Alvin Taylor and his wife, Delia Ruiz Taylor, stand on the foundation of a home in Section 14 in Palm Springs. Their family homes in that neighborhood were seized and destroyed. (Jason Armond/Los ...

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Alvin Taylor remembers watching his house go up in flames during Palm Springs' “city-engineered holocaust” of the 1960s, as a state attorney general called it. He doesn’t remember being traumatized.

On April 24, I, Alvin Q. Taylor, in the No. 1 ballot position for the 15th District — Pennsylvania State Senate, am seeking to become the voters’ next senator. I will bring a new perspective of ...

Alvin Taylor and his wife, Delia Ruiz Taylor, look out over a vacant lot owned by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and let childhood memories flood the empty space. In the late 1950s and ...