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The $103 million urban waterway is designed to reduce combined sewage overflows into Mill Creek, as part of a federal consent decree to bring the Metropolitan Sewer District into compliance with the Clean Water Act. Before this project, there was not one drop of rain that would fall on the Lick Run watershed and make its way to the Mill Creek without first going through our combined sewer and mixing with sewage, said MSD Deputy Director MaryLynn Lodor. That doesn t happen now.
Lick Run was buried about a hundred years ago and put into a 19.5-foot-diameter pipe to flow directly into the Mill Creek. Now, the stream flows openly again in a bed of rock from homes in the neighborhood and the original stream.
New book highlights Colored Conventions and long history of Black activism
Image used on the cover of the newly edited book, “The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century.” The sketch, “1869 National Colored Convention in Washington, DC,” is by Theo R. Davis, published in Harper’s Weekly, Feb. 6, 1869. Image: Courtesy of the personal Jim Casey Collection.
New book highlights Colored Conventions and long history of Black activism
Susan Burlingame
April 26, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. It has been more than 50 years since a full-length book was written about the Colored Conventions Movement the 19th century’s longest campaign for Black civil rights. In 1969, Howard Holman Bell, a scholar of African American history, published “The Negro Convention Movement: 1830-1861,” his dissertation. Bell’s book has stood as the only full-length volume on Black conventions that were organized across North America and attended by tens of thousan
by Tyler Durden
Investment bankers at J.P. Morgan are back to flying the friendly skies.
Amid debate as to whether or not business travel would eventually pick back up to pre-Covid levels, it appears as though the largest lender in the U.S. is doing its part to help steady the air travel industry. The company already has about 30 to 40 investment bankers traveling daily, according to a new report from Bloomberg.
In-person meetings help banks win lucrative mandates and show their interest to potential clients.
Jim Casey, J.P. Morgan s co-head of global investment banking, said: “Business travel has picked up as people become more comfortable. You’re not winning new business without in-person connectivity.”