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Down by the rivers


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great allegheny passage, north shore, pittsburgh, south side

Published Feb. 20, 2009 at 5:27 p.m.
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Last week I attended a presentation by Bob Gangewere about the Heritage Signs on the Three Rivers Heritage Trail. I was looking for an update on the progress of the Great Allegheny Passage (which still has gaps at this end), which will eventually make it possible to bike from the Point to DC without having to dodge any traffic more threatening than cycling parents pulling those kid-trailers ... He tossed out some alluring ideas from the land of Friends of the Riverfront and the greenway

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Deadly Shooting


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west end

Published Feb. 18, 2009 at 5:35 p.m.
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Debra Brown, the aunt to Troy Saunders, stands next to her nephew's memorial at Cabaret West on West Chestnut street in Washington. She spends a quiet moment in disbelief of what happened. Troy was fatally shot and two others wounded outside Cabaret West bar in the West End ...

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Pittsburgh Misses Most Miserable Designation


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pittsburgh

Published Feb. 14, 2009 at 1:53 a.m.

Pittsburgh was lucky enough to avoid Forbes’ list of the 10 most miserable cities ... If you check the comments from Pittsburgh residents on some of the articles that have painted Pittsburgh as an up and coming city that has rejuvenated itself following the collapse of the steel industry, you might be surprised that some [ ... ] ...

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Celebration, Steeler Nation !


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pittsburgh, steelers

Published Feb. 3, 2009 at 5:35 p.m.
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James Harrison addresses the faithful, while holding the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Hines Ward,front, Carey Davis, left, and Nate Washington interact with the crowd during the Steelers victory parade in Pittsburgh ...

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Steelers Fashion


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pittsburgh, steelers

Published Feb. 1, 2009 at 4:34 p.m.
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It is finally upon us: the Super Bowl ... As we prepare for the big game, I have noticed more and more Steelers apparel around town, and I wonder what the standards are for Steelers fashion. I saw the gamut this morning at church - a Bettis jersey over a black and gold polo shirt, a hundred-year-old woman wearing a Steelers neckerchief, a guy with a white turtleneck under a Roethlisberger jersey, a Polamalu jersey tucked into khakis, etc ... My first thought is to think they all looked stupid.

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Media Day


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pittsburgh, steelers

Published Jan. 28, 2009 at 10:07 a.m.
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Among the media stories surrounding the Steelers are a lot of regurgitated stories us Pittsburghers already knew about (that Aaron Smith's son has cancer, that Jared Retkofsky was a mover, that Ben Roethlisberger was in a motorcycle accident) ... So. We all knew that our new long snapper was working as a mover when he got the call to come to Pittsburgh. Gene Collier recounts this story in the P-G and it really is quite moving to read of his family struggles growing up and what it meant for him

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Pittsburgh’s Real Estate Market - From Worst to First


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pittsburgh

Published Jan. 26, 2009 at 11:57 a.m.

Both Pittsburgh’s residential real estate market and commercial real estate market have received praise for their strength in recent days.Moody’s ranked the Pittsburgh commercial real estate market the best in the nation in its latest survey of the market in 60 metropolitan regions ... Back in 2005, it was ranked among the worst for [ ... ] ...

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Keeping The Dream Alive


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friendship

Published Jan. 25, 2009 at 9:32 p.m.
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Dr.Stephen Sullivan, president of the Ohio State Baptist Convention and a former Friendship Baptist minister speaking at a NAACP's tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Friendship Baptist Church in Washington January 25, 2009 ...

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A Tale of Two Different Pittsburghs


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pittsburgh

Published Jan. 21, 2009 at 4:21 p.m.

The New York Times earlier this month did a news story on Pittsburgh titled, For Pittsburgh, There’s Life After Steel ... It spins a story of a relatively recession-proof city that has turned the corner in its economic transformation ... Although it faced tough times when others prospered, it now finds itself in the sweet [ ... ] ...

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Woooooooooooooooooooooooooo!


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downtown, pirates, pittsburgh, south side, steelers

Published Jan. 20, 2009 at 10:09 p.m.
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Head out for a few days on vacation, and the Pittsburgh sports scene explodes! ... 1. Duh. Steelers are headed to the Super Bowl. Wooooo! ... What a game! My vacation was to Tampa, just a few weeks early. Bummer. All season, I bitched about the Steelers, that they didn't look like a Super Bowl team, that they were getting lucky and waiting for the defense to pull it through at the end. I guess when it matters, they pull out all the stops. I have no doubt they'll kill the Cardinals in Tampa,

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