SHARES David Wesley lives in the Colonial Hotel, a SRO building in Gastown. He says the building’s rat problem is so bad that he never sleeps with the light off.
Photo by Jen St. Denis.
David Wesley hasn’t slept with the light off since he first moved into the Colonial Hotel three years ago. Night is when the rats come out of the walls, through the holes they’ve gnawed under the sink.
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PNC completes $11.6 billion acquisition of BBVA, announces Alabama leadership AL.com 1 hr ago William Thornton, al.com
PNC Bank has named a new leadership team for Alabama following the company’s $11.6 billion acquisition of BBVA USA, and the bank says that Birmingham will become one of the combined company’s technology development centers.
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The purchase, the second-largest U.S. banking acquisition since the 2008 financial meltdown, was announced last November. BBVA has 89 locations in Alabama, while PNC currently has more than 50 branches. As a result of the merger, PNC will rank second in Alabama in deposit market share.
BBVA USA, though based in Houston, kept a significant presence in Birmingham through its technology operations. In 2019 BBVA coordinated its Birmingham tech presence with operations in Mexico and Spain, developing cyber security and other needs for the company.
Psychiatrist Tami Benton was recently called to the emergency department about a child whose family had concerns about the girl’s suicidal threats to run into traffic and end her life.
By Sarah Viren
May 25, 2021
… J. Kehaulani Kauanui had just woken up. She was reading a story on her phone in bed, a confession written by a woman named Jessica Krug, when, quite suddenly, it yanked her into the past.
“To an escalating degree over my adult life, I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City,” wrote Krug, a history professor who had for years identified and published as a Black and Latina scholar. “I have thought about ending these lies many times over many years,” she continued, “but my cowardice was always more powerful than my ethics.”