The story of this boy’s homicide, the result of 3 bullets to his back as he ran from an East Pittsburgh police officer, has pricked a bubble of simmering pain and its contents are scathing the region.
Pittsburgh Courier
Freedom of speech is too often misunderstood or undervalued, and so is freedom of the press, said The Pittsburgh Foundation’s President and CEO Maxwell King, as he opened the First Amendment for the Twenty-First Century conference yesterday. “Freedom of speech,” he said, “isn’t something that takes place in some ether over the nation. It takes place in communities. City by city, town by town.”
NEXTPittsburgh
Bill Strickland has served as an ambassador for the city, for the underprivileged, for higher education, for the arts and for workforce development. His resume is impressive. More important to him, though, are the thousands of Pittsburghers who bettered their resumes through his programs. Bill Strickland is a Pittsburgh Foundation Board member.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In 1778, a missionary preacher led the first service held in the Raccoon Presbyterian Church of Candor, a farming village in Washington County, Pa. Since then, three new churches have been built on the site of that first meeting house, the most recent constructed in 1872. The adjoining cemetery attests to the long history of the church. Weathered markers cover the hillside, and church historians tell of six unmarked graves of early settlers who were killed by Native American tribes.
Project Hunger is a station-wide initiative to bring awareness to food insecurity issues in the greater Pittsburgh area. The hour-long program focuses on what food insecurity really looks like and the army of volunteers and advocates who strive to connect wholesome food with those who need it.
WTAE-TV
June 21-22 event to focus on threats and community responses
The foundation on Thursday said its 18-member board of directors is launching the search process and expects to announce Mr. King’s successor early next year.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The community foundation’s board chair, Edith Shapira, on Thursday said that Boston-based Isaacson, Miller has been retained to manage the search, which is expected to be an eight- to nine-month process. Shapira and Walter Smith, who heads the board’s governance committee, are co-chairing the search committee.
Pittsburgh Business Times
The 18-member board of The Pittsburgh Foundation is embarking on a search for a new president, one that its chair said will be transparent, thorough and comprehensive, especially in seeking perspectives from a range of Pittsburgh stakeholders.
