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City Pride Fail

A famous beacon atop a building in downtown Pittsburgh has been broadcasting the city's name in Morse code since 1929. The only problem is they spelled it wrong.
19 July 2009 - 1:00pm
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Pittsburgh Mayor Announces Riverfront Revamping

Mayor Luke Ravenstahl announced that the city will work to redevelop a 6.2 stretch of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, selling large tracts of city-owned land to developers.
1 May 2009 - 11:00am
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Parking Privatization Idea Has Pittsburgh Officials Seeing Green

Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is considering a plan to raise extra money for his city by leasing public parking spaces and garages to a private company.
18 January 2009 - 11:00am
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Pittsburgh Looks to Transit For Rebirth

Officials in Pittsburgh are hoping that expanding transit-oriented development will spur growth in struggling and decaying neighborhoods -- and they have the voter-approved legislation to help.
13 January 2009 - 5:00am
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Showcasing Suburbia

An exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art offers an unbiased, "awestruck" exploration of America's suburbs.
8 October 2008 - 6:00am
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Pittsburgh Takes Steps Toward Bike-Friendliness

Pittsburgh becomes first city in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to hire a full-time bike/pedestrian coordinator.
14 August 2008 - 5:00am
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Excessive Highway Building To Blame For Bridge Woes

Official sources show that Minnesota had been long diverting bridge repair funds to build new highways.
5 August 2008 - 6:00am
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Great Allegheny Passage Brings Unexpected Revitalization

Hiking and cycling traffic on the Great Allegheny Passageway has brought jobs and prosperity to small towns along the route.
30 July 2008 - 2:00pm
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Pittsburgh Set To Allow Density Bonuses For Green Buildings

The Pittsburgh City Council is unanimously backing legislation to allow LEED-certified buildings to be taller and bigger than zoning ordinances would normally allow.
19 November 2007 - 12:00pm
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Pittsburgh's Livability: It's The Small Things

The credit for Pittsburgh's recent honor of 'most livable city' goes not to big marketing or development initiatives, but the sum of a lot of small things that make the city and region a good place to live.
16 July 2007 - 9:00am
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Pennsylvania Struggles With Turnpike Plans

As of late, how to best operate and maintain Pennsylvania's Turnpike has become a hot issue among the state's politicians. Will they ever agree on a solution?
5 June 2007 - 2:00pm
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Planners Seek Input On Plan From Neighborhood Youth

City planners in Pittsburgh broadened their conventional public participation process and worked with local kids to get their feedback and ideas about the new community plan for the South Side neighborhood.
29 May 2007 - 6:00am
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Gas Is More Expensive, But Still Cheap

Though Americans are complaining about rising gas prices, demand has barely budged. And when adjusted for inflation and considered as a percentage of household spending, prices are still below the peaks in the 1970s and 1980s.
24 May 2007 - 9:00am
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Almanac Publishes New List of 'Most Livable' Cities

The "Places Rated Almanac" ranks Pittsburgh as the nation's most livable city. Rounding out the top three are San Francisco and Seattle.
7 May 2007 - 12:00pm
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Outrage Over Pittsburgh Transit Agency Implosion

The city's Port Authority has proposed cutting 25 percent of its bus and rail service and hiking fares by 75 cents to plug an $80 million budget deficit.
25 January 2007 - 8:00am
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The Second Battle Of Gettysburg

A casino proposal shoots the Civil War battlefield to the top of the list of Pennsylvania's endangered historic places.
29 November 2006 - 1:00pm
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Google Launches Transit Mapping Service

Google is testing its new transit trip planning service in six U.S. cities.
28 September 2006 - 5:00am
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Major Foundation Engaged In Land Conservation Effort

The Mellon family foundation has a land preservation conservation campaign that started in the late 1970's. It has saved 3.6 million acres of endangered or historically significant sites in all 50 states.
29 August 2006 - 9:00am
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'Incubators For the American Dream' Are Shrinking

Across the nation, middle class neighborhoods are shrinking as cities and suburbs become increasingly segregated by income.
27 June 2006 - 9:00am
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Winner Announced For Iconic Pittsburgh Pedestrian Bridge

Endres Ware, a California architecture and engineering firm, has won the competition to design a pedestrian walkway for the West End Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
14 June 2006 - 10:00am
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