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Vital rental assistance program riddled with problems as Pa. prepares to resume evictions
Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter. HARRISBURG — It wasn’t until the summer, after leaving his job as a drug treatment counselor, that James Pride began...
‘You’ve got to do something’: Pa. rehabs buckle, begin to close under covid-19 strain
Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLive/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter. HARRISBURG — Faced with the financial burdens of covid-19 and a lack of state support, drug and alcohol treatment facilities...
Letter to the editor: What presidential election is really about
Wake up, America — this election is not about Donald Trump or Joe Biden. It’s about democracy and Marxist socialism. Think really hard before you vote. Joseph W. Wagner Monroeville...
Letter to the editor: 3 other candidates for president
Two recent letters caught my attention. In “Biden’s climate plan wasteful spending” (Aug. 2, TribLIVE), Marcia L. Velgos claimed that President Trump has kept his promises. But the one I was really looking for was the arrest and prosecution of Hillary Clinton. The other was James A. Bernauer’s “Can’t vote...
Letter to the editor: Life should go on in Pa.
I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, spending most of my adult life in McCandless. Listening to the news out of my hometown is depressing. Gov. Tom Wolf continues to prevent any semblance of a normal life for many small business owners. Unemployment, still very high, could change if the...
Letter to the editor: Police deserve our respect
I’ve seen and heard plenty of dumb ideas in my 47 years, but one of the dumbest is the proposal by some to defund the police. I find it especially disheartening that some unions across the country are demanding that their local police forces be defunded. What am I missing...
Letter to the editor: What it means to be a Democrat
As the 2020 election approaches, before you cast your ballot, before you place a “D” or an “R” after your name, please stop and ask yourself if you actually know what it means to be a Democrat? Democrats believe that cooperation is better than conflict, unity is better than division,...
Letter to the editor: USPS critical to flow of information
The United States Post Office, first headed by Benjamin Franklin, was codified in our Constitution. It gave Congress the power to establish post offices and postal roads. The USPS was created to provide independent and unbiased delivery of information and resources. Privatization of this government agency would threaten this mission....
The Stroller, Aug. 30, 2020: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
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North Hills real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 30
Franklin Park Gary Homza sold property at 2481 A Campmeeting Road to Albert Maas and Samantha Cohen for $354,400. Todd Henderson sold property at 2539 Clubhouse Drive to Ryan Stimmel for $419,900. Matthew Baird sold property at 2555 Glenwood Drive to Albert and Lindsey Efkeman for $410,000. Kyle Hoffman sold...
Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 30
Bellevue 113 Harlem Ave LLC sold property at 92 S Bryant Ave. to Logan Michael Parsons and Olivia Horner for $178,000. Donald Dennison II sold property at 165 Spring Ave. to Kathryn Couch for $148,000. Leetsdale Rodney Morgan sold property at 6 Victory Ln to Kathleen Sudiarta for $107,500. Sewickley...
South Hills real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 30
Baldwin Borough Richard Gralish sold property at 3107 Churchview Ave. to Midatlantic Modern Homes LLC for $37,000. Audrey Belfiore sold property at 5384 Hacienda Drive to Christopher and Rachel Hearn for $164,000. Estate of Harold Ryan sold property at 3313 Hazelhurst Ave. to Andrew Busch and Megan Atherton for $73,000....
Pine, Richland real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 30
Pine Dan Ryan Bldrs Mid Atlantic LLC sold property at 156 Alder Drive to Brian Justin and Nicole Kathleen Kelm for $548,519. Riviera Land Partners L.P. sold property at 131 Birch Drive to Armando Roberto and Lina Pazos for $171,700. Andrew Maher sold property at 203 Gander Drive to Stephen...
Bridgeville, Carnegie area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 30
Bridgeville Anthony Mastrean sold property at 360 Murray Ave. to Stephanie Argotti for $187,000. Carnegie Orion Development RA 29 LLC sold property at 300 Broadway St. to YKR Vishnu LLC for $800,000. Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB trustee sold property at 545 Washington Ave. to Julie Zanella for $130,000. Collier...
Hampton Journal real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 30
Hampton Debra DiFatta sold property at 2410 Delo Drive to James and Dolores Hughes for $365,000. D’NA Custom Home Builders Inc. sold property at 3079 Haberlein Road to Sciulli Classic Homes & Contract Inc. for $60,000. G. Theodore Lorch Jr. sold property at 2124 Legendary Ln to Shophouse Home LLC...
Shaler real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 30
Millvale Stacy Chmielewski sold property at 1127 North Ave. to Nicholas Dodd and Serena Virgi for $157,000. Geralt Garforth sold property at 29 Sedgwick St. to Jacquelynn Michalik for $265,000. Reserve Spring Garden Village Housing L.P. sold property at Williams Road to Lorigan LLC for $170,000. Shaler Estate of Melvin...
Eastern area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 30
Churchill Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency sold property at 2400 Greensburg Pike to Ahmed and Arafat Arafat for $82,500. Estate of Marilyn Fredland Lampl sold property at 149 Thornberry Drive to William Fuller Jr. and Cherylie A Blair Fuller for $189,900. Delmont Ronald Glover sold property at 541 Athena Drive to...
Pittsburgh Public Schools move start of school year from Aug. 31 to Sept. 8
Citing a shortage of computer equipment for students, Pittsburgh Public Schools on Saturday night announced that classes will begin on Sept. 8, rather than Monday, Aug. 31. In late July, the district decided to hold classes online for at least the first nine-week grading period. In Facebook post and in...
Editorial: Utility bills will come due
How long can you put off bad news without making it worse? Pennsylvania utility customers will have to find out eventually. In March, the Public Utility Commission put a moratorium on shutoffs due to the coronavirus pandemic. It made sense at the time. Gov. Tom Wolf was instituting lockdowns at...
Sen. Kim Ward: Now is not time for more taxes on electric, gas consumers
Without any input or authorization from elected Pennsylvania House and Senate members, Gov. Tom Wolf effectively shut down the Pennsylvania economy. His unilateral, one-size-fits-all lockdown decree has forced Pennsylvanians to suffer exponentially worse than citizens of other states that have adhered to Centers for Disease Control (CDC) protocols. As a...
Aspinwall surgeon’s life destroyed when UPMC doctors ignored stroke symptoms, lawsuit says
Michael Hromanik had a difficult childhood. His mother died of lung cancer when he was 7. His uncle moved in with him and his dad. Five years later, their house in the Renton neighborhood of Plum burned down, killing his uncle and his dog. Still, Hromanik was the first in...
Editorial: Wolf, GOP need to make election decisions
It’s time to get down to business. In two months, Pennsylvanians will cast their votes for who they want to be mayor and state representative, attorney general and congressman and the top office of all, president of the United States. It may seem like it’s been sneaking up on us,...
Nevada man 1st in U.S. to be infected with covid-19 twice, according to study
A Nevada man has become the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with coronavirus for a second time amid similar reports of reinfection out of Hong Kong. The 25-year-old from Reno initially tested positive for the virus in April. He later recovered, but was again diagnosed in...
Sounding off: Wolf and Levine should be prosecuted
Regarding the article “Brighton Rehab residents, families outraged by lax oversight during outbreak”: This was what I hope is a first on this subject. Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine seem to have ignored problems since elected and appointed. When covid-19 started and other states increased...
Letter to the editor: Democrats left her behind
I was a loyal Democrat when the party espoused the worker, the sanctity of life, patriotism and the Constitution. Regretfully, the party left me when it evolved into supporting public funded abortion, removing God from civic space, turning a blind eye to looting and rioting and disrespecting the national anthem....
