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Peaks and gutters: April 2008
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An occasional rumination on the ups and downs of things. Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Peak: Fever in the funk house, Pt. 7 - Broken Boy Soldiers. Or: How I fill up 2 GB. Being the continuing alphabetical series of the contents of my iPod). Album: Broken Boy Soldiers. 1 Steady, As She Goes. 3 Broken Boy Soldier. 7 Store Bought Bones. 9 Call It a Day. Yes, Broken Boy Soldiers. I think that’s about all I have to say about Broken Boy Soldiers. Links to this post. Labels: Fever in the funk house. Pittsburgh $49...
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Peaks and gutters: Gutter: At least David Johnson cares
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An occasional rumination on the ups and downs of things. Wednesday, May 20, 2009. Gutter: At least David Johnson cares. The cliché says that you can judge a society by the way it treats its prisoners. By the same token, you can judge a city - or town or region - by the way its local television stations handle news. In that regard, Pittsburgh’s interest in the election of its next mayor could be described as secondary, at best. We’ll start with the positive. KDKA led with the sordid tale of a student and ...
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Peaks and gutters: April 2009
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An occasional rumination on the ups and downs of things. Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Peak: The best thing to come out of this election. The result of that kind of philosophy is that the incumbent wins, despite the best efforts of the challengers and a pretty strong group of reform-minded individuals who would really like to see something change. Have been, but that’s another topic altogether). But one of the biggest benefits for the city that can come from this election is the emergence of Carmen Robinson.
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Peaks and gutters: May 2008
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An occasional rumination on the ups and downs of things. Monday, May 19, 2008. Gutter: Cheapskate teams hit struggles. Anyone else in the Cheapskate. Oakland’s struggles continued over the final half of last week, and the once-hot A’s have now lost five of their last six and seven of their last 10 after getting swept in Cleveland and dropping two of three in Atlanta over the weekend. Total salaries ( according to this list published by the Associated Press. Pittsburgh $49,365,283. Oakland $47,967,126.
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Peaks and gutters: Peak: Renewal in various forms
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An occasional rumination on the ups and downs of things. Tuesday, June 9, 2009. Peak: Renewal in various forms. I guess the Post-Gazette headline writer and I have a different take on “vibrancy.”. East Liberty becomes a vibrant community. I just don’t know about that. In fact, I once fancied myself a very wise civic observer when I stated to anyone who would listen that Penn Circle was like a noose, suffocating East Liberty until it had lost all life. Yeah, I was pretty proud of that one. There is all ki...
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Peaks and gutters: Gutter: Summertime and the living's easy
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An occasional rumination on the ups and downs of things. Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Gutter: Summertime and the living's easy. Another day, another recognition as the Most Livable City in the state/country/world. 8230;Pittsburgh once again is the most livable city in the United States - and 29th worldwide - in a 2009 survey by British magazine The Economist… (Post-Gazette, 6/10/2009). And again I say, take that, East St. Louis! But we should give the other side a say as well. Of course, there was that surv...
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Peaks and gutters: November 2009
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An occasional rumination on the ups and downs of things. Thursday, November 12, 2009. Gutter: One day is all it takes. Here I thought that serious, complicated issues took a considerable amount of time to address. Turns out you can get it done in one day. The daylong event at the Downtown YWCA is designed to bring city school and civic leaders together to develop a plan to address the city's 35 percent dropout rate. The plan will be finalized later in the day. Whoa, lunch time. Who's up for Sammy's?
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Peaks and gutters: July 2008
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An occasional rumination on the ups and downs of things. Wednesday, July 16, 2008. Gutter: Cheapskate at the All-Star break. Since it’s the All-Star break, I thought I’d update the standings in the running for the first-ever Cheapskate Award. For those who came in late (or just forgot since I haven’t updated these standings since mid-May), the Cheapskate rewards the team that is able to spend the least amount of money per win. Here are the numbers we’re working with. Pittsburgh $49,365,283. Tampa Bay pro...
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Peaks and gutters: May 2009
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An occasional rumination on the ups and downs of things. Tuesday, May 26, 2009. Gutter: Who wants to get held down? The highly-encouraged daily reading of The Radical Middle. Has an excellent post today on the topic of the sanctity of marriage. The whole topic of gay marriage - or at least the frequent proposals to legally demonize it - has always stuck in my crawl, and TRM has one of those classic “let’s have fun and point out how stupid this is” posts, so I recommend you check it out. To a certain exte...