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PublicSource community correspondent Jourdan Hicks spoke with District 9 candidate Randall Taylor about how he plans to unseat District 9 City Councilman Rev. Ricky Burgess, his campaign platform and his vision for equitable housing development in Pittsburgh. The primary election will be held May 21.
One of the more interesting races for a Pittsburgh City Council seat is happening in District 7. It's the only face-off where the Allegheny County Democratic Committee did not endorse the incumbent, in this case Councilwoman Deb Gross. Instead the committee gave the nod to challenger Deirdre Kane, a district resident who works in marketing at Highmark.
PublicSource community correspondent Jourdan Hicks spoke with District 9 candidate Randall Taylor about how he plans to unseat District 9 City Councilman Rev. Ricky Burgess, his campaign platform and his vision for equitable housing development in Pittsburgh. The primary election will be held May 21.
PublicSource community correspondent Jourdan Hicks spoke with District 9 candidate Randall Taylor about how he plans to unseat District 9 City Councilman Rev. Ricky Burgess, his campaign platform and his vision for equitable housing development in Pittsburgh. The primary election will be held May 21.
I’m juggling a lot: My own business. My three boys and what seems like all-day potty talk. Economic adversity. And recovery from cervical cancer. I consider myself a momtrepreneur. I’m a woman who is raising children while building a healthy vending machine company from scratch.
Those who don’t know me may see me merely as an intersection of many identities — a deaf, black woman. Each one of those identities on their own would commonly put me into the marginalized category. But as a mom to 10-year-old Aaron and 5-year-old Manny, I can’t rest on these statistics.
In some cases, fragments of historic sites survive based on their value as industrial heritage or their adaptability into venues for culture and tourism. In a few other cases, factory sheds are reused as office or light manufacturing spaces, if they can compete in the real estate market.But most often, it seems these relics of our industrial roots are razed.
Residents and business owners near Pittsburgh’s Hays Woods heard good news Wednesday night about one of their greatest fears.
The Future Ready Index replaced the School Performance Profiles [SPP] the department had used since 2013 to report overall annual progress and academic achievement in the state’s public schools. The SPPs are still used as a measure of effectiveness for teachers and principals.
