An Oakland-based artist was shot and killed this week while creating a mural advocating peace, Inside Bay Area reports.
Antonio Ramos, 27, was painting the mural in West Oakland at the Interstate 580 corridor with several others when a man who wasn’t in the group began touching the equipment. After Ramos and the man got into an argument, he shot Ramos and fled. The artist was working on the “Oakland Super Heroes Mural Project,” produced by Attitudinal Healing Connection, a nonprofit designed to fight violence in inner city areas with art and education.
Read more about this heartbreaking and senseless act of violence on Atlanta Daily World
Halloween will be extra scary this year if the U.S. government runs out of money as Treasury Secretary predicts.
The U.S. government will exhaust the extraordinary measures it has taken to avoid a debt-ceiling breach “on or about Thursday, November 5,” according to a letter sent by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to Congressional leaders.
The news sets the stage for another potentially costly battle over whether or not to raise the statutory limit on the amount of debt that can be legally borrowed by the Treasury Department. Congress and the President have tussled over the debt ceiling ever since the Republican Party took over the House of Representatives in 2010, and argued against raising the debt ceiling unless the President also agrees to commensurate spending cuts. The President (and most objective economists) take the view that the act of raising the debt ceiling is merely Congress agreeing to issue debt to pay for things that it has already decided to fund, and that using the debt ceiling as a negotiating tool is a reckless mistake.
According to BOSSIP, Black Mafia Family’s Marlon Welch is set to be released on his sentence for drug conspiracy and money laundering, and the 34-year-old said the future looks bright.
Welch told BOSSIP by phone from FCI Tuscon, a federal prison in Arizona:
“I’m in a finance course, and I had somebody do my own corporation. I’m going to be getting into real estate and finance.”
Welch allegedly used that business acumen to propel the Black Mafia Family, or BMF, into a huge drug distribution network that operated from coast to coast. As part of his guilty plea, Welch admitted he helped BMF heads Terry “Southwest T” Flenory and Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory distribute cocaine and counted millions in drug proceeds. As part of pleading guilty, he had to forfeit $270,000 to the government. Welch’s mother, Tonesa, her boyfriend Terry Flenory, and three of his cousins were also jailed for their roles in BMF.
“I’m in a finance course, and I had somebody do my own corporation. I’m going to be getting into real estate and finance.”
Welch allegedly used that business acumen to propel the Black Mafia Family, or BMF, into a huge drug distribution network that operated from coast to coast. As part of his guilty plea, Welch admitted he helped BMF heads Terry “Southwest T” Flenory and Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory distribute cocaine and counted millions in drug proceeds. As part of pleading guilty, he had to forfeit $270,000 to the government. Welch’s mother, Tonesa, her boyfriend Terry Flenory, and three of his cousins were also jailed for their roles in BMF.
But Welch said he’s left that life behind, and when he’s released, he’d like to be a mentor, and speak to kids about the importance of financial literacy.
“If we learn those types of things at an early age, teaching them about business, credit, finance –if we learn those types of things at an early age, it sets the foundation to build something. I think that was one of my biggest problems. Having money and not knowing what to do with it.”
Besides his new business ventures and working with kids, Welch said he’s also looking forward to his first meal on the outside: fried chicken.
“I like lamb chops and shrimp, but I have a craving for something as simple as Popeye’s.”
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