8.23.23 NPC

by Rob Taylor Jr.

Courier Staff Writer

School is finally back! Pittsburgh Public Schools begin the upcoming school year on Monday, Aug. 28, and no one is more excited for the start of school than the city’s school superintendent, Dr. Wayne Walters.

And as you’re about to find out, no one is more candid and open about what he wants to see in his school district than Dr. Wayne Walters.

The 2023-24 school year will be Dr. Walters’ second school year as official superintendent. He had been the interim superintendent since October 2021, following the resignation of Dr. Anthony Hamlet. In July 2022, the interim tag was shredded.

Dr. Walters has a lot of people cheering him on. He’s earned the respect of many parents, staff, teachers and administrators. He knows the district in-

side and out. When PPS’ Board of Directors said they would have a “national” search for its next superintendent a few years ago, most of the board members had an inkling that the right person for the job in their mind was already in-house in Dr. Walters.

As 20,000 students, of which more than half are Black, return to PPS next week, parents, grandparents and education-based watchdogs are keeping two, maybe even three eyes on the district and how it moves.

Over the summer, Dr. Walters was a panelist at a forum sponsored by the United Black Book Clubs of Pittsburgh, held at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Homewood branch. He was joined onstage by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh President and Director Andrew Medlar and City of Pittsburgh

Trump facing as much as 641 years in prison

by Stacy M. Brown

NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

Former President Donald Trump once famously said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and go unpunished.

“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose voters,” he boasted during a 2016 rally in Iowa.

Seven years, two impeachments later, a civil sexual assault conviction, three indictments, and a fourth coming soon—Trump just may have been right.

The GOP’s 2024 presidential frontrunner currently faces a staggering 78 felony charges spanning three criminal cases, many of which carry the potential for significant prison time.

Having faced judges in Florida, New York and Washington, Trump hasn’t been required to take the standard mugshot, be perp-walked, or even post bail or bond.

For example, he faces 34 criminal charges in New York where the average cash bail amount for a felony is approximately $39,000 per offense, or, in his case, a total of $1.36 million.

Typically, federal bail for felonies could run as much as $200,000 per felony, according to the Bail Agents Network.

That means that an individual seeking bail on 44 felony charges could have to ante up as much as $8.8 million to remain free pending trial.

Meanwhile, if Trump is convicted on all 78 counts, assuming he receives the maximum statutory penalties, he could face an astonishing 641 years in prison.

But there remains the Fifth Avenue question. Could a judge legally sentence the former president to a prison cell?

A major obstacle could be a law that guarantees lifetime Secret Service protection to all ex-presidents.

President Obama signed an updated version of that law in 2012, granting protection to minor children until the age of 16 and spouses unless and until they remarry. The law could mean that Trump may have some say in his incarceration and the safety measures taken during any potential prison sentence.

Since 1965, lifetime protection has been afforded to former presi -

This Week In Black History A Courier Staple

• AUGUST 23

1826— This is generally recognized as the day that the first Black person in America graduated from college. His name was Edward Jones and he received his BA degree from Amherst College in Massachusetts. Despite the general recognition, however, there is some evidence that the honor actually belongs to Alexander Lucius Twilight who appears to have graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1823. Nevertheless, Jones would eventually leave America and help establish the African nation of Sierra Leone.

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dents, except for Richard Nixon, who waived it 11 years after his resignation.

Chuck Rosenberg, a former top federal prosecutor, and counsel to then-FBI Director James B. Comey, offered his insights.

“Any federal district judge ought to understand it raises enormous and unprecedented logistical issues,” Rosenberg told the Washington Post.

He said probation, fines, community service, and home confinement are all alternatives.

According to Rosenberg, the possibility of Trump serving prison time is “theoretically, yes and practically, no.” On the Secret Service’s role, experts and commentators have varying opinions.

Mike Lawlor, an associate professor at the University of New Haven, suggested that Trump would likely have “one or two secret service details sitting outside his cell with the correctional officers” if he were to serve prison time.

Michele Deitch, an expert on prison oversight at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs, told Business Insider that a former president would “have a target on his back” and be closely monitored by the Secret Service.

Ronald Kessler, an author specializing in the Secret Service, provided further insights into the potential security arrangements.

He estimated that Trump’s current Secret Security detail could consist of up to 30 officers, with 10 to 12 agents on duty at any time.

Kessler dismissed the notion of just two agents posted at a prison, deem -

ing it “crazy” given the dangerous environment.

“Just think it through,” he told freelance journalist Dave Roos. “What would just two agents do in such a dangerous environment?”

However, Kessler emphasized that if Trump were imprisoned, he would receive no other special treatment and would not be granted access to privileges like a telephone.

“[The prison] would have to serve him meals in his cell,” Kessler said.

“It would just be pure protection.” The prospects of Trump’s potential prison sentence and the accompanying Secret Service protection have raised complex questions that prosecutors may not consider.

Still, the charges the twice-impeached and thrice-indicted ex-president faces come with the possibility of serious prison time.

If Trump is remanded to prison, he “certainly would not be part of the general population,” retired FBI Special Agent Ken Gray told Business Insider.

“You could almost put him in a separate little hut.”

Finally, in an interview on MSNBC, Former Attorney General Eric Holder said the Secret Service could punt its responsibilities of protecting Trump to the Bureau of Prisons.

“If they were called upon to imprison a former president, I think they could come up with a way to do it,” Holder said.

“There is a way in which the Justice Department, the Bureau of Prisons could actually do it,” he insisted.

1854—Dr. John V. DeGrasse , perhaps the most prominent Black person in New England during the pre-Civil War period, is admitted to the Massachusetts Medical Society. DeGrasse was born in New York City in 1825 and graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine.

1950— Chicago attorney Edith Spurlock Sampson is named by President Harry S. Truman as the first African American representative in the U.S. delegation to the United Nations. Sampson was also the first Black female elected judge in the United States. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., around 1901 and died in 1979.

• AUGUST 25

1862— After a disastrous loss to the South during a battle known as the Peninsular Campaign, U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton orders the arming of 5,000 Black soldiers in a bid to turn the tide against the pro-slavery forces. The Blacks (both freedmen and former slaves) fought with distinction winning 15 Congressional Medals of Honor. In fact, the Black soldiers were so effective, near the end of the Civil War, the Confederacy, in a desperation move, actually attempted to recruit Black soldiers to the pro-slavery side.

1908— The National Association of Colored Nurses is founded by Martha Minerva Franklin . At the time Black nurses were not welcomed in the all-White American Nurses Association.

1925— Six men, led by A. Phillip Randolph , organize the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters—a union composed of porters and attendants on the nation’s railroad passenger cars. The effort was the most successful Black labor organizing campaign in American history. The Brotherhood would go on to become the largest and most powerful Black controlled union in America including more than 15,000 members by 1959. Randolph would also become a major (often behind the scenes) figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. He played a key role in Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous 1963 March on Washington. Randolph would often boast that his union was a success not because people loved it, but because it knew how to “push people out of the way.”

1927— The first Black person to win the Wimbledon Singles Tennis Championship, Althea Gibson , is born on this day in Silver, S.C. Gibson won Wimbledon on July 6, 1957. The all-around athlete died on Sept. 23, 2003.

• AUGUST 26

1943— In a primarily token gesture Black Chicago Congressman William L. Dawson is recommended to be the Democratic Party’s vice presidential candidate. For several years, Dawson was the only African American in the United States Congress. He would later be joined by New York’s Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Dawson served in Congress for 27 years, from January 1943 to the time he died in November 1970.

• AUGUST 27

1963— African American activist and intellectual giant W.E.B. DuBois dies in Accra, Ghana, at the age of 95. Born in Great Barrington, Mass., DuBois was one of the most dominant figures in the

African American struggle against racial oppression for nearly 40 years. He helped found the Niagara Movement (precursor to the NAACP) in 1906 and helped organize the first Pan African Conference in London. An educational product of Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., he also taught at Atlanta University in Atlanta, Ga., and edited the NAACP’s Crisis magazine. DuBois was a major opponent of Booker T. Washington’s grand “compromise” with Whites and he argued frequently with Marcus Garvey’s Black separatist ideology. However, the “attacker of injustice and defender of freedom” would eventually become frustrated with the slow, legalistic tactics of the NAACP and the tenacity of American racism. He turned to socialism and late in life went into self-imposed exile in the West African nation of Ghana. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would write of him: “History cannot ignore W.E.B. Dubois because history has to reflect the truth and Dr. DuBois was a tireless explorer of the truth.”

1975— Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie dies at the age of 83. He had worked to modernize the East African nation and rescue his land from foreign White control. Forced to flee Ethiopia when the Italians invaded in 1936, he would later return to lead a resistance movement which freed the country from European domination in 1941. Selassie traced his heritage all the way back to the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon of the Christian Bible. Many Blacks worldwide considered him a holy figure. Indeed, the Rastafarian religion gets its name from his original name Ras Tafari Makonnen. Selassie’s full title was “His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of Judah, King of Kings of Ethiopia and elect of God.”

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AUGUST 28

1955— The body of Emmett Till is recovered from the Tallahatchie River near Money, Miss. The 14-year-old Chicago native had been kidnapped, tortured and murdered the previous day for allegedly whistling at a White woman. Till’s savage death became a rallying cry for the early Civil Rights Movement. Justice was never done in the case, however. The two White men responsible for his death were found not guilty by an all-White Mississippi jury. But both men—Ron Bryant and J.W. Milam—a few months later would brag in an interview with Look magazine that they indeed had killed Till.

1963— The historic March on Washington for Black rights takes place. It was the largest civil rights demonstration in American history, drawing people from throughout the nation to Washington, D.C. It was at this march that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

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AUGUST 29

1920— Jazz legend Charlie “Yardbird” Parker was born on this day in Kansas City, Mo. The saxophonist and composer was one of the leading and most influential figures of the Jazz Age.

1924—Dinah Washington is born in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Her powerful voice would enable her to become one of the most influential singers of the 20th Century. Sadly, she died of a drug overdose in 1963.

1958—Michael Jackson is born on this day in Gary, Ind. The “King of Pop” was the seventh of nine children. He died June 25, 2009, apparently after being given a powerful drug to enable him to sleep.

1962—Mal Goode becomes America’s first Black network news commentator when he begins broadcasting for ABC Television on this day in 1962.

A MOTORCADE CARRYING FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP leaves the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in D.C. on Aug. 3, 2023, following his arraignment on charges related to his attempts to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election (Cleveland Nelson/The Washington Informer)

UNAPOLOGETIC PPS leader Dr. Wayne Walters demands excellence from teachers as new school year begins

Education Coordinator

Alexis Walker. The forum was moderated by Nosakhere Griffin-EL, Ph.D., co-founder of the Young Dreamers’ Bookstore.

The forum focused on how to increase literacy in today’s youth, with an emphasis on Black youth. How can more African American youth start to enjoy the library more?

What role does the library play in making the library more engaging? And is the Pittsburgh Public School district doing its part to get Black youth reading at a proficient level or above?

Of the 60 or so people in attendance at the June 3 event, some people felt that Black students should see more Black teachers in Pittsburgh Public Schools. It’s no secret that White teachers greatly outnumber Black teachers in the district. Some of those in attendance felt that Black teachers will take more of a vested interest in the success of Black students. It’s safe to assume that not everyone in attendance felt the same way, however.

“One thing that I’ll be transparent about,” Dr. Walters said, were the recruitment efforts by the district to get more Black teachers. “The way that we get more teachers of color in the space is only when teachers retire. It’s not like we can decide and

say, ‘you White folks gotta go because we have some Black folks’” that want to teach. “It doesn’t work that way,” Dr. Walters said. “These are protected positions, so as we lose population (in the city), we lose positions. The other piece is that we do have a lot of recruitment efforts with HBCUs and even people here locally. The challenge is, Pittsburgh is not appealing to Black folks, and so we need to own that. We need to celebrate the ‘Most Livable City’ and then we need to ask, for who?”

By now, the crowd in the Homewood Library’s auditorium was truly all ears.

“We have to interrogate those options of what would make you as a Black person in the, say, D.C. area want to even look at Pittsburgh,” Dr. Walters said, with the New Pittsburgh Courier the only media in attendance. “And then when they get to Pittsburgh, how are they embraced and treated?

Not only so much by the system but by the city. I want to offer that as food for thought. We have a recruitment process that is very aggressive, assertive in trying to get educators of color in the door. There are some challenges because in our public school system, you have to be certified to be a teacher...

Some African American teachers are challenged by passing the...exam to become an educator, and

we have to create support systems for that.”

Some support systems are already in place, Dr. Walters said. He also said that “although we know that we don’t have a lot of educators in the classroom, we do have a lot of educators of color at the leadership arm of the district.”

He said three of the six assistant superintendents are Black, the CFO is Black, the communications team is Black, the executive director in charge of equity is Black.

But Dr. Walters said, “I’ll own that right now,” when it comes to the lack of Black teachers. “What I will say as the superintendent is, I don’t necessarily want Black folks, I want quality Black folks in front of our children.”

Dr. Walters, who has been part of PPS for more than 30 years, including roughly eight years as principal of Pittsburgh Obama (in East Liberty), then added: “In these recruitment efforts, we want high-quality teaching from people who are culturally responsive, have a level of critical conscience and want to impart that to our children, and really dedicated to not being friends but insistent on academic excellence, because that is our history. It is not to be the cool teacher and let them slide, because after they (the students) leave and they really get a sense of what they know and what

they don’t know, then they really become angry with that cool teacher and really begin to celebrate the teacher that insisted on high expectations.”

The other panelists had commentary, too, even though to the audience, Dr. Walters stole the show.

Walker, the city’s education coordinator as of March 2023, said that it was important for youth in Pittsburgh to have “a space to really talk about what’s happening in their community,” and the library or school could be the perfect place for congregation.

Medlar, the library’s president and director,

mentioned in his remarks that the Carnegie Library has begun partnerships with HBCUs to start a “library leaders” program. The program aims to create paths to leadership in the field of library work.

He said that currently, only one HBCU in the U.S. has a graduate program in library science, North Carolina Central University. Medlar said $250,000 has been allocated for that effort.

But Dr. Walters wasn’t done with his commentary. “I get in trouble a lot because I don’t water (comments) down. I’m unapologetically student-first but I also believe that our

students need to understand that they have to be well-disciplined and work hard, because the world is extremely cruel to people who are not well-educated,” he said.

Dr. Valerie Lawrence, a poet, writer and educator, was among those in attendance. “I’m really happy to have heard Dr. Walter’s commitment to our children, and knowing some of the issues that truly confront our children,” she told the Courier. Dr. Lawrence added about Dr. Walters: “I thought he was very candid and I’d like others to know that our crisis is just that; our children.”

ALEXIS WALKER is the City of Pittsburgh’s Education Coordinator.

Much-needed affordable housing for seniors coming to the West End

to 60 percent of the Area Median Income. Tryko Partners, the developer, estimates Cedarwood Homes’ construction will be complete by next year. Tryko, based in New Jersey, acquired the multi-family community Emerald Gardens, which is next to the Cedarwood Homes site in 2007. Tryko said in a release that it “purchased the property when it was in financial distress and invested over $10 million to make improvements.”

Officials with the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh and the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh contributed $3 million to Cedarwood’s construction.

“If you want to stabilize a neighborhood, make it affordable,” Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey said at the groundbreaking event, June 22. “Everybody understands that. If you want to stabilize any part of this city, we have to make it affordable. Being over here on the West End, and to be able to see a project like this take off and the commitment that they’re (Tryko) making—I’m just thankful. This is just another way of saying we’re committed to affordability.”

The seniors ages 62 and up who will soon call Cedarwood home will also see walkable, park-like green spaces on the property, according to Tryko. The developer also said there will be a community building on-site to serve as a place for nutrition and exercise programs, financial literacy courses, health screenings and other support services.

Mayor Gainey has made it a priority to tackle the affordable housing crisis in Pittsburgh. But with anything in life, there are supporters and detractors to his strategies. The mayor is faced with the happiness of new housing in the city being developed, but a frown when he learns of how much of the apartments are priced at “market-rate,” a price that oftentimes prices out African Americans from living there.

Specifically for seniors, the city’s Housing Authority has 11 senior-only communities, but none in the West End. The Allegheny County Housing Authority has 16 senior-only communities, but none in the Western areas of the county. The West End has three senior apartments from private landlords; Elliott Heights (Steuben Street), Goodwill Plaza (Hillsboro Street), and

Westlake Apartments (Crucible

Street).

Tryko said it was awarded a 9 percent Low-Income Housing Tax Credit by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency to help make Cedarwood Homes a reality. The HACP also provided $2.1 million in gap financing funding and 24 project-based Section 8 vouchers.

“We are excited to be taking the next step towards revitalizing Pittsburgh’s West End and the Fairywood neighborhood and providing its senior residents with quality housing and support,” said Isaac Sassoon, senior vice president at Tryko, in a statement provided to the Courier.

Theresa Kail-Smith, Pittsburgh City Council President, said seniors have always asked for more living options out West.

“I am excited to see the Cedarwood Homes development finally coming to fruition,” she said in a statement.

CEDARWOOD FROM A1

‘MIXED FEELINGS’

Jail Warden Orlando Harper announces retirement to mixture of praise, criticism

by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer

Allegheny County

Jail

Warden Orlando Harper has announced his retirement, effective Sept. 29.

For some, it’s a sad moment. For others, they were dancing in the streets upon learning of the news.

“I have been honored to serve in this role for over a decade and am announcing my retirement with mixed feelings,” Harper said in a statement sent to the New Pittsburgh Courier, Aug. 8, by the county. “When I first accepted this position in 2012, my intent was to remain here through the end of this administration. While that’s just a few months away, circumstances have changed with my family and, because of that, I’ve moved that end date up.” Harper, who is Black, can celebrate many achievements and improvements during his tenure, according to the county. In 2018, the jail received re-accreditation by the American Correctional Association and Pa. Dept. of Corrections. The review found that the jail met 100 percent of the 62 mandatory standards and 98.6 percent of the 323 non-mandatory standards.

In 2016, the jail launched a pilot program using tables for inmates to better connect them with resources and tools

while incarcerated, according to the county. The program has been viewed a success, according to the county, with incarcerated individuals having better access to learning tools and better options for incarcerated people’s spare time on housing units. The program has been expanded to include virtual visitations, to make calls, and to use the tablets to request healthcare, order commissary items, change an emergency contact, file a grievance, and more, the county said. But on the flip side, there have been numerous deaths at the Allegheny County Jail under Harper’s leadership. Organizations like the Alliance for Police Accountability, led by Brandi Fisher, have lambasted Harper over the years for what she has called unsafe, unsanitary conditions for inmates at the jail.

“I have always preferred to let actions speak louder than words—sometimes to my detriment,” Harper said in a statement. “Regardless of the public narrative about the jail, I’ve seen firsthand the great work done here every day. This dedicated staff has saved and improved countless lives. I’m proud of the work that they’ve done, and the progress that we’ve made together, and thank them for their dedication and commitment to the people we

serve each day.”

The Alliance for Police Accountability, in a statement sent to the Courier, sees things differently.

“While his retirement is exciting news for the residents of Allegheny County, we have been fighting for years to get Warden Harper fired,” said Kyna James, Coalition Organizer for APA. “His departure is long overdue, and it has taken 20 people losing their lives for this to happen. Harper should not be able to leave with a pension, and enjoy retirement when he is a vital part of the torture, and death that has occurred at the Allegheny County Jail. And not just him, County Executive Rich Fitzgerald as well.”

“There are still many dangers our neighbors face inside that need to be addressed at the Allegheny County Jail,” added Rachel Nunes, executive director of the Thomas Merton Center, part of a coalition of factions that demanded changes at the Allegheny County Jail.

“We are still a long way from having a facility that is safe, respects the human rights of each individual incarcerated, and moves the system towards restorative and rehabilitative practices. Our work does not stop here.”

ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL WARDEN ORLANDO HARPER has announced his retirement after 11 years as warden. His last day is Sept. 29.

Rev. W. Roger Randolph III ordained at First English Evangelical Lutheran Church

The Rev. W. Roger Randolph III is a 2023 graduate of United Lutheran Seminary, where he earned a Master of Divinity with a Certificate of Preparation in Black Church Ministry.

Originally from Point Breeze, Pastor Randolph is a 2015 graduate of Allderdice High School, and a 2019 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering with a minor in Africana Studies. He is the son of Sherri and Roger Randolph Jr.

On Saturday, July 1, Pastor Randolph was ordained to the Roster of Word and Sacrament (pastor) in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The ordination took place at his home church, First English Evangelical Lutheran Church in Downtown Pittsburgh.

On Sunday, July 16, members and friends of Christ Lutheran Community Church in Upper

Darby, Pa., gathered to have a worship service where Pastor Randolph was installed as their seventh pastor in 103 years. Earlier that day, he celebrated his first masses at their 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. services.

The congregation voted to call him as their pastor on Sunday, May 28, 2023.

In addition to his parish ministry, Pastor Randolph is also a Captain and Chaplain in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard (PAARNG), serving with the 103D Brigade Engineer Battalion. He has served in the PAARNG for nine years, enlisting as a Horizontal Construction Engineer in 2014. Pastor Randolph has a strong passion for liturgy, the history and tradition of the Church, and speaking eternal truths into our contemporary world. Through his involvement in the church, the seminary, and his membership in Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., Pastor Randolph has worked to serve the most vulnerable people around him. His call as Pastor of Christ Lutheran Community Church excites him greatly, with their robust ESL program, Senior Food Boxes the first Wednesday of each month, Food Pantry the second Thursday of each month, and Fresh for All free produce market each Friday serving the Upper Darby community.

Pastor Randolph stated as he reflected on the last four years of preparation for his calling to ministry: “Seminary was hard. Not necessarily the academics, although they were rigorous and I for sure had challenges, but the time in which I completed my studies was a whirlwind.

I started seminary six months before the pandemic shutdowns began. And since that moment, my seminary experience was forever changed. My ministry put me at the heart of nearly every major societal ‘moment’ we’ve had since. Added into the mix were moves to South Carolina, Massachusetts, and back to Pennsylvania. Then, just as this final school year began, my grandmother passed away from cancer. “I would have gone insane if not for the strength of Christ. If not for the guidance and comfort of the Holy Spirit, I would not have been able to endure this journey. God provided me with a loving and supportive community in my family, my girlfriend Amanda, my parents Sherri and Roger Jr., many friends, and multiple faithful congregations all who prayed for me through this journey. As I look back, all I can say is thank God for all of them.

“Graduating from seminary is not really ‘the end’ of anything, but instead a beginning. It represents a major step on my journey towards ordained ministry and military chaplaincy. But it also represents the obtaining of new knowledge. Not just everything I learned in the classroom, but one important thing that I learned and relearned again and again out of it: that God has blessed me so abundantly, especially in the community God placed around me. Soli Deo Gloria!”

“The Lord is nigh unto ALL them that call upon Him, to All that call upon Him in truth. He will fulfill the desire of them that fear Him: He also will hear their cry and will save them.”

- Psalm 45:18-19

REV. WALKER SAYS: Prayer is simply talking to God in truth. In this Psalm, it tells us that ALL of us can talk to God. The word fear is reverence, for God is Holy.

REV. W. ROGER RANDOLPH III

William C. & Susan A. Delaney Scholarship awardees for 2023 announced

The New Pittsburgh Courier was there when some of the first William C. & Susan A. Delaney Scholarships were awarded to young people looking to further their education posthigh school, five years ago. But then, the COVID pandemic slowed the entire world down. However, the Courier has learned, the scholarships are back. Susan A. Delaney alerted the Courier on Aug. 9

that the 2023 scholarship recipients had been announced. They are: Donay Allen, Taylor Dotson, Julian Livingston, and Kierre Turner. Allen graduated from Fox Chapel High School and is attending Duquesne University for Pre-Law. Dotson graduated from Nazareth Prep High School and is attending Morgan State University. She’s also already a published author. Livingston is a graduate of Gateway

High School and is attending the University of Pittsburgh for art design and marketing. Turner graduated from Pittsburgh Obama Academy and is attending North Carolina A&T for Criminal Justice.

“Our mission has always been to provide financial support to African American students seeking post-secondary educational opportunities enabling them to gain both knowledge and skills to achieve

their professional goals, which allow them to become productive leaders and successful businessmen and women in their communities,” Susan Delaney told the Courier.

William Claude DeLaney was an African American pioneer in the automobile industry in the Pittsburgh area during the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. His story began as a young World War II veteran returning home and un -

able to find a job in the auto mechanics field that he was trained for due to racial discrimination. He quickly realized that the only way to accomplish his dreams was to go in business for himself and become an entrepreneur. Susan A. DeLaney, retired educator and widow of William C. DeLaney, launched the scholarship fund to honor her husband’s legacy as an entrepreneur and her passion for educat -

ing our African American children. Susan Delaney said there have been 19 scholarships awarded in all over the years. For those wanting to become a contributing sponsor for the 2024 scholarship recipients, Susan Delaney can be reached at: susandelaney@verizon.net or 412-759-7337.

‘THROWBACK PHOTO’

HERE’S A “THROWBACK PHOTO” to 2019, when Susan A. Delaney, right, awarded Kyra Fuller with a $1,000 William C. & Susan Delaney Scholarship. (Photo by J.L. Martello)

DONAY ALLEN

JULIAN LIVINGSTON

KIERRE TURNER

TAYLOR DOTSON

Despite a tight housing market, millennials find new paths to wealth creation

by Aaron Allen

The Seattle Medium

(About this series—This article, inspired by Deloitte research, is part of a series in which five Black-owned publications around the United States explore the key factors that contribute to racial and generational gaps in acquiring wealth.)

People under the age of 35 are at risk of falling behind their parents in achieving financial security, according to research by Deloitte. The Seattle Medium spoke to three area millennials who are fighting the odds by improving their financial profiles in the hopes of building a brighter future for themselves and their families.

While sitting on her balcony overlooking Seattle, Kaela Allen sometimes ponders the notion of purchasing a home.

But, said Allen, who works in public policy, buying a house “is not in her shortterm plans” because she does not believe this traditional way of building wealth is attainable right now.

“Homeownership is definitely a dream,” Allen said. “I think I see it as something in a very far-off reality.”

Unfortunately, Allen’s plight is not unique.

According to Deloitte’s analysis of the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances from the Federal Reserve Board, “only 36.2 percent of those under age 35 (mostly millennials) owned a residence in 2019, compared to 41.6 percent of those under 35 in 2004 (most Gen Xers) and 39.4 percent of those under

35 in 1989 (the boomers).”

The millennial generation’s real net worth is also lower than Gen Xers and baby boomers when they were a similar age, the Deloitte analysis shows, even though they make more money than previous generations did. In addition to facing high inflation, high rents, and soaring student loan payments, millennials have suffered through a

number of historic catastrophes—including two global financial crises and a global pandemic.

Despite the odds, there are a number of options millennials are exploring to change their financial futures.

Because housing prices are “through the roof,” Allen, for example, is building up her savings through investments before going out to tackle the real estate mar-

ket.

“Right now, in my mid-twenties, I think stocks [are the best way for me to generate wealth], that’s what I have been exercising the most because it offers me a passive income, and growing my wealth without working,” she said with a laugh.

Her focus on investing is consistent with the Deloitte research, which found that

millennials are more likely to hold stocks and have retirement accounts than earlier generations did at the same age.

“I still work, but I invest monthly,” Allen said. “I have a certain amount monthly that I dedicate toward my investments and build my wealth passively while I’m making the income that I am actually working for.”

According to an estimate

by JMP Securities, individual investors like Allen have aggressively jumped into the stock market, opening 10 million new brokerage accounts in 2020—and it’s believed that a significant percentage of these new investors are tech-savvy millennials. Many of these new accounts come from using

Preparing to get your first credit card: Dos and don’ts

by Stephen Magagnini

Word In Black

Credit, to a great extent, makes the adult world go ‘round.

Wells Fargo executive Raphael Henderson shared his insights on using a credit card responsibly.

Henderson, Vice President and Foothill Corridor Regional Banking District Manager for the Inland Empire Region, has enjoyed a 32-year career in banking. His broad professional experience includes developing business solutions and advising public and private sectors on how to build and sustain mutually beneficial long-term relationships that focus on improving the quality of life for residents and communities.

WIB: What was your first foray into the credit world?

Henderson: I was born in San Diego, California. When I was a sophomore in high school, I had a job working at

Lohman’s clothing store and they were accepting credit cards. I frequently worked in the back office helping them with their collection efforts on checks, and we would often take a credit card payment in lieu of a check.

At the time, I recognized how the adverse utilization and misappropriation of credit could have a negative impact on one’s finances. Even then as a young sophomore I understood the importance of using credit cards responsibly and maintaining a healthy credit profile.

WIB: When did you get your first credit card?

Henderson: While I started receiving credit card offers when I went to college at USC, I didn’t get my first credit card until I had been working for several years and started traveling for work. That is when I felt I had a need for a credit card, so I got my first Mastercard, which I had for several years.

WIB: What do people need to know before getting their first card?

Henderson: It’s important to recognize that credit is essential, and using it responsibly is key to building and maintaining a healthy credit profile. Your credit profile and score can help determine a lot, including employment opportunities, living arrangements, hotel and car rentals—it’s important you look at it from a lifestyle perspective.

Before you get a credit card, the first question you should ask yourself is, can I pay it back? Take care to establish a realistic budget that you can stick to and make sure you understand the full implications of delinquency and what may happen if you fail to pay it back in a timely manner.

In addition, take the time to fully understand your interest rate, and learn if your card provides rewards on certain purchases, such as gas, restaurants, or

travel.

WIB: What credit rules do you follow in your own family?

Henderson: I have two sons who are in college. While they don’t have credit cards yet, we talk a lot about financial literacy in our home so they will be well-informed about how to manage credit responsibly by the time their need to get a credit card arises.

WIB: What happens when you fail to pay off your credit cards or interest?

Henderson: Failing to pay your credit card on time can lead to a delinquent account, which more than likely impacts your credit profile and score. You should always strive to pay the balance in full every month. If paying in full isn’t possible one month, be sure to make at least the minimum payment on time. This is a best practice that will go a long way in building and maintaining a healthy cred-

I liken social media to stand-up comedy. You can test various jokes or ideas and get instant feedback. When I returned to writing, my first published article was, “How can you be Bored and Broke.” I shared the article on social media. Article did numbers. I’ve shared several articles and memes since then. I have yet to duplicate those numbers. Recently I shared a meme on social media. It was titled, “Why some People stay Broke.” This meme did so well and sparked so much conversation within a group of 78,000 members, they took it down. This experience made me look back at various subject matters that I posted on social media. I notice, every time I mention the work “Broke,” it generated massive feedback—both positive and negative. What’s a writer to do?

“Double-Up and Double Down!” I mentioned the word “Broke” twice in the title of this article.

When I was a kid, we use to joke around saying, “you might be ghetto if…..” We’d name something funny we’ve observed that you can only appreciate in the hood. We’re going to do something similar in this article. But first, let’s define “Broke” and distinguish it from “Poor.” Ric Edelman said “Broke” is a matter of the wallet. “Poor” is a matter of the mind. You can fix broke. Poor? Not so

much. To be broke is to be completely out of money. You can earn a high income, spend it all and be broke. Being in debt is worse than being broke. When you’re broke, you simply need money. When you’re in debt, you need money to pay the debt only to end up broke.

Regardless of your income level, if you’re a non-saver you’re going to eventually end up BROKE. Saving is the cornerstone of financial stability. Not saving is stupid. You cannot outearn stupidity. That should be obvious, but it’s not. So, we’ll delve deeper. You might be broke or end up broke if you don’t identify and fix what I’m about to list below.

Myopic Perspective—Woe it’s me!

The little man can’t get ahead. Nobody wants to see me win. Poor is a state of mind. You have to fix your “stinking-thinking.” You are what you think.

If you think that you’ll be broke and miserable the rest of your life, you’re right. You’ve accepted status quo and refused to do anything about it.

Too lazy to work—You don’t work, you don’t eat—so says the Bible. If you’re

of sound mind and able body and you refuse to work because you don’t feel like it, WOE! It’s YOU! Your ability to work is your greatest asset. Your income generated from working is your largest wealth-building tool. If you’re avoiding working because you don’t want to pay child support or you think some captain-save-achick is going to rescue you, apply for Social Security Disability, you’re mentally unstable. Good luck with getting approved.

Fishing for compliments—You go girl! You’re the man! We all love compliments. Are compliments worth our financial stability? Suze Orman said, “People spend more than because they feel less than.” There’s nothing wrong with having nice stuff as long as you act your wage and ensure there’s money left over to save after you pay your bills.

Dreads the B-word—People think they’re limited and restricted by budgets. What limits and restricts you is your income, not your budget. A budget is a spending, saving and investment plan. If you want to spend more, save more, and invest more, you need to earn

more. Easier said than done, right? It requires less effort, blood, sweat and tears to reduce expenses than it does to increase income. A budget allows you to prioritize your money, life, and time.

Saving isn’t a priority—Money you save today is either your future goals, future lifeline, or future paycheck. Money talking...If you save me today, I’ll save your butt tomorrow. Yet the average person saves less than $.05 for every $1.00 earned. No savings equal no financial stability. Low savings equal no financial security. Inability to save means you’re doomed to financial ruin.

Debt is hazardous to your wealth—

Credit increases your purchasing power but reduces both your standard of living and your net worth. When you use credit, you pay more because of interest. When you use credit, you allocate a portion of your income to payments for an extended period of time. Hard to save when you owe. Use credit wisely? NO! Use credit only when absolutely necessary! Broke people consistently pay interest. Wealthy people consistently earn interest. You may think they’re wealthy. They should earn interest. They became wealthy by avoiding debt

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it profile that will serve you for years to come.

It’s important to remember that help is available. Banks and lending institutions have a tremendous amount of resources to help you establish and maintain credit.

• What’s the best time to get your first credit account?

o Before applying for your first credit card, you will want to be confident that you will be able to afford any charges you make and handle your credit responsibly. This means that you won’t charge more than you can afford to pay and will remember to pay your bill on time each and every month.

• Understanding the basic requirements for credit:

o Credit providers are governed by specific federal laws when it comes to granting credit. It can be challenging to get your first credit account if you are under 21 and don’t have a steady income. Federal law requires anyone under 21 years old to have verifiable income from a job to be approved for credit. You also may choose to report child support or government sourced income on a credit

application.

• Key steps to building credit:

o To build a healthy credit history, you first must know which activities impact your credit score and report. A credit report is a record of your credit activity and how responsibly you’ve paid your credit accounts over time.

o Having a checking or savings account helps

the bank know you and how you manage your accounts. This can be helpful when applying for your first credit account.

o Learn more about credit scores

o Explore more resources about building a solid credit history.

o View my FICO Credit Score

o Understanding the difference between credit

scores

o Good credit habits (Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.) (The Financial Journey is a unique series focused on financial education and opportunities. These stories have been created through a strategic partnership between Wells Fargo and Word In Black.)

You might be ‘Broke’…

and saving money earning compounded interest instead of subjecting their hard-earned income to a life-time of payments.

Those are the major keys to staying broke or ending up broke. Following are other reasons you might be broke if:

• You own a car you can’t afford

• You own a house you can’t afford

• You don’t invest in yourself

• You don’t have any goals

• You’re an impulsive shopper

• You buy liabilities instead of assets

• You don’t have an emergency fund

• You blame others for your financial demise

• You purchase financial products you don’t understand

• You don’t separate wants for needs

• You have poor spending habits

• You don’t seek to un-

derstand personal finance

• You spend more than you earn.

• You don’t consistently save or invest

• Your money seems to magically disappear with nothing to show for it

• You make emotional purchases and confuse

fun for happiness

Who wants to be broke?

Nobody! Heed the advice. Identify areas where you may be falling short and fix it. Those of us who are 40 and over, we made our fair share of financial mistakes. Our working years are numbered. We don’t

have time to keep repeating these mistakes and expecting our mistakes to fix themselves. (Damon Carr, Money Coach can be reached at 412-216-1013 or visit his website @ www.damonmoneycoach.com)

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wealth-building apps, which provide a low-level entry point to the stock market. Users of these apps can quickly construct investment portfolios with a few clicks on their smartphones.  Deloitte’s research

Deloitte’s research offers insight into the innovative investment management solutions that have emerged to complement millennials’ spending habits. Examples of these include:

• Product innovations: Considering the huge debt burden on millennials, some fintech firms are experimenting with micro-investing. Investors can save and invest small sums of

would like to generate wealth in the future, the reality is that many of them, just like members of the generations before them, are consumers.

Seattle real estate developer Albert Clark (no relation to Kiana) says that consumerism can clutter the pathway to financial independence. He said he sees too many young people who are trapped by credit card debt and living paycheck-to-paycheck.

It’s easy to get caught up in the “consumerism of everything—financing this, financing that through credit cards,” he said. “If you’re just starting out, you don’t want to take on a lot of consumer debt.”

And unlike previous gen-

money from their savings or spare change from their credit card expenses.

• “Smart” experiences: Millennials are using smartphones as their personal assistants, enabling them to perform everyday activities, including maintaining shopping lists, making payments, and posting product reviews.

• Pricing innovations: Fintech firms and incumbent investment managers are competing on price to capture millennials’ assets. The launch of zero-fee funds in mid-2018, along with zero-commission platforms, was a seismic shift in the traditional investment management industry.

• Community platforms: Considering the social media and do-it-yourself preferences of millennials, a number of community-based investment solutions have been launched.

Shifting generational priorities

Kiana Clark, a graduate student in computer science, says passive income streams like these are appealing because she values flexibility.

She currently works as a medical assistant but plans to start her own tech business so she can prioritize time for herself. Plus, she sees entrepreneurship as a more viable path to success than “renting” her time out to others through employment.

“For me, the best way [to generate wealth’] is owning your own business,” Kiana Clark said.  She is also building her financial future through real estate.

“Home ownership and property ownership are the cornerstones of wealth-building, and as a homeowner, I discovered there are a lot of benefits that come with [it],” she said. “Owning your own business, building your credit up, and owning property as an investment — those types of things are more beneficial in our generation.”

“[My parents] didn’t get into homeownership as an investment tool because they didn’t have that exposure to real estate being an investment tool as I did, whereas [the way] I look at it, I can buy multiple homes and build an inheritance for my kids when I’m gone.”

Breaking the consumption cycle While many millennials have a plan for how they

erations, many young people today spend money on things that they don’t own. They pay for rides instead of buying a car. They rent an apartment or room in a house, even when they can afford to buy a home. A smaller percentage of them even rent clothes or have a clothing subscription—all of which can eat away at their disposable income.

Responsibly stewarding one’s financial future has its ebbs and flows, so it takes vision, planning, and action—but more importantly, discipline.

“You can do that through real estate, life insurance policies, a 401(k) plan— all of these things—and if you’re lucky, stocks can add to it,” said Albert Clark.

Building wealth for him, he said, is about more than just achieving personal comfort and freedom, though. It’s about creating long-term prosperity that can be shared.

Unlike his parents— who saw homeownership as a form of stability to help raise their family—Albert Clark views his real estate portfolio as a family legacy.

“[My parents] didn’t get into homeownership as an investment tool because they didn’t have that exposure to real estate being an investment tool as I did, whereas [the way] I look at it, I can buy multiple homes and build an inheritance for my kids when I’m gone.

“You have wealth so you can pass it onto the next generation,” he said. “These are things you can pass on to your children, and your children’s children. So, my thought process is that building wealth is for the future, not for me today.”

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DAMON CARR FROM B1

Black people in a new world order

Black people are decidedly different from White people. To be sure, these differences are far from just skin color. In addition to biological and genetic differences, there are cultural differences. This is true even though the African continent, being extremely diverse, has cultural elements that are similar all over the Black world.

Black people in America demonstrate many traits in common. Of course, some of these came from our similar experiences with slavery and oppression. Others, however, have surfaced with seemingly no general outside influences.

If observed long enough, it is apparent that Black and White people have had a tendency to focus on different hemispheres of the brain. White people seem to have a predisposition toward technology and organization. Generally, they appear to be interested in how things work and using their analytic abilities to study everything; to be explorers and in many instances conquerors.

White people also demonstrate a love of cultural activities, but there are differences between the White esthetic and the Black one. White classical music exemplified by the works of Bach, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, et al, is extremely complex but focuses on different musical structures when compared to music created by non-white people. The music is written in a manner that requires study in order to decode the symbols on paper. To play many “classical compositions,” a person has to really understand how to “read music.”

Black music, on the other hand, carries just as much emotion as can be found in so-called classical music, and is no less complicated. The difference can be seen in the brilliant improvisational skills depicted in Jazz, Blues, Rock & Roll and other music that has roots in the African Diaspora.

At this point it must be said that the structure of the modern world is closing in on folks in such a manner that an amalgamation of cultures is becoming apparent. The human personality is such that people are now exposed to greatly divergent cultures. Japanese youth are adopting Hip Hop, and music, film, art, etc., are being shared and embraced by all types of people.

Ultimately, a homogenization of sorts seems to be happening on a global scale wherein cultures are blending into one another. This is not to say people are abandoning their own traditions; it is noticed that a lot of new ideas are being included in ancient practices.

This demonstrates the notion that everyone, everywhere is now on a course in history where the world is literally shrinking. We are becoming that global community that has been anticipated since people started discussing the idea of a “New World Order.”

Interestingly, Black people are in an excellent position to play a major role in this New World Order. The African Diaspora has shown the ability to influence culture all over the planet, and though in this historic dispensation the darker races were not the latter-day originators of modern technology including, but not limited to AI, the community has demonstrated a mastery of every endeavor attempted. It is also becoming known that a lot of modern ideas were initially pioneered by Black people.

In addition, when assessing historical records, Black people have been able to master circumstances in spite of overwhelming odds. There appears to be one exception to the Black community’s penchant for mastery; that is the inability of Black people to organize and unify toward a common goal. This may be due to the low self-esteem that manifests in the basest aspects of our culture. We have seen the use of negative and obscene fare that generates excessive amounts of money while literally degrading Black people.

From the ubiquitous profanity, degradation of each other, and a focus on the lower aspects of human endeavors, Black people are losing out. While we bicker with each other, the dominant political powers in the world go about their business of shaping the world in their image through a focus on technical innovation, financial intrigue, war, climate change, and exploring the universe while making plans to live off planet. The Black community, on the other hand, is still mired in the debris of oppressive behavior. The tide is turning; if the Black community refuses to wake up and unify in order to carve a better future for ourselves and our posterity, we may, indeed, end up being left behind! Let’s focus on important things and leave the self-destructive issues, like killing and disrespecting each other, behind. A Luta Continua.

(Reprinted from the Chicago Crusader)

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What’s next?

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—Many of us have been consumed with the antics of Donald Trump for far too long.  It’s clear that those won’t end soon, but he seems to be in good hands now for us to believe justice will be served.

He’s in good hands with Judge Tanya Chutkan who is overseeing Trump’s case in Washington, DC.  She was appointed to her position by President Barack Obama.  She doesn’t seem to be planning to keep us wondering how she will handle the trial.  I don’t think his antics will work with her.

He will have his day in court with no-nonsense District Attorney Fani Willis in Fulton County, Georgia. When Ms. Willis says she and her team are ready, she makes me feel that she has left no stone unturned. With the way, Trump has been trying to taunt her with his lies about her, I have no doubt about her readiness. When these two sisters have completed their job, Trump will have to face New York State Attorney General Tish James who has been ready!  Trump will have to go back to New York to see District Attorney Alvin Bragg.  I don’t think his bat will help him there.  E. Jean Carroll was awarded 5 million dollars, finding that Trump sexually abused her, and she stands to receive 10 more million dollars from Trump for his sexually abusing her and for battery and defamation.

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If none of that has yet put him in jail, let’s start with his uncontrollable tongue repeatedly calling Special Counsel Jack Smith a deranged individual and a sick puppy. It seems that sometime next year, Mr. Smith will have the opportunity to get him through the jailhouse door!  That’s what people I know are waiting for every time they hear Trump denigrating everybody, and almost daring them to appropriately punish this man as he continually taunts us with his ability to walk down 5th Avenue, shoot somebody, and get away with it.  He’s got double digits of charges, and with all his bravado, he appears to be sweating up a storm these days.

Our justice system seems to be darned harsh for ordinary citizens— especially for Black people. There is no way to explain why Trump is not already locked up! We continue to hear “No one is above the law; yet many go on television and say things that make us wonder if they really think a former president shouldn’t be sent to jail or not be punished for

such craziness. Some even say Trump should be pardoned. I just heard somebody say he probably won’t be jailed because of the expense of his being entitled to lifetime Secret Services protection and we, the taxpayers, will have to pay for it!  Give me a break!

This man has done so much damage to this country that he deserves a life sentence.  He’s even cheated so many MAGA followers who continue to send him money they can’t afford to send, but because he has incited their ignorance so much that they would rather be broke and White because they think their whiteness makes them better than any person of color!

As for the rest of us, let’s treat everybody fairly.  Let’s work for peace, for love, and pray for justice for not only Trump but for all of those involved in betraying the nation and for stirring up more hate and more ignorance than we’ve experienced in modern times.

Don’t forget to pray for Ronald DeSantis to come to his senses and stop stirring up his silly anti-woke nonsense, his illegally firing of people who were elected to serve the interests of the people in his state, and his spreading ignorance about how great slavery was for Black people!

(Dr. E. Faye Williams, President of The Dick Gregory Society—found at http://thedickgregorysociety.org/.)

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America

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—America was founded on an idea—that all people had the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness—and if that right was to flourish, it must be grounded in democracy—in the basic right of all to choose their own leaders, to vote and have their votes counted. It was a revolutionary idea at the time and remains so today. Yet today across America—and in the past across American history, the right to vote is and has always been contested.

In Ohio today, voters will vote on Issue 1, a ballot initiative invented by Republicans in the state legislature to make it harder and more expensive for voters to pass ballot initiatives in the future. It would double the number of counties needed for signatures to get an initiative on the ballot— and it would require approval of 60 percent of the public for an initiative to pass, instead of the simple majority required now.

The goal—publicly admitted by the initiators—is to try to block the Reproductive Freedom Amendment, which will be on the ballot in November. It will also make it harder to pass an initiative raising the minimum wage that young people are trying to get on the ballot.

Ohio is a perfect example of how democracy can be suppressed. Having gained majorities in the state legislature, Republicans drew gerrymandered political districts to entrench their majorities. They packed the courts with partisan jurists. That left the ballot initiative as one of the only ways meaningful changes supported by a majority of voters can be achieved. Now Republican legislators want to make that

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process less accessible, scheduling the election in August when turnout is historically abysmally low. From Arizona to Florida, other Republican dominated states are doing the same, while passing a range of measures to make it harder for college students, poor people, African Americans, and offenders who have served their time to vote. After voters in Florida passed a ballot initiative empowering former offenders to vote, Republican legislators passed measures to gut the reform.

At the national level, the new Republican majority in the House has followed suit, introducing a July election reform act that aims at making it harder to vote. It would overturn executive orders encouraging federal agencies to promote voter registration, require stricter voter ID and mail-in voting rules. In intervening in the DC laws on voting, it provides a model for the states that would ban same-day voter registration, require annual purging of the voting lists, ban community ballot collection, restrict drop boxes, ban universal mail-in voting, and more.

The measures all have one thing in common—they want to make it more difficult to register and to vote, impediments that hit the young, minorities, the poor, and the working class harder than the affluent.

Democrats in the House and Senate

in contrast reintroduced the Freedom to Vote Act, that would end partisan gerrymandering, curb dark money in elections, protect state and local election officials from threats, encourage same-day voter registration, mail-in voting and more.

Lurking beneath this partisan divide is racial division. Blacks and Latinos (as well as the young) tend to vote Democratic by large margins. So, Republicans peddle fantasies about voting fraud in order to justify making it harder to vote. Donald Trump’s effort to overturn his 2020 election defeat was grounded on the racist assumption that voting in urban areas—Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit, Phoenix—was corrupt and fraudulent. There was no evidence to support that belief—as Republican officials informed Trump and judges ruled in some 60 cases—but Trump and Republican legislators peddle the lies to justify reforms to make voting harder next time.

The right to vote has always been contested in America. When the nation was founded, only White male property owners enjoyed the right. It took decades of struggle for working people, African Americans, women, and the young to gain that right. Again and again, an entrenched minority threatened by a growing majority imposes measures to constrict the right to vote.

That happened after the Civil War, as segregation and terror negated the right of former slaves to vote. It is happening now once more as the Republican Party seeks to consolidate its grasp against a growing, diverse majority. Democracy and the right to vote will always be challenged by those who fear the majority.

Who gets to play?

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—As summer winds down to a close, and folks start rushing back to school or work, the memories of their vacations perhaps sustain them when, after Labor Day, the business of fall quickly engulfs them. There’s that Gershwin song from Porgy & Bess, “Summertime and the Living is Easy,” recorded more than 25,000 times with artists as diverse as Ella Fitzgerald and Willie Nelson. There’s that no-caring vibe that so many exude. Summer feels like, “Let’s go out to play.”  Who gets to play?

In the European Union, workers get 20 days a year for vacation. Stores are nearly deserted in Paris this month because people are off! In contrast, the average worker gets just eleven days of vacation in the United States. If they’ve worked in corporate America, the average worker gets just one week and has to work for up to five years before getting even two weeks. Many think educators get the summer off, and some faculty have the summer for research and preparation. But many k-12 teachers are paid so little that summer is the time for them to get their side hustle on. Some are driving for ride-share companies like Uber and Lyft.  Others have lined up consulting, tutoring, or other assignments. The other day, I had a ride with a math teacher who said his salary was

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too low to sustain his family. During the summer, he puts 12-hour days into ride-sharing. He’s one of the millions who don’t get to come out to play. Then there are the people who cobble a living working two or three parttime jobs. More than 8 million have multiple jobs. Who knows what kind of juggling they are doing? Do any of their jobs provide them with vacations? When do they unplug? Reflect? Get an opportunity to exhale.

Just like everything else in our society, leisure is unevenly distributed. Those with more means and more access have more opportunities to play. Those who are simply surviving don’t have playtime, reflection time, or other downtime. The European Union edict that everyone, regardless of where they sit on the economic totem pole, gets 20 days a year off is an egalitarian recognition of the human right to leisure. We in the United States are not as far along. Instead of rewarding labor with time off, we exploit workers in as many ways as possible, extract-

ing surplus value from their work.

A tipping economy is an exploitative economy. In most states, tipped workers earn just a quarter of untipped workers. It is expected that they’ll make their low pay up with their tips, and many do. But tips are discretionary and depend on rapport and other intangibles. In the race/gender matrix, will a White man be more generously tipped than a Black woman? And why must servers wear a mask to make a living?

Those on the bottom distribution of the tipped continuum may be among those who don’t get much leisure time. There is little data on leisure, so most of my thoughts are interpretations and extrapolations. But as I listen to people wax rhapsodic about their vacations, their “happy places,” the wind and the sun and the beaches, I can’t help but think of those who don’t get time to enjoy wind, sun, and beach.  Summer is a time when many come out to play. What happens to those who don’t have that opportunity? Do they live in Langston Hughes’ dream deferred? Do they dry up like a raisin in the sun, fester like a sore, and then run? Do they sag like a heavy load? Do they explode? Workers are exploding, striking, and demanding, and it’s about time.

(Dr. Julianne Malveaux is an economist, author, commentator, and activist.)

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Why I am fighting for greater visibility for diabetic men and women

More than 25 years ago, I collapsed onstage while performing. I had no idea what was happening, but that night in the hospital, when I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, my life was forever changed.

At first, I was angry, and I was terrified. I watched my aunt and uncle lose their sight, and my mother lost both her legs before she died in her 60s due to diabetes. I know firsthand the toll that this disease can take. It took me a while to do something about my diabetes. I was in denial. I kept my old unhealthy eating habits. If it was battered or fried, I ate it!

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Prioritizing history is hard—a tough experiment

History may be the only discipline where laypeople regularly accuse the professionals of misteaching the subject. It makes no difference how thoroughly an educator explains why particular events were included or deleted from the curriculum; laypeople continue to accuse the educators of “whitewashing” history.

Before questioning the history curriculum, laypeople should conduct the following thought experiment: Make a list of events in American history that all students should know.

To do so, we must first understand how little time students have to study the subject. Then we have to determine the significance of an event before it’s listed.

TIME Assume a kid had one hour of history class every day from first to twelfth grade. Now we’ll turn all of the hours into days. An hour per day, five days a week, is 20 hours per month, or 240 hours per year. After twelve years, the student has 2,880 hours. Divide that total by 24 hours, and we have 120 days.

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States, although there’s also North America, Central America, and South America.

stated that it was journalism, not history, and the conflict is over who controls the narrative. For far too long, the creators said, one group has monopolized it, creating a myth of exceptionalism.

These aren’t just different perspectives. They are competing worldviews. Laypeople consider past events important only if they reinforce their worldview, but the idea is to teach the history of the United States of America. How it was founded, evolved, and advanced over time. This is accomplished through events of historical significance. SIGNIFICANCE

Laypeople say history is written by the victors. That quote is attributed to Winston Churchill, but Churchill and all his quotes were canceled. Professional historians write history, and when prioritizing history, they consider four fundamental factors.

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Eventually, I realized my glucose levels weren’t getting any better, and I knew it was time to do something. I made a conscious choice to prioritize my health and change my way of living. I turned to my love of cooking to overhaul my diet. It meant I had to put down the butter and pick up the vegetable steamer. I would even take my pots and pans with me on tour and cook in my suite with ingredients from the local farmer’s market, just so I could better control my food intake. Has it been easy? No. But has it paid off? Absolutely.

Black people and diabetes

The more attention I pay to my health, the better I feel. Exercise and I are not friends, but I started becoming more active—whether walking my dog and exercising in my pool or hopping on the elliptical machine. I use my Dexcom continuous glucose monitor (or CGM) to stay on top of my glucose levels throughout the day, without the need for painful finger pricks. It lets me know where my glucose levels are and where they’re headed, all with a glance at my iPhone. I can even share my levels with members of my family and my physician so they can keep a close eye on them, too.

I am proud of how far I have come on my health journey, and I am blessed and privileged to have an incredible support system in my doctors, family and friends. But millions of Americans in this country are not as fortunate.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1 in 10 Americans have diabetes (34 million), and approximately 90 percent of them have Type 2 diabetes.

Black people are 60 percent more likely to develop diabetes than White people, and in 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that Black people were twice as likely as white people to die from diabetes. Lots of things are making this true, but it doesn’t have to be this way.

Patti LaBelle lost three sisters to cancer. Now, she’s telling adults to ‘take heed and get checked’

Living with diabetes has never been easier; insulin pumps talk directly to continuous glucose monitors and automatically deliver insulin, and you can keep a close eye on your glucose levels from your smartwatch or phone without pricking your finger—no one likes to do that!

But this amazing technology is still not in the hands of people in Black communities and communities of color. A recent survey of people with insulin-treated diabetes found that most believe they deserve new technology to manage their disease, and I couldn’t agree more.

Why are so many of us out here fighting diabetes with the same old tools that have been around since my aunt, uncle and mother were diagnosed? If today’s health care system provided more coverage for (and access to) these technologies, millions of lives could be saved.

A ‘divabetic’ advocating for others

Diabetes is often invisible to everyone except those living with it, and for too long, minorities have felt invisible in this country. They deserve to feel seen and heard. I am proof that you can not only live with Type 2 diabetes but also live well with it. I am not a diabetic, I’m a divabetic! And I am proud of it. That is why this November, along with the Global Movement for Time in Range, I am sharing my story to amplify this important topic, and advocating for better access to diabetes technology and asking that decision-makers take action for communities of color to receive the care they need.

Whether you have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, care for someone with diabetes, or you simply believe that people with diabetes deserve better, you can take action too by joining the conversation at wheninrange.com.

It’s time that we all truly #SeeDiabetes, because we can’t help change what we cannot see.

(Patti LaBelle is a singer, actress, author and advocate. Follow her on Twitter: @MsPattiPatti)

Students actually have less time. Summers and holidays are not taken into account. Students in this experiment study history all day. Even with the rigors of the student’s daily schedule, there is still insufficient time to cover the previous 400 years, let alone 4000.

So, where do we begin—400 years ago or 4000?

AMERICA

To address that question, we must first decide whether we are teaching the history of “America” or the history of the United States of America. Geography and idealism are two factors that divide the concept of “America.”

“America” is shorthand for the United

If we concentrate on the evolution of both continents, we must first analyze how they were initially populated, which began over 4,000 years ago. However, every minute we spend on indigenous “America” BCE takes time away from events in the formation and growth of the United States of America. Since our focus is on the country, not the continents, we’ll have to start 400 years ago. This time, “America” is shorthand for an idea summarized by freedom, democracy, and equality. This is the traditional idea. There’s also an alternative idea that says “America” is exploitative, aristocratic, and unequal.

Conservatives endorse the traditional idea in order to instill patriotism, civic duty, and American exceptionalism. President Trump went as far as to establish a commission to develop a “pro-American” history curriculum because he accused the alternative of being anti-American. Obviously, the alternative is more progressive, but that doesn’t mean it’s anti-American. The alternative, however, does not believe in American exceptionalism. The creators of the 1619 Project, which became supplemental course material in public schools,

Historians begin by looking for what is new or novel about a person, event, location, or idea. Then it must be relevant in the present. The third factor is how long the incident has been remembered and whether its significance has increased over time. The final consideration is impact. The greater the number of people affected, for better or worse, the greater its significance.

Now, make an effort to build a list of key events in US history, not events that are noteworthy from a narrow worldview of “America.” If you are truthful, you will discover two things.

1) It is quite difficult to decide what to cover in such a short period of time.

2) Almost every item on your list will already be in the curriculum.

The byproducts of every Floridian’s right to vote—a right that exists at the very fabric of our democracy—find themselves suddenly threatened under the weight of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential aspirations. Recent actions by the governor paint a troubling portrait of what could happen in other areas of the United States should his campaign’s goals become realities.

Even beyond the decisions and positions that many have decried as racist in nature, DeSantis’ most recent maneuvering has unveiled a disturbing narrative.

Democratic State Attorney Monique

Worrell was elected in 2020 by her constituents with an overwhelming 67 percent of the vote, representing a mandate affirming her campaign platform and qualifications. However, Worrell now finds herself suspended by DeSantis, the same man who heralds a promise of equitable leadership.

The Florida governor cited “neglect of duty” as the grounds for her suspension.

“Elected officials are being taken out of office solely for political purposes, and that should never be a thing,” Worrell said during a recent news conference.

“There used to be a very high standard for the removal of elected officials. There used to be a standard that I would have been criminally prosecuted for something, neglecting my duties—meaning that I’d not show up for work and do my job—or that I have some sort of an illness that prevented me from doing my job.”

She continued:

“But under this tyranny, elected officials can be removed simply for political purposes and by a whim of the governor,

Racist

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—“With Trump, you don’t need to look for a dog whistle. It’s a bull horn when it comes to race. And I do think that’s deliberate. We’ve seen the—I mean, slanderous attacks that he has put out against Fani Willis, you know, alleged things I won’t even repeat. So, he’s not really hiding that he’s going to lean into that element, and this is, you know, taking place just outside of Atlanta. When you saw the courtroom, it was a lot of Black men and women who are serving in that courtroom …  It’s textbook Donald Trump but it comes as no surprise.”— Former White House Director of Strategic Communications Alyssa Farah  If anything illustrates the depths to which Donald Trump and his supporters have sunk in responding to his racketeering indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, it’s his reference to those he falsely accuses of voter fraud as “riggers.”  MAGA extremists, who have been using the word as a substitute for the n-word on far-right social media sites, responded with racist delight.

Trump has put a dishonest, racist, and misogynistic spin on the old legal adage: If the law is against you, pound the facts. If the facts are against you, pound the law. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.  But no amount of pounding and yelling can obscure the breathtaking

and no matter how you feel about me, you should not be OK with that.”

Worrell wasn’t alone in surmising that a sitting governor who seeks the highest office in the land but is comfortable with using their office to employ dubious tactics, like unjustly suspending duly elected officials, casts a shadow over the principles upon which the nation was founded.

“For months, this governor has chosen to not only attack but abuse the power of his office to feed red meat to his conservative base and remove elected officials who threaten his agenda,” Florida Democratic Congressman Maxwell Frost stated.

“But once again, it’s our communities and the people of Florida that have become pawns in DeSantis’s long-term plans for total and absolute power,” Frost asserted.

DeSantis, flanked by two local sheriffs—a puzzling absence of overlap with Worrell’s jurisdiction—commandeered the spotlight in a press conference that underscores the partisan narrative at play.

Making a mockery of justice, one of the sheriffs thrust Worrell’s suspension into a meme-worthy spectacle, utilizing a photoshopped image to lampoon her

predicament.

“Worrell refused to faithfully enforce the laws of Florida,” DeSantis claimed, failing to offer tangible evidence and refusing questions from reporters.

He claimed that Worrell routinely avoids minimum mandatory sentences for drug trafficking offenses, allowing juveniles to avoid serious charges and jail time and avoiding sentence enhancements.

“I have no doubt that today’s decision is not only consistent with the constitution and laws of Florida and that we have a right to act,” DeSantis claimed.

“I know that today’s decision, we had a duty to act to protect the public from this dereliction of duty.”

Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried said, with the suspension of Worrell, DeSantis had pulled a veil over justice and imposed a reign of his own making.

Fried said the voice of democracy had been stifled, replaced by a chorus of self-interest, and the repercussions of the governor’s power play extend beyond state lines.

She said they underscore a dangerous precedent that, if left unchecked, could herald an era where democracy bows to tyranny.

“Ron DeSantis has gone too far,” Fried asserted. “Monique Worrell is a devoted public servant—one who was elected overwhelmingly by her constituents. This political hit job threatens our democracy and undermines the will of the people.”

(Stacy M. Brown is NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent)

members engaged in “various related criminal activities including, but not limited to, false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer, forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state, acts involving theft, and perjury.”

lawlessness outlined in the sweeping indictment Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed this week against Trump and his 18 alleged co-conspirators.  By charging them under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act Willis has at last cast their brazenly corrupt conduct in the proper legal light.

While the narrowly-focused federal indictment that Special Counsel Jack Smith filed against Trump earlier this month acknowledges six alleged co-conspirators, they are neither identified nor charged.  Fulton County’s indictment of 18 co-conspirators—and reference to 30 more unnamed, unindicted co-conspirators—illustrates the far-reaching scope of the massive scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Trump’s alleged criminal enterprise operated not only in Fulton County, but “elsewhere in the State of Georgia, in other states, including, but not limited to, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and in the District of Columbia.”  Its

Omitted from the federal indictment was an alleged conspiracy to breach voting equipment and access voter data.

“In Georgia, members of the enterprise stole data, including ballot images, voting equipment software, and personal voter information. The stolen data was then distributed to other members of the enterprise, including members in other states.”  Nor does the federal indictment refer to a bizarre plan, advocated by Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, to use the military to seize voting machines around the country and re-run parts of the election.

Future historians will rely on Fulton County’s case, not the federal government’s, for the full story of one of the darkest chapters in American history. The meticulous work of Willis and her team is all the more remarkable given the constant abuse and threats of violence, incited by Trump, that his supporters have hurled at them. Regardless of the outcome, Team Willis as well as the witnesses and grand jurors whom MAGA extremists also have targeted, will emerge as the heroes.

attacks can’t hide the massive lawlessness on display in Fulton County, Ga.

Democracy under siege—DeSantis power play reveals alarming glimpse of America’s future

Marc H. Morial

To Be Equal

Stacy M. Brown Commentary

CONDITIONS OF SALE

Effective with the August 3, 2020 Sheriff Sale of real estate and all such monthly public sales thereafter shall be conducted virtually through video conferencing technology or live streaming. The Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office shall provide for up to twenty-five persons to participate in person with physical distancing in the Gold Room, 4th Floor Allegheny County Courthouse. ALL PARTICIPANTS OR BIDDERS MUST BE REGISTERED AT LEAST 7 DAYS BEFORE THE DATE OF THE SALE IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE (VIRTUALLY OR IN PERSON) AT THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SALES OF REAL ESTATE. REGISTRATION WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY SHERIFF’S WEBSITE: SHERIFFALLEGHENYCOUNTY.COM. The Successful bidder will pay full amount of bid in CASH, CERTIFIED CHECK OR CASHIERS CHECK at time of sale, otherwise the property will be resold at the next regular Sheriffs Sale; provided, that if the sale is made on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 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. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2023, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 8:30AM AND 2:30PM IN THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE. And the balance in CASH, CERTIFIED CHECK, OR CASHIERS CHECK, on or before MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2023 at 10:00 O’CLOCK A.M. The property will be resold at the next regular Sheriff’s Sale if the balance is not paid, and in such case all money’s paid in at the original sale shall be applied to any deficiency in the price of which property is resold, and provided further that if the successful bidder is the plaintiff in the execution the bidder shall pay full amount of bid ON OR BEFORE THE FIRST MONDAY OF THE FOLLOWING MONTH, OTHERWISE WRIT WILL BE RETURNED AND MARKED “REAL ESTATE UNSOLD” and all monies advanced by plaintiff will be applied as required by COMMON PLEAS COURT RULE 3129.2 (1) (a).

FORFEITED SALES WILL BE POSTED IN THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE AND LISTED ON THE SHERIFF OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY WEB SITE.

AMENDMENT OF THE CODE SECOND CLASS COUNTY NEW CHAPTER 475 THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY CODE OF ORDINANCES, CHAPTER 475, ENTITLED TAXATION IS HEREBY AMENDED THROUGH THE CREATION OF A NEW ARTICLE XII, ENTITLED, “SHERIFF SALES”, AND COMPRISED AS FOLLOWS: SUBSECTION 475-60: RECORDING OF DEEDS AND NOTIFICATION OF SHERIFFS SALES TO TAXING BODIES.

A. FOR ANY REAL PROPERTY OFFERED AT SHERIFFS SALE DUE TO NONPAYMENT OF REAL ESTATE TAXES AND PURCHASED BY A THIRD PARTY THROUGH SUCH SALE, THE SHERIFF SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR FILING THE DEED AND, WITHIN SEVEN DAYS OF FILING OF THE SHERIFFS DEED, PROVIDE WRITTEN NOTICE OF THE CONVEYANCE TO THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY OFFICE OF PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS. THE WRITTEN NOTICE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBSECTION SHALL INCLUDE THE DATE OF THE SALE, IDENTIFICATION OF THE PROPERTY SOLD BY BOTH ADDRESS AND LOT AND BLOCK NUMBER, AND THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE INDIVIDUALS OR OTHER ENTITY THAT PURCHASED THE PROPERTY.

B. AT THE TIME OF THE SALE THE SHERIFF SHALL COLLECT ALL REQUISITE FILING COSTS, REALTY TRANSFER TAXES AND FEES, NECESSARY TO PROPERLY RECORD THE DEED.

C. WITHIN SEVEN DAYS OF RECEIPT OF WRITTEN NOTICE FROM THE SHERIFF, THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY OFFICE OF PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS SHALL FORWARD COPIES OF SUCH NOTICE TO ALL TAXING BODIES LEVYING REAL ESTATE TAXES ON THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE MUNICIPALITY AND SCHOOL DISTRICT WHERE THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED. AS REQUIRED BY SECTION 14 OF ACT NO. 77 OF 1986, THE COST OF ALL DOCUMENTARY STAMPS FOR REAL ESTATE TRANSFER TAXES (STATE, LOCAL, AND SCHOOL) WILL BE DEDUCTED BY THE SHERIFF FROM THE PROCEEDS OF THE SALE. Purchasers must record their deeds and pay the necessary recording fees. Pursuant to Rule 3136 P.R.C.P. NOTICE is hereby given that a schedule of distribution will be filed by the Sheriff not later than 30 days from date of sale and that distribution will be made in accordance with the schedule unless exceptions are filed thereto within 10 days thereafter. No further notice of the filing of the schedule of distribution will be given.

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

NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT ALL SHERIFFS DEEDS TENDERED TO

PURCHASERS WILL CONTAIN THE FOLLOWING:

“This document may not sell, convey, transfer, include, or insure the title to the coal and right of support underneath the surface l and 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.”

1 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) JASON L. KATZ and

DENISE SMITH, ********************

CASE NO. AR-22-000212

*************

DEBT$ 5,138.85

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, Township of South

Fayette:

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A HUNTING

RIDGE NO. 6 CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION

DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED

AS 2469 BROOK LEDGE ROAD, UNIT 33A, BRIDGEVILLE, PA 15017. DEED BOOK

PAGE 453. BLOCK AND LOT

033A-00.

2 SEPT 23 DEFENDANT(S) MARY BETH SCIUBBA NK/A MARY B SCIUBBA,

MG-23-000252

OF ATTORNEY(S) Michelle Pierro, Esq. (PA ID No. 317454)

OF ATTORNEY(S)

Arensberg,

3 SEPT 23

TOWNSHIP OF STOWE vs DEFENDANT(S) MICHAEL A. FOOR AND BRANDON LEE LUECKERT ******************** CASE NO. GD-22-012063 DEBT $6,045.50 ********* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) CHRISTOPHER E. VINCENT ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 546 WENDEL ROAD, IRWIN, PA 15642 ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 724-978-0333 SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,

69-C-16

6 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) CHRISTINE R. AGGAZIO AKA CHRISTINE RENEE AGGAZIO

********************

CASE NO. MG-23-000180

************* DEBT $55,570.79

********* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Michelle Pierro, Esq. (PA ID No. 317454)

***********************

ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

1500 One PPG Place Pittsburgh, PA 15222

ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER:

(412) 566-1212

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

******************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Twenty-Ninth Ward, City of Pittsburgh, formerly known as Carrick:

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 401 BIRMINGHAM AVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15210. DEED BOOK VOLUME 10586, PAGE 307

BLOCK/LOT# 32-N-249

7 SEPT 23

PLAINTIFF(S) Penn Hills School District and Municipality of Penn Hills vs DEFENDANT(S) James Stefan, Known Heir of John R. Stefan, Deceased, David Stefan, Known Heir of John R. Stefan, Deceased and All Unknown Heirs of John R. Stefan, Deceased CASE NO. GD 22-005925

DEBT $18,133.01

NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire

ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER:

242-4400 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills:

PARCEL 1: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 185 COAL HOLLOW ROAD, VERONA, PA 15147.

DEED BOOK 15247, PAGE 387.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 367-N-145;

PARCEL 2: BEING ALL THAT CERTAIN

VACANT LAND BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS COAL HOLLOW ROAD, VERONA, PA 15147. DEED BOOK 15247, PAGE 387. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 367-N-161; AND PARCEL 3: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A COMMERCIAL BUILDING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 270 COAL HOLLOW ROAD, VERONA, PA 15147. DEED BOOK 15247, PAGE 387. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 367-N-336.

12 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF HOANG H. DANG DECEASED, TRUC GARRY SOLELY IN HER CAPACITY AS HEIR OF HOANG H. DANG, DECEASED

******************** CASE NO. GD-22-014533

************* DEBT $194,688.03

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, 19TH WARD CITY OF PITTSBURGH:

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING

BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 743 MAYVILLE AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15226. DEED BOOK 17937, PAGE 37. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 61-B-16.

13 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) ANGEL LOU SKULOS BOULIS ******************** CASE NO. MG-19-001353

************* DEBT $988,282.77

********* 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 4010 MUIRFIELD DRIVE, PRESTO, PA 15142. DEED BOOK 10930, PAGE 620. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 199-L-19

14 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) EDWARD WAUGH AKA

EDWARD P. WAUGH

CASE NO. MG-22-000796

************* DEBT $81,913.81

********* 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 COMMONWEAL TH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF PLUM:

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING

BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 270

FIESTA DRIVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15239. DEED

AS MARBURY ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED

26 SEPT 23 DEFENDANT(S) MARK D. HUTCHIN, SHANTEL M.

HUTCHIN

CASE NO. MG-20-000401

DEBT $86,212.03 *********

NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) KML LAW GROUP, P.C.

$317,894.10

OF ATTORNEY(S) PATRICK J WESNER, ESQUIRE

OF ATTORNEY(S) 9000 MIDLANTIC DRIVE, STE 300, PO BOX 5054, MT LAUREL, NJ 08054 ************************** ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (856) 810-5815 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION:

******************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, and 15th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh:

Parcel# 1:

Having Erected thereon a Residential

Dwelling being known and numbered as 308 KAERCHER STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15207. Deed Book 11262, Page 424. Block and Lot

PA 15234. DEED BOOK 13217, PAGE 31. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 190-G-208.

27 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF GEORGEANN C. DONNELLY DECEASED CASE NO. MG-22-000881 DEBT $64,665.65 ********* 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 COMMONWEAL TH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, 29TH WARD CITY OF PITTSBURGH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 413 SINTON AVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15210. DEED BOOK 9729, PAGE 609. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 95-L-316.

28 SEPT 23 DEFENDANT(S) Sherry Leaf-Wittkopp, Known Heir of Merna Wittkopp, deceased, Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns and All Persons, Firms or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest from or under Merna Wittkopp, Deceased ******************** CASE NO. MG-19-001257 ************* DEBT $78,795.49

NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Stephen M. Hladik, Esquire

OF ATTORNEY(S) Hladik, Onorato and Federman, LLP 298 Wissahickon Avenue, North Wales, PA 19454

ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER:

(215) 855-9521

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 9TH WARD OF THE CITY OF MCKEESPORT:

PARCEL NO. 1: HAVING ERECTED

THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL

DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 3421 STEELE STREET, MCKEESPORT, PA 15132. DEED BOOK VOLUME 10387, PAGE 522. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 381-L-76.

Rose M. Susa

CASE NO. GD 22-000302 ************* DEBT $3,530.23

NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire

HEIR OF ANTHONY T. SIMS, DECEASED AND UKNOWN HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS, AND ALL PERSONS, FIRMS, OR ASSOCIATIONS

CLAIMING RIGHT, TITLE, OR INTEREST FROM OR UNDER ANTHONY T. SIMS, DECEASED CASE NO. MG-22-000678

************* DEBT $138,190.14

********* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph A. Sulon, Esquire, Hill Wallack LLP

ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 1000 Floral Vale Blvd. Suite 300 Yardley, PA 19067

NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) LOGS Legal Group LLP ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 3600 Horizon Drive, Suite 150 King of Prussia, PA 19406 ************************** ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (610) 278-6800 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION: ******************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, MUNICIPALITY OF PENN HILLS:

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 158 BRIDGE STREET, VERONA, PA 15147. DEED BOOK VOLUME 8956, PAGE 255, BLOCK AND LOT 063 l-B-00049-0000-00.

29 SEPT 23 PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough VS.

William Thompson

ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 525 William Penn Place, Suite 3110 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 281-0587

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of South Fayette: Having erected thereon a one story frame house being known as 213 Bridge Street, Presto, PA 15142. Deed Book Volume 10148, Page 523. Block & Lot No. 258-C-1.

37 SEPT 23

PLAINTIFF(S): County of Allegheny vs. DEFENDANT(S) Rick Shets a/k/a Richard Sheets, with Notice to Heirs and Assigns

******************** CASE NO. GD 23-002135

DEBT $6,513.79

NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Joseph W. Gramc, Esquire

ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 525 William Penn

DEBT $22,472.00

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 COMMONWEAL TH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF MCKEES ROCKS:

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING

BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1149 CHURCH AVENUE, MC KEES ROCKS, PA 15136. DEED BOOK 5722, PAGE 587. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 72-S-150.

Wilkinsburg:

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A THREE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 727 HILL AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 16970, PAGE 114. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 232-J-86.

30 SEPT 23

PLAINTIFF(S) Penn Hills School District and Municipality of Penn Hills VS. DEFENDANT(S) HARRY G. DELANCEY, WITH NOTICE TO KNOWN HEIRS AND ASSIGNS

CASE NO. GD 21-015130 *************

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 100 Fawn Drive, Wexford, PA 15090. Deed Book Volume 17149, Page 231, Block & Lot No. 1824D-ll.

49 SEPT 23

PLAINTIFF(S): Hampton Township School District vs. DEFENDANT(S)

53 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) PATRJCIA A. WAGNER CASE NO. MG-22-000339 DEBT $98,911.65 ********* 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, 20TH WARD CITY OF PITTSBURGH: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1306 CARNAHAN ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15220. DEED BOOK 8595, PAGE 643. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 36-C-1-A.

54 SEPT 23 DEFENDANT(S) NEMETH AND SONS, LLC, a Pennsylvania limited liability company, and MARK G. NEMETH, an adult individual, and MGT MANUFACTURING CORPORATION, a Pennsylvania corporation, jointly and severally, ******************** CASE NO. GD-16-013843

DEBT $124,384.12

NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Jaclyn M. DiPaola, Esq ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 812 Ivy Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15232

ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 412-802-6666

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Liberty:

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A COMMERCIAL BUILDING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2805 LIBERTY WAY, MCKEESPORT, PA 15133. DEED BOOK VOLUME 10078, PAGE 251, BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 465-R-227

55 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) MICHAEL SPARGAL ******************** CASE NO. MG-23-000367 ************* DEBT $59,595.78

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, BOROUGH OF LIBERTY:

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2708 E STREET, MC KEESPORT, PA 15133. DEED BOOK 14342, PAGE 260. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 465-R-309.

56 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) GEORGETTA THALMAN AKA GEORGETTA M. THALMAN ******************** CASE NO. GD-22-000906 ************* DEBT $34,206.37 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 COMMONWEAL TH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, TOWNSHIP OF WEST DEER: HAVING ERECTED THEREON

NO. GD 22-015453

$36,887.19

OF ATTORNEY(S)

L. Cerce, Esquire

OF ATTORNEY(S)

S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203

AND LORI A.

TELEPHONE NUMBER:

DESCRIPTION:

the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Elizabeth:

1) HAVING ERECTED THEREON

A THREE FAMILY DWELLING BEING

l<NOWN AND NUMBERED AS 511

7THAVE., ELIZABETH, PA 15037. DEED

BOOK 14325, PAGE 159.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1133-S-377;

(PARCEL 2) HAVING ERECTED THEREON

A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING

KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 610 BAYARD ST., ELIZABETH, PA 15037. DEED

BOOK 15783, PAGE 198.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1133-R-97.

62 SEPT 23

PLAINTIFF(S) Wilkinsburg School District and Wilkinsburg Borough VS.

DEFENDANT(S)

CARL C. JORDAN

CASE NO. GD 17-003019

************* DEBT $51,909.23

********* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)

Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire

***********************

ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)

424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203

ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER:

(412) 242-4400

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Wilkinsburg:

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE

FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 2042 LAKETON ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15221. DEED BOOK 18620, PAGE 71. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 297-B-81.

63 SEPT 23

PLAINTIFF(S) Penn Hills School District and Municipality of Penn Hills VS. DEFENDANT(S) Robert A Satryan, Sr CASE NO. GD 22-013346

DEBT $12,933.05

********* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire

*********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203

ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER:

(412) 242-4400

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SHORT DESCRIPTION:

In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills:

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 11738 JOAN DRIVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15235. DEED BOOK 10556, PAGE 458. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 450-E-304.

65 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) DAVID D. LEE, INDIVIDUALLY, AS

ADMINISTRATOR AND HEIR OF THE ESTATE OF SHAWNTA M. MOORE A/ KIA SHAWNTA M. LEE A/KIA SHAWNTA MOORE A/KIA SHAWNTA MARRELLE

MOORE-LEE; UNKNOWN HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS AND ALL PERSONS, FIRMS OR ASSOCIATIONS

CLAIMING RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST

FROM OR UNDER SHAWNTA M. MOORE A/KIA SHAWNTA M. LEE A/KIA SHAWNTA MOORE A/KIA SHAWNTA MARRELLE MOORE-LEE ******************** CASE NO. MG-22-000413

************* DEBT $ 30,310.05

NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)

Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC ***********************

ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 133 GAITHER DRIVE, SUITE F MOUNT LAUREL, NJ 08054

ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER:

855-225-6906

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, 2nd Ward of the City of Clairton: Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 412 Baker Avenue Clairton, PA 15025. Deed Book Volume

13943, Page 468. Block and Lot 0879-S00230-0000-:-00.

66 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) Michelle A Shiring

CASE NO. MG-23-000127

************* DEBT $31,154.85

********* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)

PATRICK J WESNER, ESQUIRE

***********************

ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)

9000 MIDLANTIC DRIVE, STE 300, PO BOX 5054, MT LAUREL, NJ 08054

ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER:

(856) 810-5815

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, and the Borough of arnegie HAVING currently erected thereon a single family dwelling being known as 618 6th Avenue, arnegie, PA 15106, Deed Book

12913 Page 384, Block and Lot 0103-N00140-0000-00

67 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) Jason L. O’Connell

********************

CASE NO. GD-22-015398

DEBT $84,467.78

NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)

PATRICK J WESNER, ESQUIRE

ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)

9000 MIDLANTIC DRIVE, STE 300, PO BOX 5054, MT LAUREL, NJ 08054

**************************

ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER:

(856) 810-5815 ********************************

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

********************

In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, and the Municipality of Penn Hills HAYING currently erected thereon a single family dwelling being known as 1817 Loretta Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15235, Deed Book 12177 Page 565, Block and Lot 0632-K-00298-0000-00

68 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) Timothy E. Lewis and Karen M. Lewis CASE NO. MG-22-000386 DEBT $121.213.84

********* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)

PATRICK J WESNER, ESQUIRE

ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 9000 MIDLANTIC DRIVE, STE 300, PO BOX 5054, MT LAUREL, NJ 08054

**************************

ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER:

(856) 810-5815 ********************************

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

In the Commonwealth of Peru1 ylvania, County of Allegheny, and the Municipality of Monroeville HAVING currently erected thereon a ingle family dwelling being known as 101 Edgemeade Drive, Monroeville, PA 15146, Deed Book 12977 Page 6, Block and Lot 0741-G-00023-0000-00

70 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) WILLIAM C. HUEHN

CASE NO. MG-22-000627

DEBT $138,681.98

********* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Stephen Panik,

OF PENNSYLVANIA,

OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF CASTLE SHANNON:

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING

BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 707

RIEHL DRIVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15234.

DEED BOOK 16876, PAGE 419. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 139-J-121.

64 SEPT 23 DEFENDANT(S) MATTHEW A. FRANK AfK/A MATTHEW FRANK, IN HIS CAPACITY AS HEIR OF BARBARA FRANK; GREGORY FRANK, IN HIS CAPACITY AS HEIR OF BARBARA FRANK; UNKNOWN HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS AND ALL PERSONS, FIRMS OR ASSOCIATIONS CLAIMING RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST FROM OR UNDER BARBARA

DEFENDANT(S) Edward L. Wallace and Dewanda D. Wallace

********************

CASE NO. MG-23-000393

DEBT $100,431.31

NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)

Kristine M. Anthou, Esquire

ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)

Grenen & Birsic, P.C.

One Gateway Center, 9th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15222

ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER:

(412) 281-7650

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

******************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Township of Stowe:

Parcel 1: HAVING THEREON A VACANT

LOT KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS MCKINNIE

AVE, MCKEES ROCKS, PA 15136. DBV

17433, PG 141, B/L #73-S-147.

Parcel 2: HAVING THEREON A VACANT

LOT KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS MCKINNIE

AVE, MCKEES ROCKS, PA 15136. DBV

17433, PG 141, B/L #73-S-148.

Parcel 3: HAVING THEREON A VACANT

LOT KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS MCKINNIE

AVE, MCKEES ROCKS, PA 15136. DBV

17433, PG 141, B/L#73-S-149.

Parcel 4: HAVING THEREON A VACANT

LOT KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS MCKINNIE

AVE, MCKEES ROCKS, PA 15136. DBV

17433, PG 141, B/L#73-S-150.

Parcel 5: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A

DWELLING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS

38 MCKINNIE AVE, MCKEES ROCKS, PA

15136. DBV 17433, PG 141, B/L#73-S-152.

76 SEPT 23

PLAINTIFF(S) MOON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT VS.

DEFENDANT(S) MICHAEL JOHN IVOSEVIC

********************

CASE NO.GD-23-000322

DEBT $12,235.86

NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)

Elizabeth P. Sattler, Esquire

ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)

445 Fort Pitt Boulevard, Suite 503, Pittsburgh, PA 15219

**************************

ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER:

412-391-0160

********************************

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

********************

In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, TOWNSHIP OF MOON:

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING, KNOWN AS 112 SOUTH PATTON DRIVE, CORAOPOLIS, PA 15108. DEED BOOK 15078, PAGE 8. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER

697- M-60.

77 SEPT 23

PLAINTIFF(S) BETHEL PARK SCHOOL

DISTRICT VS. DEFENDANT(S)

******************** CASE NO. MG-20-000095

DEBT $61,741.88 *********

NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Manley Deas Kochalski LLC

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 Pittsburgh, Ward 20:

Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 2916 Banksville Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15216. Document Number 2014-12123, Deed Book Volume 15599, Page 591. Block and Lot Number 0063-B-00133-0000-00.

84 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) HUNTER JACKSON HARRIS HOLDINGS INC. ******************** CASE NO. GD-23-000100

DEBT $49,212.21

NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) SARAH A. ELIA ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 2000 MARKET STREET, 13m FLOOR PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103 **************************

ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: 267-295-3364 ********************************

SHORT DESCRIPTION: IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, BOROUGH OF GLASSPORT:

SEPT

92 SEPT 23 PLAINTIFF(S) Penn Hills School District and Municipality of Penn Hills VS. DEFENDANT(S) Davon Lee Reynolds, Jr. ******************** CASE NO. GD 22-011509 ************* DEBT $17,157.37 NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203

the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Municipality of Penn Hills: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 305 JEFFERSON ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15235. DEED BOOK 17255, PAGE 424. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 449-R-173.

93 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S)

ELLEN M. GLEASON, LINDA S. KELLY

CASE NO. MG-20-000163

************* DEBT $76,668.23

********* 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, BOROUGH OF WILKINSBURG:

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING

BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1017 OSAGE DRNE, PITTSBURGH, PA

15235. DEED BOOK 17002, PAGE 374.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER

297-L-246.

94 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) Skeeter E. Hicks, Nicole B. Hicks

CASE NO. GD-22-006424

************* DEBT $120,366.01

********* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) LOGS Legal Group LLP

*********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 3600 Horizon Drive, Suite 150 King of Prussia, PA 19406

ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER:

(610) 278-6800

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, BOROUGH OF MUNHALL:

PARCEL 1: HAVING THEREON A VACANT LOT BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS W. MARIGOLD STREET, HOMESTEAD, PA 15120. DEED BOOK VOLUME 10776, PAGE 422, BLOCK AND LOT 0180-F-00032-0000-00.

PARCEL 2: HAVING ERECTED THEREON A DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 220 WEST MARIGOLD STREET, HOMESTEAD, PA 15120. DEED BOOK VOLUME 10776, PAGE 422, BLOCK AND LOT 0180-F00036-0000-00.

95 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) RONALD STYCHE, III, IN HIS CAPACITY AS HEIR OF KANDY M. STYCHE; MICHAEL J. STYCHE, IN HIS CAPACITY AS HEIR OF KANDY M. STYCHE; TIMOTHY J. STYCHE, IN HIS CAPACITY AS HEIR OF KANDY M. STYCHE; JAIMIE L. STYCHE, IN HIS/HER

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 852- K-127.

79 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) Mark Wagner, as Believed

Heir to the Estate of Daisy E. Wagner; Unknown Heirs to the Estate of Daisy E. Wagner (if any); Unknown Administrators to the Estate of Daisy E. Wagner (if any)

CASE NO.GD-23-001033

************* DEBT $45,372.55

********* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S)

Manley Deas Kochalski LLC

*********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S)

P. 0.

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A MULTI FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 830-832 OHIO AVENUE, GLASSPORT, PA 15045 A/KIA 830 OHIO AVENUE, GLASSPORT, PA 15045. DEED BOOK VOLUME 18529, PAGE 577. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 558-F-3. 85 SEPT 23 DEFENDANT(S) ONE THORN RUN ASSOCIATES, A. RICHARD NERNBERG, SUSAN NERNBERG, A. RICHARD NERNBERG, AS TRUSTEE OF THE A. RICHARD NERNBERG AMENDED AND RESTATED REVOCABLE DEED OF TRUST, DATED MAY 25, 2018, AND SUSANL. NERNBERG, AS TRUSTEE OF SUSAN L. NERNBERG AMENDED AND RESTATED REVOCABLE DEED OF TRUST, DATED MAY 25, 2018 CASE NO. GD-23-006835 DEBT $9,325,286.80 ********* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Mark G. Claypool ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) Knox McLaughlin Gomall & Sennett, P.C., 120 West 10th Street, Erie, PA 16501 ************************** ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (814) 459-2800

PA 15063. DEED BOOK 9818, PAGE 480. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1738-N-360;

(PARCEL 3) HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 8832 ROBERTS HOLLOW ROAD, ELIZABETH, PA 15037. DEED BOOK 15933, PAGE 388.

BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 1573-B-328

91 SEPT 23

PLAINTIFF(S) Keystone Oaks School District VS. DEFENDANT(S) Jeffrey Leslie Varian CASE NO. GD 23-002408 DEBT $40,352.69

********* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Jennifer L. Cerce, Esquire

*********************** ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 424 S. 27th Street, Ste. 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER: (412) 242-4400

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SHORT DESCRIPTION:

In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, Borough of Dormont:

HAVING ERECTED THEREON A SINGLE FAMILY ROWHOUSE BEING KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1329 TENNESSEE AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15216. DEED BOOK 8570, PAGE 340. BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER 98-D-54.

CAPACITY AS HEIR OF KANDY M. STYCHE; UNKNOWN HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS AND ALL PERSONS, FIRMS OR ASSOCIATIONS CLAIMING RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST FROM OR UNDER KANDY M. STYCHE CASE NO. MG-22-000667

************* DEBT $78,777.96

********* NAME OF ATTORNEY(S) Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC

ADDRESS OF ATTORNEY(S) 133 GAITHER DRIVE, SUITE F MOUNT LAUREL, NJ 08054

************************** ATTORNEY TELEPHONE NUMBER:

(610) 278-6800 ******************************** SHORT DESCRIPTION:

******************** In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, and Township of Scott:

Having erected thereon a dwelling being known and numbered as 441 Carothers Avenue Carnegie, PA 15106. Deed Book Volume 12886, Page 502. Block and Lot 0102-G-00097-0000-00.

96 SEPT 23

DEFENDANT(S) Steven J. Cable

******************** CASE NO. MG-21-000228

************* DEBT $100,229.32

NAME

TREASURER’S SALE SALE BY THE TREASURER OF THE CITY AND SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PITTSBURGH OF REAL ESTATE TO SATISFY UNPAID CLAIMS FOR CITY, SCHOOL AND ALLEGHENY COUNTY TAXES TO BE HELD ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2023 AT 10:00 A.M.

Notice is hereby given that pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 171 of 1984, approved by the Governor October 11, 1984, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which in part authorizes and empowers the City Treasurer of cities of the second class to sell, at public sale, lands or real estate upon which the taxes assessed and levied by the City or School District or Allegheny County are delinquent and unpaid; this Act is known as the Second Class City Treasurer’s Sale and Collection Act. The following properties in the City of Pittsburgh will be exposed to public sale in City Council Chambers, City-County Building 5th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA, on Friday, September 1, 2023 at 10:00 A.M. and continued by adjournment to such time or times, as the City Treasurer shall designate such properties shall be sold for unpaid taxes which have been assessed against said properties. The following schedule shows (opposite each numbered property or properties) the City, School and County taxes for 2022 and prior years as well as PWSA, demolition, and other municipal charges which are unpaid but does not include advertising, posting and lien charges all of which are legally due and must be paid prior to the above date and time of sale in order to avoid sale. Names shown are those of owners, lienholders, or other known interested parties who may retain a legal interest in the property described. Said Sale will be made without prejudice to any other liens or claims of the City, School District of Pittsburgh or County of Allegheny, for any other unpaid taxes, or other municipal charges and claims, whether liened or not, against the respective property which have been inadvertently omitted and not included herein.

TERMS OF SALE: As soon as the property is struck down, the purchaser shall:

(1) Immediately pay the advertised amount by cashier/certified check or cash set forth opposite the particular property sold. Payment must be in cash, certified check or cashier’s check.

(2) Any amount bid in excess of the upset price must be received in the Department of Finance on or before 2:00 P.M. the day of sale. Funds to be paid by cash, certified check or cashier’s check.

(3) Pay any and all other City, School and County tax claims and municipal charges and claims, whether liened or not, together with any penalty and interest, advertising cost, posting cost and County Department of Court Records’ costs owed against the property purchased upon demand after the sale.

(4) Failure to comply with item 3 will result in the initial payment being forfeited and the sale being canceled.

For information call the Office of the City Treasurer, City of Pittsburgh, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Phone: (412) 255-2525

Jennifer Gula, Treasurer, City and School District of Pittsburgh

Tenth Ward

1. ZAPLER KENNETH & ZAPLER RUTH

CT W, ZAPLER PLAN OF LOTS LOT 1 = 25.91 X 101.12 X

PARTIAL CLAIM................$2,675.02

Thirteenth Ward

2. PATTEN PETER - 1130175C00302 00. HALE ST, E H BOSSINGER PLAN 1 LOT 43.64XAVG65.26X6.58 RR HALE ST COR MULFORD (UNF) PARTIAL CLAIM...............$15,833.42

4. DORSEY WILLIAM S & DORSEY DOLORES A - 1130175C00369 00. HAMILTON AVE, BANK OF COMMERCE ADDN PLAN PT 211 LOT 39.79XAVG 137.402X40 RR

GARAGES

Deadline/Closing/Cancellation

Schedule for copy, corrections, and cancellations: Friday noon preceding Wednesday publication

PARTIAL CLAIM...............$25,235.75

Fourteenth Ward

5. REESE MELANEE J - 1140125R00211 00. MCPHERSON BLVD, BLVD PL PLAN PT 29 LOT 27X140 MC PHERSON ST BET LINDEN & DALLAS 2 STY STN & BRK HSE 6817 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$18,597.49

Fifteenth Ward

6. MCCAULEY FRED J - 1150056L00071 00. 234 E ELIZABETH ST, LOT 16.69X75 ELIZABETH ST 2 STY BRK V HSE 234 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$49,073.88

Eighteenth Ward

7. LANESE MICHAEL K - 1180003R00173 00. ARLINGTON AVE, JOHN BROWN PLAN 4 LOT 25XAVG162.50X33.57 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$41,114.08

8. DUKU HOPE MELISSA SPIVEY - 1180015F00223 00. INDUSTRY ST, BOGGS PLAN 5.59 FT 22 & PL 23 LOT 30.5X120 IN A LL INDUSTRY ST 2 ST BRK & SHG HSE 54 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$17,170.46

9. BARTLETT MEDEA S & RICHARD S SCOTT - 1180015F00224 00. INDUSTRY ST, L L BOGGS PLAN 24 LOT 25X120 INDUSTRY ST 2 1/2 STY FRA ALUM HSE 56

PARTIAL CLAIM................$3,247.70

Twenty-Third Ward

10. BEYOND MEASURES & INVESTMENT PROPERTIES, L - 1230024F00084 00. 1007 SALTER WAY, VERINA ITEN PLAN PT 51 LOT 22XAVG56.54 SALTER W AY 2 STY FRA (INSEL BRK) HSE #7

PARTIAL CLAIM...............$10,997.13

1240047P00359 00. 106 SOLAR ST, WM MARTIN PLAN 64-65 LOT 44X100 IN ALL SOLAR ST 2 1/2 STY FRA-ALUM SDG SDG HSE 106

PARTIAL CLAIM................$8,752.08

Twenty-Fifth Ward

16. EST OF GLADYS M CHERRY - 1250023C00002 00. 11 BELLEAU ST, 11 LOT 20X100 BELLEAU ST 2 STY FRA HSE 11 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$40,456.42

17. FOLEY FRANCIS M & ESTOF PATRICIA ANN BUCK - 1250023C00066 00. CATOMA ST, PT 46 LOT 23X30

CATOMA ST 2 STY FRA HSE 1617 RR MEADVILLE ST

PARTIAL CLAIM................$3,222.10

18. MAMAUX VIVIAN Y - 1250023C00159 00. 1708 MEADVILLE ST, 190 LOT 20X100 MEADVILLE ST 2 ½ STY FRA HSE 1708 FRA & SHG GAR

PARTIAL CLAIM................$6,043.55

19. PEACH BLOSSOM & PROPERTIES LLC - 1250023C00195 00. 1611 MYLER ST, COL JAMES ANDERSON PLAN LOT 10 =23X115X23X115

PARTIAL CLAIM................$1,953.09

20. GLS DEVELOPMENT INC - 1250023D00050 00. 2 EDENVALE ST, JAMES ANDREWS PLAN PTS 56-57

LOT 48X30 IN ALL E DENVALE ST 2 STY FRA-ALUM HSE #2

PARTIAL CLAIM...............$44,068.39

21. SOLID GROUND PROPERTIES & LLC KEVIN R THOMPSON CEO - 1250023D00072 00. 20 EDENVALE ST, IRREG LOT 19.93X165X65 EDENVALE ST COR FINEVIEW AVE 2 1/2 STY FRA STUCCO HSE 432 1 STY

GARAGE PARTIAL CLAIM...............$45,110.60

22. JOHNSON ROY J & JOHNSON STACEY L - 1250023D00079 00. 63 EDENVALE ST, EDENVALE PLAN PT

36 LOT 23XAVG68.75X23.86 RR 2 1/2 STY FRA-SHGL HSE #63 FRANK ANDREWS PLAN PT 36 IRREG LOT 46X71.42 EDE NVALE ST PARTIAL CLAIM...............$48,051.94

23. GONZALES RAYMOND A & EST OF CATHERINE M - 1250023D00096 00. 1723 WARREN ST, JAMES ANDREW PLAN 72 LOT 23X120 WARREN ST 2 STY FRA SHG & ALUM SDG HSE 1723

PARTIAL CLAIM...............$23,123.15

24. GONZALES RAYMOND A & EST OF CATHERINE M GONZA - 1250023D00097 00. WARREN ST, JAS ANDREWS PLAN 17 LOT 23X120 WARREN ST PARTIAL CLAIM................$2,223.90

25. YANNOTTI THEODORE - 1250023D00107 00. EDENVALE ST, JAMES ANDREWS PLAN PT 63 LOT 23X70 WARREN ST JAMES ANDREWS PLAN PT 64 LOT 23X60 EDENVALE ST PARTIAL CLAIM..................$936.60

26. FILSINGER RONALD J JR & FILSINGER PAM - 1250023D00108 00. 6 EDENVALE ST, PTS 61-62 LOT 13.89X120 PARTIAL CLAIM...............$15,308.20

27. CIT GROUP CONSUMER & FINANCE INC - 1250023D00110 00. 4 EDENVALE ST, LOT 17.43X120.03 WARREN ST 2 STY FRA HSE 4 EDENVALE

9 PILSEN ST, LOT 30X105 PILSEN ST 2 STY FRA-ALUM SDG HSE 9 JOHN D HOUSTON PLA 9 LOT 30X80 PILSON ST COR RI GA WAY 1 STY C B GAR

PARTIAL CLAIM...............$65,471.99

38. EST TRIPP BERTHA MATTHEWS - 1250046S00348 00. 74 EDENVALE ST, LOT 20X120.98 WARREN ST

2 STY FRA HSE #74

PARTIAL CLAIM................$6,055.57

39. HESS GRACE M - 1250046S00359 00. 1901-1905 WARREN ST, LOT = 54.00 X 120. 89 X 55.00 X 132.00

PARTIAL CLAIM...............$50,016.20

40. OGDEN ROBERT E & EST OF SALLY A OGDEN - 1250046S00371 00. WARREN ST, LOT 93XAVG154X50 RR WARREN ST PARTIAL CLAIM...............$18,051.90

41. MCSHANE RUTH - 1250046S00389 00. EDENVALE ST, R HENDERSON PLAN HRS LOT 54XAVG97X55 RR EDENVAL E ST PARTIAL CLAIM...............$15,406.68

Twenty-Sixth Ward

42. GRZANDZIEL GARY M - 1260047C00236 00. 47 SCHUBERT ST, A KOHLER PLAN 35 LOT 25XAVG149.9

SCHUBERT ST 2 STY VINYL SDG HSE #47 LOT 25X146.2 SCHUBERT ST (.083 A)

PARTIAL CLAIM...............$19,778.48

43. HELT DANIEL & HELT DENISE - 1260047C00244 00. 39 SCHUBERT ST, ANNA KOHLER PLAN 30 LOT 25XAVG188.03 SCHUBERT S T MUTZIG PLAN 31 LOT 25XAVG180.05 MUTZIG PRIVATE RD 1 1/2 STY INS BRK HSE PARTIAL CLAIM...............$20,690.68

44. 98 WATSON BOULEVARD & LAND TRUST - 1260077B00212 00. 98 WATSON BLVD, WATSON PL PLAN PT 407 LOT 24.77XAVG120.38X33.20 RR WATSON BLVD 2 STY BRK & SHG HSE & INT GAR 98

PARTIAL CLAIM...............$25,842.05

45. TARANTINO MARK EDWARD - 1260116J00284 00. 216 VENTURE ST, STEWART PLAN 16 LOT 25X120 VENTURE TO CHERRYHIL L 2 STY BRK V HSE-INT GAR #216

PARTIAL CLAIM...............$23,219.61

Twenty-Eighth Ward

46. MUDRYK MICHAEL

Twenty-Ninth

NOTICE

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA

Notice is hereby given to the following persons, their heirs, successors or assigns, and to all persons whatsoever, that the City of Pittsburgh, by John Miller, Assistant City Solicitor, 328 City County Building has petitioned the Court of Orders quieting title to the following tax acquired real estate, pursuant to Act No. 171, approved December 11, 1984.

GD –2023-009472

CITY OF PITTSBURGH Vs Lawrence Ward; their heirs, successors, assigns and respondents.25th Ward, Pittsburgh. 86. Lot 22X 101 Morrison St f/k/a Morrison Ave Block & Lot 22-D-73. All roads public and private affecting the land and the rights of others therein. Easements or servitudes which are unrecorded or are apparent from an inspection of the premises and any variation in location or dimensions. Conflict with lines of adjoining property, encroachments, projections or other matters which might be disclosed by and accurate survey of the premises. Terms and conditions of any unrecorded lease or tights of the parties in possession of any portion of the land. Subject to oil and gas leases, rights of way, building restrictions, restrictive covenants, etc. as may be contained in proper instruments of record and /or recorded plan.

SUBJECT TO ALL ADDITIONAL EASEMENTS, ENCROACHMENTS, AGREEMENTS, ETC. OF RECORD.

GD –2023-009464

CITY OF PITTSBURGH Vs Roderick Q. Blackburn; their heirs, successors, assigns and respondents. 25th Ward, Pittsburgh Block & Lot 22-D-76. Lot 22 X 101- Morrison Ave. Defects, Liens, Encumbrances, adverse claims or other matters, if any, created, first appearing in the public records or attaching subsequent to the effected date hereof but prior to the date the proposed insured acquires for value of the record the estate or interest or mortgage theron covered by this commitment. Easements or servitudes with are unrecorded or are apparent from an inspection of the premises and any variation in location or dimensions conflict with lines of adjoining property, encroachments, projections or other matters which might be disclosed by an accurate survey of the premises. Terms and conditions of any unrecorded lease or tights of the parties in possession of any portion of the land. All coal and mining rights and all rights relating thereto. Subject to oil and gas leases, rights of way, building restrictions restrictive covenants, etc. as may be contained in prior instruments of recorded and/or recorded plan. All roads public and private affecting the land and the rights of others therein. SUBJECT TO ALL ADDITIONAL EASEMENTS, ENCROACHMENTS, AGREEMENTS, ETC. OF RECORD.

GD –2023-009474

CITY OF PITTSBURGH Vs

TD Bank USA, N.A.; Valerie Hairston; Wilbert Carter; GLS Capital; Allegheny County Economic Development Dept RAAC Liens; Their heirs, successors, assigns and respondents. 25th Ward, Pittsburgh. 913 Morrison Avenue. William Robinson Executors Plan 84. Lot 22x101 Morrison Avenue, 1 Story frame & aluminum siding house-913. Block & Lot 22-D-75. All roads public and private affecting the land and the rights of others therein. Subject to all additional easements, encroachments, agreements, etc. of record. Under and subject or reservations, restrictions, easements and rights of way recorded in prior instruments of record. Defects, liens, encumbrances, adverse claims or other mattes, if any, created, first appearing in the public records at attaching subsequent to the effective date hereof but proper to the date the proposed insured acquires for value of the record the estate or interest or mortgage thereon covered by this commitment. Easements or servitudes which might be disclosed by an accurate survey of the premises. Terms and conditions of any unrecorded lease or rights of the parties in possession of any portion of the land. Possible additional assessments for taxes for new construction or for any major improvement pursuant to provisions of acts of assembly relating thereto , which are not yet do or payable. Any reservations, restrictions, limitations, conditions or agreements set forth in the instrument by which title is bested in the insured owner. All coal and mining rights and all rights relating thereto. Subject to oil and gas leases, rights of way, building restrictions, restrictive covenants, ect. As may be contained in prior instruments of record and/ or recorded plan. SUBJECT TO ALL ADDITIONAL EASEMENTS, ENCROACHMENTS, AGREEMENTS, ETC. OF RECORD.

GD –2023-009462

CITY OF PITTSBURGH Vs

The Estate of Victor Najanick; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Inheritance Tax Division; Department of Revenue; PA Attorney General; Michael J. Henny, Esquire; William W. Najanick, Beneficiary; Caulis Negris; their heirs, successors, assigns and respondents 27th Ward, Pittsburgh. Block & Lot 45-E-322. 1234 Woodland Ave. Fleming Plan Pt 16 Lot 16.58 X 103.53 Woodland Ave. Rights and privileges as set forth in deed book volume 5659, Page109.Subject to all matters shown on the plan as recorded in the department of real estate office of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania in plan book volume 8, page285. Accuracy of area content not insured. Any variation in location of lines or dimensions of other matters. Coal and Mining rights and all rights related thereto. Notice: This document does 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 have the complete legal right to remove all of such coal and, in that connection, damage may result to the surface of the land and any house, building or other structure on or in such land, The inclusion of this notice does not enlarge, restart or modify any legal rights or estates otherwise created, transferred, excepted or reserved by this instrument. (see 52 P.A.1551) Oil, Gas or other mineral interests and all rights incident thereto now previously conveyed, transferred, leased, excepted or reserved. Title to that part of the premises lying in the bed and right of way of all roads, driveways and alleyways is subject to public and private rights therein. All roads public and private affecting the land and the rights of others therein.

SUBJECT TO ALL ADDITIONAL EASEMENTS, ENCROACHMENTS, AGREEMENTS, ETC. OF RECORD.

GD –2023-008485

CITY OF PITTSBURGH Vs Carl Scherrah; Linda Ryan Scherrah; their heirs, successors, assigns and respondents . 14th Ward, Pittsburgh.714 Naylor St Louis Berkowitz Plan 46 Lot 24 X 80 Naylor Ave. Block & Lot 54-F-146. SUBJECT TO ALL MATTERS shown on the Plan as recorded in the Recorder’s Office of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in Plan Book Volume 4, Page 219. Excepting and reserving that portion of the premises lying in and along the roadbed(s); Subject to public and private rights thereon. SUBJECT TO ALL ADDITIONAL EASEMENTS, ENCROACHMENTS, AGREEMENTS, ETC. OF RECORD.

GD –2023-009475

CITY OF PITTSBURGH Vs Raymond Kelly; Virginia Kelly; Allegheny County – Criminal Division; their heirs, successors, assigns and respondents. 1st Ward, Pittsburgh. Tustin St F/K/A 2003 Tustin St. Lot 12.12X42.873 Tustin St. Block and Lot11-K-140-6. Convents, Conditions, Restrictions and easements which may encumber title. Subject to all matters shown on the plan as recorded in the recorder’s office of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania in plan book vol. 8 page 265. Certificate evidencing zoning classification and compliance must be obtained in accordance with Act of July 27, 1955, P/:/ 288 as amended and ordinance no. 24 of 1982 of the city of Pittsburgh, which certificate must be produced at the closing by or on behalf of the seller for delivery to the buyer. Ordinance No. 922.03F of the Pittsburgh Zoning Code required that the purchaser in a sale of real estate or the borrower in refinance apply for a certificate of zoning classification and legality of use. Possible liability for cost overrun in remediation under city of Pittsburgh ordinance 2006-3. Right of access by PWSA on premises in question.

SUBJECT TO ALL ADDITIONAL EASEMENTS, ENCROACHMENTS, AGREEMENTS, ETC. OF RECORD.

GD –2023-009477

CITY OF PITTSBURGH Vs

Wanda Antoinette Yost; Caulis Negris, LLC; Finance America Consumer Discount Company; Allegheny County Economic Development – RACC Liens; GLS Capital Inc.; National Tax Funding L.P.; their heirs, successors, assigns and respondents. 21st Ward, Pittsburgh. 1204 Warlo Street. Lot 24x68 Warlo Street. Block and Lot 22-L-276. SUBJECT TO ALL ADDITIONAL EASEMENTS, ENCROACHMENTS, AGREEMENTS, ETC. OF RECORD

GD –2023-009561

CITY OF PITTSBURGH Vs

Alexandra Mercurio; Ford Consumer Discount Company; Associates Home Equity Consumer Discount Company, Inc.; New Jersey Mortgage and Investments Corp.; CitiFinancial Mortgage Company; their heirs, successors, assigns and respondents. 20th ward, Pittsburgh 174 Wabash Ave. (N/K/A) Mcknight St. Denny Estate Plan PTS.8-9 Lot 16.8 X 100 Wabash Ave. Block & Lot 19-S-128. All roads public and private affecting the land and the rights of others therein. Easements, or claims of easements, not shown by the public records. Accuracy of area content no insured. Easement of party walls. Easement between Alexandra Mercurio and City of Pittsburgh dated 4/25/2000 and recorded in deed book volume 10755 page 236. Restrictions and conditions as in proposal to purchase and lease agreement with William Corbett executed 12/21/2022 ( unrecorded)

WHEREUPON the Court granted a rule on the aforesaid persons, and all persons, whatsoever, to appear and show cause within thirty days from this notice why the title of the CITY OF PITTSBURGH to the aforesaid real estate should not be adjudicated and decreed valid and indefeasible as against all mortgages, ground-rents, rights, title, interest in or claims against the aforesaid real estate, and to further show cause why the sale of the said real estate should not be made free and clear of all the aforesaid claims whatsoever.

JOHN MILLER ASSISTANT CITY SOLICITOR CITY OF PITTSBURGH

BOROUGH OF EMSWORTH, ALLEGHENY COUNTY -

CONCISE FINANCIAL INFORMATION

The concise financial information is derived from the audited financial statements of the Borough of Emsworth as of and for the year ended December 31, 2022. For governmental activities, total assets of $2,574,871; total liabilities of $2,793; and total net position of $2,572,078. Total revenues were $1,738,910; total expenditures were $1,080,699 and the change in the total net position for the year ended December 31, 2022, was $658,211. For business-type activities, total assets of $224,781; total liabilities of $-0- and total net position of $224,781. Total revenues were $811,284; total expenditures were $719,128 and the change in total net position for the year ended December 31, 2022, was $92,156.

Full copies of the annual financial reporting information may be examined at the Borough’s office.

HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH

PUBLIC NOTICE OF FY 2024

MOVING TO WORK ANNUAL PLAN

The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) , in accordance with federal law and regulation, is publishing its FY 2024 Moving to Work (MTW) Annual Plan for review and comment. The FY 2024 MTW Annual Plan is available for review and comment from Sunday, August 13, 2023 to Friday, September 15, 2023 on the HACP Web Site: www.hacp.org. Printed copies of the FY 2024 MTW Annual Plan can be obtained by contacting Amy Shaffer in the HACP Executive Office at 412456-5000 extension 3191, or Amy.Shaffer@hacp.org).

Public Hearings to receive public comments on the FY 2024 HACP MTW Annual Plan will be held on Wednesday, September 20, 2023, at 9:30 a.m., and 5:30 p.m. via Zoom. The Zoom Meeting information can be accessed at www.hacp.org

Written comments on the FY 2024 HACP MTW Annual Plan must be addressed to: “Attention: Amy Shaffer - HACP Moving to Work Annual Plan” at the HACP Executive Office, 412 Boulevard of the Allies, 7th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, or Amy.Shaffer@hacp.org, and must be received by Friday, September 15, 2023.

Once approved, the final FY 2024 HACP MTW Annual Plan will be effective on the first day of the fiscal year, January 1, 2024, or after the HACP receives approval from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Moving to Work Office, whichever occurs later.

If you are a person with disability and need an alternate means of reviewing this information, please contact the Disability Compliance Office at 412-456-5282 to discuss the options available.

CITY OF PITTSBURGH

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET ADVERTISEMENT

Separate and sealed Bid Proposals will be received electronically starting on Friday, August 18 for:

2023-IFB-228 Homewood Park Infrastructure Upgrades: Mechanical 2023-CDS-233 Auberle Third Floor Renovation (CD) 2023-IFB-147 Plumbing Services (CD)

Information on solicitations is available on the City of Pittsburgh website: http://purchasing.pittsburghpa.gov

Bid proposals are requested on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh. All bids must be submitted via the above website and all required documents must be provided or the bid proposal may be considered non-responsive.

The selected Contractor will be required to comply with all applicable

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

The selected Contractor will be required to comply with the following laws, rules and regulations:

All provisions of US Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965, as amended by US Executive Order 11375 and as supplemented in US Department of Labor Regulations (41 CFR, Part 60), and of the rules, regulations, and relevant orders of the US Secretary of Labor.

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

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

Procedures for compliance to these acts shall be as follows:

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

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

Goals for minority participation: 18%

Goals for female participation: 7%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NOTICE TO BIDDERS EMSWORTH BOROUGH ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA

Sealed Proposals will be received by the Emsworth Borough 171 Center Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15202 until 10:00 A.M. prevailing time on Tuesday, September 12, 2023 for the following Project:

EMSWORTH BOROUGH SALT STORAGE SHED

This project consists of the installation of a new pre-cast concrete salt storage building at the Public Works facility in Emsworth Borough. Work shall include the installation of a new pre-cast concrete block wall, a tensioned fabric roof system, asphalt paving inside the storage building and associated site work and grading.

Proposals shall be delivered in a sealed envelope, clearly marked on the outside with the words “EMSWORTH BOROUGH SALT STORAGE SHED”.

Prevailing wage rates are required to be paid on this Project.

There will be a Non-Mandatory Pre-bid meeting Tuesday, August 29, 2023, at the project site, at 10:00 AM. All Proposals must be in the hands of Cathy Jones, Borough Secretary, Emsworth Borough, 171 Center Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15202 on or before September 12, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. prevailing time, where the same will be opened and read publicly immediately thereafter following all current COVID-19 protocols.

Proposals shall be delivered in a sealed envelope and clearly marked on the outside with the words “EMSWORTH BOROUGH SALT STORAGE BUILDING”.

Copies of Drawings, Specifications, Instructions to Bidders, General Conditions, Forms of Proposals and Agreement are on file and open to public inspection at the office of The Gateway Engin¬eers, Inc., 100 McMorris Road, Pittsburgh, Pa 15205 where sets of said documents may be obtained upon payment of one hundred ($100.00) dollars per set. No refund will be made for the return of any documents. A ten ($10.00) dollar mailing fee will be charged for any documents delivered by U.S. mail. Electronic copies of the Contract Documents will be made available to Bidders at no charge upon request.

Proposals to receive consideration must be accompanied by a Certified Check or Bidder’s Bond from a Surety Company authorized to do business in Pennsylvania, made to the order of the Emsworth Borough, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in an amount equal to ten (10%) percent of the total amount of the Proposal as a guarantee that, if the Proposal is accepted, the successful Bidder will enter into an Agreement within fifteen (15) days after Notice of the Award of the Contract. Proposals must be made to Emsworth Borough and shall remain firm for a period of sixty (60) days. No Bidder may withdraw their Proposal during the sixty (60) day period without forfeiting the Bid guarantee.

Pennsylvania Prevailing Wages are required to be paid on this Project.

Performance and Labor and Material Payment Bonds, along with Public Liability and Property Damage Certificates of Insurance in the amounts specified, as well as Certificates of Workman’s Compensation must be filed with the executed Agreement. Bidders are advised that the Borough will award the contract to a single qualified, responsive, and responsible Bidder for each Contract based on the lowest Base Bid and any combination of Alternates chosen by the Borough at its sole discretion. However, Bidders are advised that the Borough expressly reserves the right to reject all bids, and specifically reserves the right to award to the lowest qualified, responsive, and responsible Bidder a contract for all or any portions of the work listed in the proposal, and in awarding a contract for less than the total work listed, or less than all portions of the work listed, the contract price will be determined from the total quantities for each item listed and the unit price bid for each item listed. The Borough also reserves the right to reject any or all Proposals, or any part thereof, for any reason, and reserves the right to waive any informality therein.

Cathy Jones Borough Secretary

ADVERTISEMENT

PORT AUTHORITY OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY

ADVERTISEMENT

Separate sealed Bids for the Work as listed hereinafter will be received at the Purchasing and Materials Management Department of Port Authority of Allegheny County (Authority) Procurement Office, 345 Sixth Avenue, Third Floor, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15222-2527 until 1:30 p.m. on September 18, 2023 (Please call Contract Specialist at (412) 566-5415 prior to arriving at this location. All participants IF UNVACCINATED AGAINST COVID 19 must provide and wear a mask at all times and practice minimum social distancing of 6 feet between other individuals) and will be publicly opened and read immediately thereafter at the same address. Each Bidder shall be solely responsible for assuring that its Bid is both received and time stamped by a representative of the Purchasing and Materials Management Department at or before the advertised time for submission of Bids. Bidders submitting bids via FedEx, UPS, USPS or other carrier must immediately provide tracking information to the assigned contract specialist via e-mail. Upon delivery, bidder will notify the assigned contract specialist with an e-mailed receipt. Bids received or time stamped in the Purchasing and Materials Management Department after the advertised time for the submission of Bids shall be non-responsive and therefore ineligible for Award.

WEST MIFFLIN GARAGE EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT & FACILITIES IMPROVEMENTS

CONTRACT NO. WM-23-09

The Work of this Project includes, but is not limited to the furnishing of all labor, materials, tools, equipment, and incidentals necessary for the SCOPE OF WORK HERE.

1. Replacement of an existing paint booth and the addition of a separate paint mixing booth.

2. Upgrades to the existing service lanes including overhead lube and utility reels, installation of two new cyclone vacuum systems, replacement of the two-lane bus wash system (including waster reclaim system), construction of new farebox repair shop, bathroom, and storage room.

3. Upgrades to the vehicle exhaust system and addition of a vehicle lift in the HVAC shop.

4. Exterior window and door replacements.

5. Replacement of an existing Sand Blaster in Equipment Room 141.

6. Partially remove shelving to add new 8’x8’ office in part storage (Room 148)

7. Replacement of a roll-up door at column line C-10 with an airtight coiling door to reduce fumes into room.

8. Addition of second floor windows for two existing offices (Rooms 213A and 213B)

9. Addition of a new office sized for two employees in Parts Room 211 with HVAC design.

A copy of the bid documents will be available on or after August 17, 2023 and can be obtained by accessing or creating your eBusiness account at PRT’s eBusiness website: http://ebusiness.ridePRT.org. Guides are provided for accessing, updating, or creating an eBusiness account. Please be sure to register for any/all construction categories relevant to your firm.

This Project may be funded, in part, by, and subject to certain requirements of, the County of Allegheny and/or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Authority, in compliance with 74 Pa.C.S. § 303, as may be amended, require that certified Diverse Businesses (“DBs”) have the maximum opportunity to participate in the performance of contracts and subcontracts for this Project. In this regard, all Bidders shall make good faith efforts in accordance with 74 Pa.C.S. § 303, to ensure that DBs have the maximum opportunity to compete for and perform contracts. Bidders shall also not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, disability, national origin, sexual origin, gender identity or status as a parent in the award and performance of contracts for this Project. If aid is required to involve DBs in the Work, Bidders are to contact Authority’s DBE Representative, Susanna Broadus at (412) 566-5257. The Bidder ’s attention is directed to the following contacts for Bidder’s questions:

Procedural Questions Regarding Bidding:

Contract Specialist David Hart (412) 566-5415 email: DHart@rideprt.org

All other questions relating to the Bid Documents must be submitted by mail or email to:

Port Authority of Allegheny County Procurement Office – Construction Division 345 Sixth Avenue, Third Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527

Attn: David Hart (412) 566-5415 email: DHart@rideprt.org

In addition, the Bidder ’s attention is directed to the following schedule of activities for preparation of its Bid:

9:00 AM Pre-Bid Conference

August 25, 2023 will be conducted in person or via Teams at:

Port Authority of Allegheny County Procurement Office

345 Sixth Avenue – Third Floor - Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527

Meeting ID: 263 187 017 522

Passcode: PEqZUY

Download Teams | Join on the web

Or call in (audio only)

+1 412-927-0245,,175058532# United States, Pittsburgh

Phone Conference ID: 175 058 532#

Attendance is not mandatory, but is strongly recommended

Pre-Bid Site Tour (Mandatory)

1:00 PM

August 25, 2023 will be conducted in person at:

WEST MIFFLIN DIVISION

1011 LEBANON RD WEST MIFFLIN, PA 15122

Meet in the Lobby at the address indicated above.

All participants must provide and wear safety vests and appropriate footwear - all participants - IF UNVACCINATED AGAINST COVID 19 –must provide and wear a mask at all times and practice minimum social distancing of 6 feet between other individuals. Tours will be conducted in limited group sized and in the order of which bidders sign in at the site. Attendance is mandatory.

Bids Due

1:30 PM

September 18, 2023

Port Authority of Allegheny County Procurement Office

345 Sixth Avenue – 3rd Fl – Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Please print, fill out, place in envelope with identifying label, seal and deliver by the time and date indicated.

Bids submitted via Fed Ex, UPS, USPS or other carrier are subject to the notification requirements indicated above. Please call Contract Specialist at (412) 566-5415 prior to arriving. All participants – IF UNVACCINATED AGAINST COVID 19 - must provide and wear a mask at all times and practice minimum social distancing of 6 feet between other individuals.

2:00 PM

September 18, 2023

Bid Opening will be conducted @ 2:00 pm

Via Teams or in person at the location indicated above

Meeting ID: 245 105 517 039

Passcode: 9iueAE

Download Teams | Join on the web

Or call in (audio only)

+1 412-927-0245,,8366926# United States, Pittsburgh Phone Conference ID: 836 692 6#

Authority reserves the right to reject any or all Bids

ARTICLE 2 – PRE-BID CONFERENCE

A Pre-Bid Conference may be held with prospective Bidders to review the Bid Documents and generally discuss the Project. The time and place will be specified in the Advertisement. All Bidders are encouraged to submit their questions in writing to the respective individuals listed in the Advertisement prior to the time specified in the Advertisement for the Pre-Bid Conference. A response may be provided during the Pre-Bid Conference or by Addendum thereafter.

ARTICLE 3 – PRE-BID TOUR

If a site tour is to be conducted covering the area(s) of the Work, it will be held at the date and time indicated in the Advertisement. If a prospective bidder is unable to attend the mandatory site tour, please call Contract Specialist at (412) 566-5415 to arrange an alternate time/date.

ARTICLE 4 – PUBLIC OPENING OF BIDS Bids will be publicly opened and announced at the advertised time and place set for such Bid opening.

COUNTY

PITTSBURGH REGIONAL TRANSIT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NO. 23-09

Port Authority of Allegheny County d/b/a Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) is requesting proposals for the performance of the following service (“Contract Services”):

FARE MODEL DEVELOPMENT, FARE CONSULTING, AND RELATED TITLE VI FARE EQUITY ANALYSIS SERVICES

The work under the proposed Agreement consists of a single supplier to provide PRT with Fare Model Development, Fare Consulting, and Title VI Analysis Services to support the implementation of a change to PRT’s current fare structure system. PRT is entertaining a transition to an account-based fare system. In addition to modeling various scenarios, any analysis conducted must comply with all requirements set forth by the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Title VI Requirements and Guidelines as it pertains for any PRT fare change.

A copy of the Request for Proposal (RFP) will be available on or after August 18, 2023 and can be obtained by registering at the PRT’s ebusiness website: http://ebusiness.ridePRT.org and following the directions listed on the website. Please note that Proposers must register under the ebusiness categories of PSITS – Pro Information Technology and PSSC – Pro Software Consulting for this RFP. Proposers may also register in other categories for any future RFPs issued by PRT. If you have specific questions regarding this RFP, please contact John Young at (412) 566-5216 or via email Jyoung@ridePRT.org.

An Information Meeting for interested parties will be held at 9:30 a.m., prevailing time, September 1, 2023 via Microsoft Teams video conference and/or conference call to answer any questions regarding this RFP.

To join by Microsoft Team video conference: bit.ly/InfoMtg2309

To join by Microsoft Teams call-in number: (412) 927-0245 United States, Pittsburgh (Toll) • Conference ID: 364 967 310#

Electronic proposals must be both received, and time stamped by a representative of the Procurement Department through PRT’s Ebusiness website at or before 2:00 p.m., prevailing time, September 21, 2023 at http://ebusiness.ridePRT.org. Proposals received or time stamped by a Procurement Department representative through PRT’s Ebusiness website after the advertised time for the submission of proposals shall be non-responsive and therefore ineligible for award. Each Proposer shall be solely responsible for assuring that its proposal is timely received and time stamped in accordance with the requirements herein. This Contract Services may be funded, in part, by, and subject to certain requirements of, the County of Allegheny and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT ). The proposal process and the performance of the requested services will be in accordance with guidelines and regulations of the FTA “Third Party Contracting Guidelines”, FTA Circular 4220.1F, as amended, and all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

Port Authority of Allegheny County d/b/a Pittsburgh Regional Transit, in compliance with 49 C.F.R., Part 26, as amended, implements positive affirmative action procedures to ensure that all Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (“DBEs”) have the maximum opportunity to participate in the performance of contracts and subcontracts financed, in whole or in part, with federal funds, if any, provided under or for the proposed Agreement. In this regard, all recipients or contractors shall take all necessary and reasonable steps in accordance with 49 C.F.R., Part 26, to ensure that DBEs have the maximum opportunity to compete for, and perform contracts and subcontracts for, the Contract Services.

Port Authority of Allegheny County d/b/a Pittsburgh Regional Transit, in compliance with 74 Pa.C.S. § 303, as may be amended, also requires that certified Diverse Businesses, (“DBs”) have the maximum opportunity to compete for, and perform contracts and subcontract for, the Contract Services. In this regard, all Proposers, and the Contractor, shall make good faith efforts, in accordance with 74 Pa.C.S. § 303, to ensure that DBs have the maximum opportunity to compete for, and perform contracts and subcontracts for, the Contract Services. Further, proposers and the Contractor shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, disability, national origin, sex, sexual origin, gender identity or status as a parent in the award and performance of contracts or subcontracts for these Contract Services

Port Authority of Allegheny County d/b/a Pittsburgh Regional Transit reserves the right to reject any or all proposals.

LEGAL ADVERTISING Bids/Proposals

OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENT

THE BOARD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION of the SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PITTSBURGH

Sealed proposals shall be deposited at the Administration Building, Bellefield Entrance Lobby, 341 South Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15213, on August 29, 2023, until 2:00 P.M., local prevailing time for:

Pgh. CAPA Emergency Generator Replacement General and Electrical Primes

Project Manual and Drawings will be available for purchase on August 07, 2023 , at Modern Reproductions (412-488-7700), 127 McKean Street, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15219 between 9:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. The cost of the Project Manual Documents is non-refundable. Project details and dates are described in each project manual.

THE BOARD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PITTSBURGH

Sealed bids will be received in the Bellefield Avenue Lobby, Administration Building, 341 South Bellefield Avenue until 11:00 A.M. prevailing time August 31, 2023 and will be opened at the same hour in the administration building cafeteria:

ICE MELT

General Information regarding bids may be obtained at the Purchasing Office, 341 South Bellefield Avenue, RM 349 Pittsburgh, PA 15213. The bid documents are available on the School District’s Purchasing web site at: www.pghschools.org

Click on Our Community; Bid Opportunities; Purchasing - under Quick Links.

The Board of Public Education reserves the right to reject any and all bids, or select a single item from any bid.

We are an equal rights and opportunity school district

LEGAL ADVERTISING Bids/Proposals

THE BOARD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PITTSBURGH

Sealed bids will be received in the Bellefield Avenue Lobby, Administration Building, 341 South Bellefield Avenue until 11:00 A.M. prevailing time August 31, 2023 and will be opened at the same hour in the administration building cafeteria:

TEACHER LEADER BOOKS

General Information regarding bids may be obtained at the Purchasing Office, 341 South Bellefield Avenue, RM 349 Pittsburgh, PA 15213. The bid documents are available on the School District’s Purchasing web site at: www.pghschools.org Click on Our Community; Bid Opportunities; Purchasing - under Quick Links.

The Board of Public Education reserves the right to reject any and all bids, or select a single item from any bid.

We are an equal rights and opportunity school district

REQUEST FOR BIDS

AUTO INSURANCE

The Westmoreland County Housing Authority (WCHA ) is requesting bids for auto insurance for its fleet of vehicles.

Sealed bids will be received by Michael L. Washowich, Executive Director, until Friday, September 15, 2023, at 10:00 A.M. (Eastern Standard Time) at the office of the Westmoreland County Housing Authority, 167 South Greengate Road, Greensburg, PA 15601, at which time they will be opened publicly.

Interested respondents can obtain hard copy bid documents from the WCHA administration office at the address listed above. Electronic bid documents can be obtained by emailing Rachel Fritz at rachelf@wchaonline.com.

Perspective bidders shall register with WCHA via email in accordance with the bid requirements.

INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that specifications and proposal forms for furnishing all labor and materials and professional consulting and/ or construction services for the following project(s) entitled:

• 641-643 Braddock Avenue Braddock, PA 15104

Bid documents may be obtained from Sota Construction Services, Inc. by contacting TJ Toomey at ttoomey@sotaconstruction.com. You can also call 412-925-0040 (cell) beginning August 16th.

ALL BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED until 1:00 PM on September 7th, 2023 at the offices of Sota Construction Services. Bids will be publicly opened at 1:00 PM immediately following at the Sota Construction Services, Inc. offices at 80 Union Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15202. Bids must be submitted as your company’s standard proposals and be enclosed in a sealed envelope, bearing the name and address of the bidder on the outside, addressed to Sota Construction Services, Inc. and marked with the project name. There will be a site walk thru on August 24th at 10:00 AM to review the existing building conditions.

Bids for the following scopes will accepted:

• SELECTIVE AND STRUCTURAL

DEMOLITION

• BUILDING STRUCTURAL

CONCRETE

• MASONRY

• STRUCTURAL & MISCELLANEOUS

STEEL

• CARPENTRY – ROUGH & FINISH

• THERMAL PROTECTION –WATERPROOFING / EPDM

ROOFING

• OPENINGS – DOORS/ WINDOWS/ STOREFRONT

• FINISHES – DRYWALL/ ACOUSTICAL

CEILINGS/ FLOORING/ PAINTING

• SPECIALTY ITEMS

• FURNISHINGS – CASEWORK AND WINDOW BLINDS

• FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM

• PLUMBING

• HVAC SYSTEMS

• ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS

• SITE WORK/ SITE UTILITIES / SITE EXCAVATION

• SITE IMPROVEMENTS – PAVING/ FENCING/ RETAINING WALLS

“Compliance is required with the Davis-Bacon Act and other Federal Labor Standard Provisions; Title VI and other applicable provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Department of Labor Equal Opportunity Clause (41 CFR 60 – 1.4); Section 109 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974; Executive Order 11625 (Utilization of Minority Business Enterprise); Executive Order 12138 (Utilization of Female Business Enterprise); in compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; the Allegheny County MBE/WBE Program enacted July, 1981, which sets forth goals of 13 percent Minority and 2 percent Female Business Enterprise; and the Allegheny County Ordinance #6867-12, setting forth goals of 5 percent Veteran-Owned Small Businesses. Further, notice is hereby given that this is a Section 3 Project under the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, (as amended) and must to the greatest extent feasible, utilize lower income residents for employment and training opportunities and Section 3 Business concerns and all contracts and subcontracts for this project shall contain the “Section 3 Clause” as set forth in 24 CFR, Part 135.38.

Moreover, compliance is required by the prime contractor and all subcontractors with the Federal General Conditions included in the contract documents between ACED and the operating agency. These Federal General Conditions are to be incorporated by reference into all construction contracts between operating agency and contractor, contractor and subcontractor(s), and subcontractor(s) and lower tiered subcontractor(s).”

Compliance with Davis – Bacon Prevailing Wages and PA RACP Key Compliance Guidelines are required.

If there are additional questions, please contact TJ Toomey, Estimating and Preconstruction, at Sota Construction Services, Inc.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES Help Wanted

UI ENGINEER II

American Eagle Outfitters headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, seeks a UI Engineer II. This is a fully remote position, and the employee can work from anywhere in the United States. Will be responsible for developing and implementing complex UI solutions for our web applications, ensuring a seamless user experience. Send CV with cover letter, references, and salary requirements to Jobsaeoinc@ae.com.

SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST –SUPPLY CHAIN

American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.’s Pittsburgh, PA, office seeks a Senior Data Scientist – Supply Chain to work as a roving employee from our offices in Pittsburgh, PA, as well as various unanticipated employer, client, and other locations. Duties include: (i) performing data analysis to identify key insights to drive foundational changes within the supply chain and optimize process/outputs/results; (ii) applying statistical, simulation, experimental design and operations research modeling skills to build efficient algorithms that impacts the bottom-line. This position is for a roving employee who will work in Pittsburgh, PA, and at various unanticipated locations throughout the United States. Send CV with cover letter, references, and salary requirements to Jobsaeoinc@ae.com

The Sports & Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County and the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh will receive proposals for Parking Management Services of approximately 1,857 surface parking spaces. The Request for Proposals may be obtained after the date identified below from Mr. Doug Straley - E-mail: dstraley@pgh-sea.com, Telephone: (412) 393-0207 RFP Available: Thursday, August 17, 2023 Date/Time/Location for

for Submission of

August 31, 2023 at 2:00pm

& Exhibition Authority Office Attn: Doug Straley, Project Executive 171 10th Street, 2nd Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222 dstraley@pgh-sea.com

ALLEGHENY COUNTY SANITARY AUTHORITY LEGAL NOTICE CONTRACT NO. 1792

ELEVATOR MAINTENANCE SERVICE Sealed Bids for Contract No. 1792 – ELEVATOR MAINTENANCE SERVICE shall be received at the Engineering Department office of the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority, 3300 Preble Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15233, until 11:00 A.M., Prevailing

Time, Tuesday, September 19, 2023 and then shall be publicly opened and read. A link will be required to access The Microsoft Teams Video Conference for the Bid Opening. If interested in obtaining a link to the Bid Opening, contact Kathleen P. Uniatowski via email at Kathleen.uniatowski@alcosan.org.

A Non-Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting will be held in person & Live on Microsoft Teams at the Authority in Room 119, 1st Floor of the O&M Building on Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 10:00 A.M., Prevailing

Time. If unable to attend in person, a link to the Microsoft Teams Meeting can be obtained by contacting Kathleen P. Uniatowski via email at kathleen.uniatowski@alcosan.org.

ALCOSAN encourages businesses owned and operated by minorities and women to submit bids on Authority Contracts or to participate as subcontractors or suppliers to successful Bidders. Successful Bidders are to use minority and women’s businesses to the fullest extent possible. Contract Documents will be available via email or may be examined at the Engineering office of the Authority. Bid Security in the Amount of $2,000.00 is required. Contract documents must be obtained directly from ALCOSAN to qualify as an eligible bidder.

Any questions regarding the Technical Specifications should be directed to Benjamin Heilman, ALCOSAN, via email at Benjamin.heilman@alcosan.org.

Any questions regarding the Contract Bidding Documents should be directed to Kathleen P. Uniatowski, ALCOSAN, via email at contract.clerks@alcosan.org.

The Authority reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any informality in any bid and to accept any bid should it be deemed in the interest of the Authority to do so.

ALLEGHENY COUNTY SANITARY AUTHORITY

Benjamin J. Heilman Contract Supervisor

CiberSQL, headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, has work-from-home Systems Analyst position (w/ability to telecommute w/ approp. telecommuting sys.) responsible for designing/dvlpng sftwr apps & anlyzng end-user needs in support of clients’ bus. & info. design & tchnlgy needs. Send resume & cvr ltr to hr@cibersql.com

*EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY*

GATEWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Monroeville, PA is accepting applications for Director of Pupil Services. Deadline for applications is August 31, 2023. For a complete job description, and how to apply, please visit our website at www.gatewayk12.org -> Human Resources/Personnel Tab -> Employment Opportunities.

Gateway School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

FULL STACK DEVELOPER

Carnegie Mellon University seeks a Full Stack Developer in Pittsburgh, PA responsible for designing, developing, testing & maintaining complex system or application programs. Apply at https://www.cmu.edu/jobs.

PART-TIME LIBRARY ASSISTANT Bayne Library in Bellevue is hiring someone to provide programming for teens and to staff our circulation desk. The hours are Tues./Wed.

3 p.m.-7 p.m. and Sat. 10 a.m.-

5 p.m. Visit baynelibrary.org to learn more.

ENTRY LEVEL POLICE OFFICER

The City of Altoona is now accepting applications for Entry Level Police Officers. Information and applications are available online at www.altoonapa.gov and in the Human Resources Department of City Hall. Applications and applicable supporting documentation must be submitted to the Human Resources Department by Noon on Friday, September 22, 2023.

Human Resources Department 1301 12th Street, Suite 400 Altoona, PA 16601

The City of Altoona is an Equal Opportunity Employer

AVALON BOROUGH POLICE CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION NOTICE

Applications are currently being accepted for the position of full-time Police Officer. The starting base salary for a full-time Police Officer is $75,285.45 annually.

Applications are available at the Avalon Borough Police Department located in the rear of the Avalon Borough Building 640 California Avenue, Avalon, PA, 15202-2499 Monday thru Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. or the Borough Administration Office at the main entrance, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Call 412-761-0353 with further questions.

COMPLETED APPLICATIONS MUST BE RETURNED TO THE AVALON BOROUGH ADMINSTRATION OFFICE BY 4:00 P.M., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023.

Applicant must complete a mandatory written examination and physical agility test, oral examination, background check, credit check, medical and psychological examinations.

• Act 120 Certification is required

• Must be a high school graduate

• Must possess a valid driver’ license

• Must be age 21+ upon hire

A $25.00 non-refundable processing fee will be assessed at time of application is required. Cash or money order only.

AVALON BOROUGH CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

SENIOR FLEET MAINTENANCE COORDINATOR

Pittsburgh Regional Transit is seeking a Senior Fleet Maintenance Coordinator to under the general directions of the Manager of Bus Maintenance Support, evaluates, analyzes, and provides heavy vehiclerelated expertise and technical guidance to management on PRT’s revenue vehicle fleet’s maintenance and repair processes. Coordinates and oversees various maintenance and repair projects to ensure the continuous operation and reliable performance of the fleet. Collaborates with Bus Maintenance Support staff and with other departments and divisions to manage work priorities, develop job plans, identify the necessary resources (parts, materials, supplies, skillset, and personnel) to complete routine work, campaigns, and other related work. Develops, implements, and monitors a metrics program to measure division efficiency and labor utilization and to produce work performance reports for management information and use. Assumes responsibility for covering a part of the work assignments of co-workers during short absences as assigned.

Essential Functions:

•Develops and manages programs and campaigns to support vehicle maintenance and related initiatives. This will include research, preparation and creation or adjustments of maintenance plans, schedules, procedures, or technical instructional documents. Conducts random and scheduled audits of maintenance practices and procedures to ensure compliance with preventive maintenance checklists and other standardized procedures.

• Performs complex internal investigations of maintenance practices and issues. Reviews and analyzes Port Authority bus maintenance issues as per the direction of the Manager of Bus Maintenance Support. Assist in the Investigations of maintenance incidents, such as accidents, fires, or other unforeseen failures to determine and report upon root cause and corrective action needed.

• Continually improving data management and job reporting systems to increase effectiveness and efficiency. Job requirements include:

• High School Diploma or equivalent, supplemented by vocational or technical training in heavy vehicle maintenance and repair Demonstrated experience may be substituted for education on a year-for-year basis.

• Minimum of two (2) years in either a management or a senior role position in charge of work or service delegation.

• Minimum of five (5) years of heavy vehicle maintenance and repair experience, including two (2) years of prior experience planning and scheduling maintenance and repair work. A combination of education and specialized planning and scheduling experience may substitute for the two years of prior experience.

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

• Professional and effective communication skills.

• Ability to function as a team player and work harmoniously with other people.

• Valid driver’s license. Class C.

• Obtain and maintain a valid Commercial Driver’s License, Class B with passenger endorsement and have the air brake restriction removed within 90 days.

• This is a safety sensitive position subject to all testing provisions under Drug and Alcohol Policy, including random drug and alcohol testing. The person selected will be required to be tested prior to being awarded the job.

Preferred attributes:

• BA/BS Degree in Business or directly related field from an accredited school.

• Four (4) years supervisory/ management experience in bus and/or transit vehicle maintenance.

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

ASSISTANT MANAGER BUS/ LRT SYSTEMS - ELECTRONICS

Pittsburgh Regional Transit is seeking an Assistant Manager Bus/LRT Systems – Electronics to assist the manager with planning and scheduling of all Bus/LRT Systems work as it pertains to electronic/ communications equipment. Provide technical oversight and assistance that supports the repair and maintenance of all PRT’s electronic/communication assets. Assist with overseeing administrative activities, outside contracts, capital project activities as related to Bus/LRT Systems department. Work as part of a team that is dedicated to the reliability of all systems that comprise of Bus/ LRT Systems. May oversee Bus/ LRT Systems-Electronics in the absence of the Manager.

Essential Functions:

• Assist in overseeing the daily maintenance and repair of all electronic/ communications equipment in use at Port Authority; responds to routine and emergency service and repairs request in a 24/7 environment.

• Directly supervises the department’s First Level Supervisors and has responsibility for all hourly personnel in the departments. Assists in scheduling after hours maintenance to allow for the most efficient use of manpower; assists in approving and tracking all overtime for the department. Provides technical assistance/ instructions as required, maintains employee records for supervisors, provides constructive feedback on performance to supervisors and initiates in enforcing PRT’s policies and procedures including the performance code.

• Provide technical support for RTO/BTO, Customer Service, Radio Maintainers, and Information Technology departments as needed. Job requirements include:

• Associates Degree in Electronic/ Communication Engineering Technology; Electrical/Electronic/Communication Engineering or directly related field. Directly related work experience may substitute for education on a year for year basis.

• Minimum of three (3) years’ experience in the maintenance and support of communications electronic equipment to component level troubleshooting and replacement

• Minimum of three (3) years supervisory experience with verifiable leadership roles.

• General Radio Operators License or previous FCC equivalent.

• Valid PA Driver’s license.

• Good oral and written communication skills.

• Relevant computer systems knowledge.

• Must be available to respond to emergency service needs on a 24 hour 7 day basis.

Preferred attributes:

• BS Degree in Electronics/Electrical Engineering Technology.

• Recent experience in an organization that supports maintenance and repairs of electronic systems on a 24/7/365 basis. Additional supervisory experience in a comparable technical position.

• Experience in digital microwave, DS1 carrier, Carrier Grade Ethernet, analog and digital telephony, Land Mobile Radio applications.

• Experience in use of advanced test equipment such as RF and Audio Spectrum Analyzers, RF Communications Systems Analyzers, copper-optical Time Domain Reflectometers.

• Experience with Programmable Logic Controllers, Remote Terminal Units, Distributed I/O Systems, and automation systems.

• Experience with voice/data networking and structured cabling systems.

• Experience in Information Technology fundamentals.

• Experience with fiber optic infrastructure installation, troubleshooting and maintenance.

• Competent in one or more high level programming languages: VB, VBA ,C, C++, C#

TRANSIT POLICE OFFICER

Pittsburgh Regional Transit (Port Authority of Allegheny County Police Department) is seeking full-time Transit Police Officers. A Transit Police Officer is responsible for ensuring the safety of Port Authority customers, staff, and property throughout the areas it serves. Officers must enforce all local, state, and federal laws on and around our transit system. Our Police Department offers potential career opportunities with specialty units that include, investigations, K-9, video forensics and crash reconstruction. Leadership roles such as Sergeant and Lieutenant are promoted from within the department.

Police Officer applicant testing is one three-hour session, the written police officer exam (POST) and the fitness exam will be administered on the same day. Testing dates: Monday, September 18, 2023, at 12:00 PM, or Tuesday, September 19, 2023, at 8:00 AM Transit Police Officer wage progression is as follows: year one - $57,484 (75% of base rate); year two$65,148 (85% of base rate); year three - $76,645 (base rate). A Master Patrol wage premium of 3% above base rate is available after nine years as a Transit Police Officer. Job requirements include:

• Minimum age 21

• High School Diploma or GED.

• Valid PA Driver’s License.

• Current Act 120 certification or candidate must successfully pass the Act 120 certification test prior to employment.

• Successful completion of administered written police officer exam.

• Successful completion of administered fitness exam.

• Basic clerical skills.

• Ability to observe and analyze situations objectively and respond appropriately.

• Ability to handle emotionally charged situations.

• Ability to act quickly and calmly in emergency situations.

• Professional and effective communication skills to include:

• Ability to communicate orally and in writing in a clear and concise manner.

• Ability to understand and execute oral and written instructions.

• Successfully complete/maintain the following required training:

• Yearly firearm qualifications with a department-authorized firearm.

• Maintain Basic First Aid and CPR/ AED Certification.

• Yearly mandatory in-service training.

• Job-specific training, as required.

• Ability to work various shifts, pass days, weekends/holidays, as required.

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

DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PLANNING

Pittsburgh Regional Transit is seeking a Director of Strategic Planning to be responsible for coordinating activities across the Agency supporting the accomplishment of departmental elements of the Strategic Plan of the Port Authority of Allegheny County d/b/a Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT). This role is responsible for monitoring and analyzing organizational performance, promoting the Strategic Plan, and encouraging the use of data for management decision making. They will research and analyze tasks to support planning activities including the evaluation of organizational strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Monitor emerging trends in PRT’s industry, region, and service area to aid in internal business process improvement. Develop innovative ideas and institutional processes to help the Strategic Plan succeed. This position reports to the Deputy Chief of Strategic Planning at the PRT.

Essential Functions:

• Management and continuous refinement of the agency’s Strategic Plan, including the identification of clear and achievable near and long-term efforts that can be incorporated and reflected in divisions’ goals and workplans.

• Facilitate meetings and relationships across the agency to ensure necessary coordination to accomplish strategies within the Strategic Plan.

• Conduct monthly meetings with the Strategic Plan ambassadors.

• Develop key performance metrics related to effective management, implementation, and reporting of initiatives.

Job requirements include:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, planning, public administration, organizational leadership, or a related field is required.

• Minimum of five (5) years of professional experience leading key business activities related to: strategy improvements, risk assessment and mitigation, project management, contract administration, budgeting, or scheduling.

• Ability to work well without close supervision and demonstrate initiative.

• Knowledge of performance management; methods and techniques of tracking, recording, and presenting statistical data.

• Ability to establish cooperative relations with staff, contractors, consultants, technical committees, community and industry organizations, representatives of federal, state, regional, and city agencies and the public.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills; strong listening skills.

• Strong presentation skills and the ability to communicate with groups.

• Exceptional strategizing, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities.

Preferred attributes:

• Knowledge of and experience with PowerBI or other similar data tracking and analyzing tools

• Supervisory experience with emphasis on transit operations.

ASSISTANT MANAGER OF MAINTENANCE AND SERVICE

Pittsburgh Regional Transit is seeking an Assistant Manager of Maintenance and Service to work on off shifts to assist in managing, coordinating, and monitoring fleet maintenance, service delivery and administration activities to ensure safe and reliable fleet operations for Port Authority of Allegheny County d/b/a Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT). To assist with the development and implementation of maintenance work standards. To coordinate programs designed to improve processes and systems within transit operations.

Essential Functions:

• May maintain a revenue service vehicle or equipment used in revenue service.

• Supervises and coordinates the daily activities of supervisors and administrative support employees involved in maintaining, repairing, and servicing the fleet. Supervises and coordinates the daily activities of employees involved with fleet maintenance and repair, fleet interior and exterior cleaning, assignment of fleet to routes, and maintenance of auxiliary headsigns.

• Assists in implementing and monitoring standardized administrative programs and maintenance activities and procedures. Works with Manager of Maintenance & Service to develop and implement service goals and maintenance performance standards in support of PRT’s goals, objectives, and mission.

• Prepares and analyzes maintenance performance indicators to identify deficiencies; makes recommendations to improve workflow and labor utilization. Evaluates operational delays and organizational structure to determine improved efficiencies. Job requirements include:

• High School Diploma or GED.

• Associate degree in Transportation, Business, Vehicle Maintenance or directly related field from an accredited school. Fleet maintenance experience may be substituted for education on a year-for-year basis.

• Minimum of two (2) years supervisory experience.

• Minimum of three (3) years of increasingly responsible vehicle maintenance experience.

• Demonstrated ability in the use of Windows.

• Effective and professional communication skills.

• Ability to work all shifts as assigned by the Manager of Maintenance and Service.

• Valid PA Driver’s License.

Preferred attributes:

• BA/BS Degree in Business or related field from an accredited school.

• Valid Commercial Driver’s License (Class B), with P endorsement.

• Experience in statistical process control.

• Participative leadership style.

• Demonstrated ability in the use of Microsoft Word and Access.

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Interested candidates should forward a cover letter (with salary requirements) and resume to:

Taylor McBride

Employment Department

345 Sixth Avenue, 3rd Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527

TMcBride@RidePRT.org EOE

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Interested candidates should forward a cover letter (with salary requirements) and resume to:

Missy Ramsey Employment Department 345 Sixth Avenue, 3rd Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527 MRamsey@RidePRT.org EOE

Pittsburgh Regional Transit offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision. Transit Police Officers are eligible for a defined contribution plan which consists of two components: a 401(a) Money Purchase Plan and a 457(b) Deferred Compensation Plan. Tuition Reimbursement, and comprehensive training opportunities and incentives are also available. Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume https://careers.portauthority.org/ or directly to:

Amy Giammanco

Pittsburgh Regional TransitEmployment Department 345 Sixth Avenue, 3rd Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527 agiammanco@rideprt.org EOE

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Interested candidates should forward a cover letter (with salary requirements) and resume to:

Missy Ramsey Employment Department 345 Sixth Avenue, 3rd Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527 MRamsey@RidePRT.org EOE

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Interested candidates should forward a cover letter (with salary requirements) and resume to:

Missy Ramsey Employment Department 345 Sixth Avenue, 3rd Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527

MRamsey@RidePRT.org

EOE

WELCOME HOME, DAMAR

BEFORE HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE BUFFALO BILLS, Damar Hamlin was the standout football player in “The Rox,” McKees Rocks, then at Central Catholic High School, and then at Pitt. The Steelers hosted the Buffalo Bills at Acrisure Stadium on Saturday, Aug. 19, a 27-15 Steelers win. But it was also a time to celebrate Hamlin, who played in his second NFL game since suffering cardiac arrest in a regular season game to begin the 2023 calendar year. Doctors have cleared Hamlin to resume playing activities as normal.

THE ‘JERRY MAGUIRE’ SYNDROME

How about ‘showing the money’ to those in the past, like Terrelle Pryor?

Remember the movie, “Jerry MaGuire”? “Jerry Maguire” was a 1996 film that was inspired by former super sports agent Leigh Steinberg. The movie was very popular and had almost everyone running around saying, “Show me the money.” It was supposed to depict an agent representing an amateur athlete and helping that athlete get the most money for his talent. The standing rule for well over a century has been that amateur athletes were not permitted to be paid or compensated to perform and if they were, that voided their status as an amateur. There have been hundreds of athletes that have been stripped of their amateur status for a small and inconsequential amount of compensation. Let’s hit rewind and look at the career of the legendary athlete, Jim Thorpe.

According to www. distractify.com, after the 1912 Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) made the decision to strip Jim of his medals, claiming that he had violated the amateurism rules that existed around the games at that time. The decision came down in 1913 and was based on two seasons of semi-professional baseball that Jim had played prior to competing in the Olympics. At the time, the Olympics had rules in place that didn’t permit non-amateurs to compete in the Olympics. If you were at some point paid for your sport, you were no longer allowed to compete. Those rules were eventually scrapped, and now, a wide array of professional athletes compete in the Olympic Games

in everything from basketball to track and field.

Jim Thorpe’s medals weren’t fully restored until 2022. In 1983, the IOC ruled that Thorpe’s medals could be restored after stating that the initial ruling had fallen outside of the 30day window when these decisions were supposed to be made. The restoration came 30 years after Thorpe’s death, and it only listed him as a co-victor in both events. It wasn’t until 2022 that the IOC fully restored Thorpe as the sole champion in both the decathlon and pentathlon, distractify.com reported.

So, Thorpe’s medals were finally restored more than 110 years later in 2022.

Let’s hit fast forward and have a look-see regarding a more recent example of an athlete that was penalized under what I define as “the indentured servant rule.”

Jennifer Roback posted a story on July 28, 2022, on the-sun.com titled: “THE Ohio State tattoo scandal dates back to December 2010.”

Ms. Roback wrote: “The former star quarterback for the Ohio State Buckeyes, Terrelle Pryor, and four other members were suspended by the NCAA back in 2010 following a trip to a Columbus tattoo parlor.

Former Ohio State football stars DeVier Posey, Mike Adams, Boom Herron, Terrelle Pryor, and Solomon Thomas, are known as the ‘Tattoo Five.’”

In 2010, Pryor along with DeVier Posey, Mike Adam, Boom Herron, and Solomon Thomas were all involved in what is known as the Tattoogate scandal.

The former Buckeyes were suspended for the first five games of the 2010-11 season after receiving cash and discounted tattoos for memorabilia from the owner of a local tattoo

parlor, Edward Rife.

As a result of the scandal, the players were suspended for the first five games and ordered to pay back the money they received. The team also had to vacate their wins from a 12-1 season that year including Big Ten and Sugar Bowl championships.

“The time has come, we should get our wins back, records back, and the legacy of (Jim Tressel) back and not look past it!” Pryor tweeted on July 13, 2021.

First, the unjustified “amateur competition rule” destroyed the legacy, credibility, and career of Jim Thorpe, and a tattoo and a few miscellaneous dollars shredded the reputations of five Ohio State football players and their coach, Jim Tressel. What a crock!

Now read this. Recently, si.com posted a story titled: “Pat Narduzzi Shares Thoughts on Pitt’s New NIL Deal.”

The story pointed out that, “Alliance 412, a NIL (Name, Image and Likeness) collective aligned closely with Pitt Panthers athletics, announced this week that, in addition to introducing a new marketing arm to help athletes promote themselves, the collective would sign every scholarship football player to a deal and pay each of them.”

Wait...what about the walk-ons? Are they worthless?

Also according to the si.com article, Narduzzi also took the time to praise one of the people that helped finalize the deal saying: “Chris Bickell has been unbelievable since I’ve gotten here. He’s been a great friend, huge supporter of Pitt football and he’s taking care of our guys. Can’t thank him enough for everything he does for this program. It took us a while to get to where we are, but we did it the right way or he did it the right way

and got it done. I tell our guys all the time, ‘You earn what you get.’ You put it out there on the field there every day. That’s why we put our helmets on and you go out there and you try to make the team better, the university better and make your bank account better.”

Nowadays, the word “reparations” is tossed around like dirty laundry. Narduzzi also said this: “I think it was long enough that the kids weren’t getting what they really should. I don’t know how we got there but it’s a good thing.”

Well, Mr. Narduzzi, most of us would probably bet our last chocolate cookie that if Jim Thorpe were alive, he and the Ohio State Five would also agree, it is time that they and their family, (in the case of Jim Thorpe) just want to be “shown the money.”

(Photo by Courier photographer Brian Cook Sr.)