must be able to respond to emergencies on a 24-hour basis, especially during periods of snow. Flagger certification, CPO certification, and Pesticide Application certification must be obtained within 6 months of hire. This is a union position, affiliated with General Teamsters Local 249. The full job description can be viewed at www.boroughofavalon.org. Interested candidates should submit their application to info@boroughofavalon.org or Manager, Borough of Avalon, 640 California Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15202 no later than 4:00 pm, Friday, May 9, 2025.
Business Intelligence Analyst (SAP) (Multi Openings w/ National Placement out of Allegheny County, PA). MS deg. in either, comp’s eng’g, mgmt or IT rel’d field. Foreign edu equivl’t acceptable. Any suitable combo of edu, training or exp acceptable. Candidate will produce fin’l & market intel by querying data repositories & generating periodic reports & will devise methods for ID’ing data patterns & trends in avail info sources. Although no exp is req’d candidate must have coursework or internship in proj mgmt, eng’g mgmt & Ops mgmt; as well as Supply Chain & SAP. Able to trvl/ relo to unanticipated client sites as needed. F/T. $113,069yr. Ref# BEM-1024 MS0 & send CV to IDI Consulting, LLC, 777 Penn Center Blvd, Ste 502, Pittsburgh, PA 15235 or to karen.trump@idi-net.com. IDI Consulting is an EOE M/F/V/D
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SMS group Inc. seeks Principal Automation Engineer to work in Pittsburgh, PA & be responsible for overseeing the commissioning, design, and development of SMS’ proprietary flat rolling mill equipment and technology, specifically its automation systems. Degree & commensurate exp. req’d. Apply online by searching keyword 3115 at sms-group.us/careers
submitted to “Attn. Bids” in a sealed envelope labeled “Desktop PCs”. The Bid document appears on the North Hills School District website.
