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Old 12-04-2020, 01:16 PM
 
Location: Downtown Cranberry Twp.
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Right on. The city and Allegheny Co., to some extent, moving in one direction on development and the rest of the metro moving in another, by and large, just keeps everyone in a stall. I wish the mayor could find his way to being a leader for the region and start "seeing" the folks outside his city, finding the common ground between the two.
Bingo

I’d wager his arrogance in the matter of “seeing the folks outside his city” would’ve ever happened without the pandemic, but his suggestion has/will certainly come to fruition. https://www.google.com/amp/s/dve.ihe...shopping-mall/
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Old 12-04-2020, 05:23 PM
 
Location: In Transition
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Right on. The city and Allegheny Co., to some extent, moving in one direction on development and the rest of the metro moving in another, by and large, just keeps everyone in a stall. I wish the mayor could find his way to being a leader for the region and start "seeing" the folks outside his city, finding the common ground between the two.
Correct. There needs to be a change in the Mayor’s office for sure.

Everybody needs to start meeting in the middle and working together to figure it out. Pittsburgh, Allegheny County as well as the surrounding counties all have a stake in the future here. It could work if everybody sat down at the table to meet in the middle. Neither side is going to get everything they want, but the bottom line is if you want to stay relevant things need to change.

The left in this town needs to stop pandering to such a small group of people and just bowing down to CMU, while realizing the energy sector and manufacturing provides jobs. Manufacturing provides tons of jobs. Stop stifling other industry because it doesn’t fit your definition of sexy.

By the same token the far right folks need to stop playing the victim and realize their towns and cities need to change as well. Stop romanticizing about how the past was better than now. I assure you nobody is alive to remember when you could get a job in this region anywhere.

Both groups need to change and stop looking at the other as the enemy. We aren’t going to agree on a lot of things, but everybody needs to have a say in the future of this region. Working together and meeting in the middle is the only way to solve the economic problems here.

Stop acting like elities and MAGA folks. Meet in the middle and figure it out.

Who wants to live in a city with only a half dozen decent neighborhoods, a county where schools go down the crapper and surrounding metro counties where they lead the nation in overdoses and those on disability?

Yep. Nobody.
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Old 12-04-2020, 05:44 PM
 
Location: Downtown Cranberry Twp.
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Lol. It’s a lib city and libs want nothing to do with changing it. What’s interesting is that the same folks that want the city their way, when it gets better, it gets more expensive, then they complain about being priced out, and think they should be given even more. I’d wager that won’t change anytime soon, and it will continue to try to be muh progressive.
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Old 12-04-2020, 07:03 PM
 
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Lol. It’s a lib city and libs want nothing to do with changing it. What’s interesting is that the same folks that want the city their way, when it gets better, it gets more expensive, then they complain about being priced out, and think they should be given even more. I’d wager that won’t change anytime soon, and it will continue to try to be muh progressive.
True, but that goes back to the city catering to only one group of folks. The voters are having trouble understanding that. If the city voters had any brains at all, Peduto would suffer the same fate as trump did the next time around.
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Old 12-04-2020, 07:16 PM
 
Location: Downtown Cranberry Twp.
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True, but that goes back to the city catering to only one group of folks. The voters are having trouble understanding that. If the city voters had any brains at all, Peduto would suffer the same fate as trump did the next time around.
Peduto’s weak and a perfect recipe for a lib city.

Lol at the Trump reference. That man is going to live in your head for likely forever.
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Old 12-07-2020, 09:45 AM
 
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Peduto’s weak and a perfect recipe for a lib city.

Lol at the Trump reference. That man is going to live in your head for likely forever.
Not really. He'll probably go back to hosting beauty pageants and fighting with Rosie. Of course, that is his goal to live rent-free in heads though. The man values one thing above everything else in his life, even more than his money and that is attention. Dirty Money had an entire episode about him on Netflix that has people from all aspects of his business and personal lives, pretty telling although not very surprising. After watching it his behavior during presidency and before makes way more sense now that I truly understand the depths the man will go to stay relevant.
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Old 12-07-2020, 10:10 AM
 
Location: Downtown Cranberry Twp.
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Not really. He'll probably go back to hosting beauty pageants and fighting with Rosie. Of course, that is his goal to live rent-free in heads though. The man values one thing above everything else in his life, even more than his money and that is attention. Dirty Money had an entire episode about him on Netflix that has people from all aspects of his business and personal lives, pretty telling although not very surprising. After watching it his behavior during presidency and before makes way more sense now that I truly understand the depths the man will go to stay relevant.
What’s wrong with hosting beauty pageants? Just gotta make sure you put the crown on the right woman’s head(Poor Steve Harvey).

Rosie is such a classy lady. Wasn’t she supposed to move to Canada?

Gasp. He seeks attention. Pretty much every celebrity/famous person does that.

No POTUS has to do anything to stay relevant, especially with the media in today’s world. Even Obama is able to remain relevant.
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Old 12-26-2020, 08:44 PM
 
Location: In Transition
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I think the most disappointing thing is the promises and hype. In a week it will be 2021. The dawn of a new census is upon us. Even if Pittsburghs economic ship was righted in the 2020s those that are older than 18 would not see the benefits of a rejuvenated Pittsburgh because of the time it takes and likelihood people are headed elsewhere for a career.
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Old 02-05-2021, 07:22 PM
 
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I think the most disappointing thing is the promises and hype. In a week it will be 2021. The dawn of a new census is upon us. Even if Pittsburghs economic ship was righted in the 2020s those that are older than 18 would not see the benefits of a rejuvenated Pittsburgh because of the time it takes and likelihood people are headed elsewhere for a career.
It looks like 16 have lost population. PA is expected to be one of them.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/researc...e-in-16-states
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