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Smart-city tech eyed for other areas of Erie
WO M E N ’S H I STO RY M O N T H
By Kevin Flowers kevin.flowers@timesnews.com
Jennie Cleveland was a suffragette in Erie, as well as an educator and a photographer. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/
English teacher JoAnna Connell was a key player in the suffragist movement in Erie 100 years ago.
ERIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY]
[CONTRIBUTED PHOTO]
Additional security cameras, LED lighting and free public Wi-Fi were introduced to downtown Erie in 2018 as part of a pilot program for what’s known as smart-city technology. Mayor Joe Schember’s administration and other local officials want to bring the same technology to local neighborhoods targeted for reinvestment under the federal Opportunity Zone program. Schember, in an interview last Schember week, said his administration — working with the Erie Innovation District and others — is working to bring “secure smart city” equipment and technology over the next 12 months to the eight Opportunity Zones in the Erie region that have been designated by Gov. Tom Wolf’s office and certified by the U.S. Treasury Department. According to Schember, that would include security cameras that could read license plates and have facial-recognition capabilities; energy-efficient LED street lights; and free Wi-Fi in public spaces throughout the Opportunity Zone tracts. The intent is to make those areas safer and more attractive for investment. “It’s kind of an aggressive goal. ... But let’s get these areas done and within the next three years, I’d like to see that technology throughout the entire city,” Schember said. The city areas approved for the Opportunity Zone program are Erie’s bayfront; the former GAF Materials Corp. site on the city’s west bayfront; the area near Dobbins Landing that is planned for Scott Enterprises’ $150 million Harbor Place development; the Erie Innovation District along State Street; and the neighborhoods near UPMC Hamot and Erie Insurance.
Helen Schluraff was a suffragette and the first woman in Pennsylvania to be elected county commissioner in 1931. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO]
Suffrage centennial
Erie activists helped women secure vote Inside
By Sarah Grabski and Valerie Myers sgrabski@timesnews.com vmyers@timsenews.com
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t was one of the largest grassroots movements in American political history. One hundred years ago, in June 1919, women won the right to vote when Congress passed the 19th Amendment promising “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”
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By August 1920, the requisite 36 states, including Pennsylvania, had ratified the “Susan B. Anthony Amendment.” Millions of women See SUFFRAGE, A8
ABOVE: Women march in a Suffrage Parade held in Washington, D.C., March 3, 1913. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/LIBRARY OF CONGRESS]
About this project Our newsroom is recognizing Women's History Month with a series of articles under the Her Story Erie brand. You will find several of them in today's edition of the Erie Times-News, but the stories will continue throughout March.
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