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Location: About 10 miles north of Pittsburgh International
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Originally Posted by dugdogmaster
Per KDKA, Pittsburgh is on the short list to host the G-20 again in the near future, the next time the summit is held in the U.S.
Can't find a link yet.
I posted somewhere above that I'd heard that, and yes, it was on KDKA that I did.
It's funny. Honsberger went on and on for months about the destruction and disruption that happened to other host cities, and what it cost them, yet when callers have tried to put some of the blame on him for how much of the city was shut down, barricaded, and boarded up, he claims they're nuts to think he has any influence.
From what I have heard about the RNC lately, the fact that we have converted our former red light district into the Cultural District means we probably won't get it.
From what I have heard about the RNC lately, the fact that we have converted our former red light district into the Cultural District means we probably won't get it.
It is clear that, like it or not, our economy is necessarily moving in new directions. This week’s G-20 summit is being held in Pittsburgh, in part to highlight the city’s attempt at reinventing itself. Pittsburgh is developing many new “green” initiatives as part of a broader effort to move beyond its outdated, Rust Belt economy. Their unemployment rate is below both the state and national averages.
Our country needs the human capital that college education creates to revitalize the economy through innovations like those on display in Pittsburgh.
I want to insert my personal opinion to this article. Good for them! Good for The University of Pittsburgh Police Department! I always felt safe on Pitt's campus and throughout Oakland, when I attended Pitt, with these guys and girls around. And they always came off as very amiable towards us students, either in groups or when I was by myself. And I can almost guarantee you that the team wanting to enter the Towers was not City of Pittsburgh PD. If it turns out to be, after these investigations, I will be very very surprised. I've also ran across video of Police in The Quad on Youtube if anyone wants to check that out.
Police scanner recordings from Friday night indicate a scene of confusion and confrontation in which Pitt police resisted other officers' attempts to enter Towers Lobby.
"Stand back. That's not happening ... We have jurisdiction on campus," a Pitt police officer said over the radio.
From this recording, it sounds like in the beginning that the police initially wanted to do something completely different than what actually unfolded, the scene just deteriorated that quickly. Keep in mind though, this is condensed to roughly 11 minutes over a few hour period.
Debra Diamond Smit and Tracy Certo
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
We had no idea what to expect of the G-20 Summit.
Best case scenario: a relatively peaceful summit with little violence and injury. Worst case: we didn't want to think about it. But no one can say Pittsburgh was ill-prepared. In the three months since the summit was announced, this city has been turned upside down getting ready, while relaying the story to journalists the world over about our transformation. Perhaps you have seen an article or twenty? Pop City's Buzz section has ramped up its coverage in the past few months with more national and international articles about Pittsburgh than ever, and even we can't keep up.
With press credentials in hand (that will get you through two security zones and a Starbucks, cracked a journalist friend) we set out on Thursday, Day One of the Summit. Crossing the Smithfield Bridge by Station Square, we spotted our first armored Hummer and met two courteous National Homeland Security agents. Yes, there were plenty of terrorist threats, they told us, including the one that started, "the meltdown in Pittsburgh has begun." Hmm. So as we walked across the Smithfield St. bridge and saw Coast Guard boats plying the river, automatic machine guns positioned at the bows, we began to get it.
Like many of my favorite articles, it mentions places not always in the standard story, in this case including Church Brew Works, National Aviary, and Frick Art and Historical Center.
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