Pittsburgh
As American as Andy Warhol
Handpicked by President Obama as the host city of last week’s G-20 economic conference, Pittsburgh may finally be getting its due. While most news coverage of the event was more concerned with the art of global financial negotiations than with the artwork hanging on the walls of the city’s museums, a different kind of story […]
Pittsburgh One of Only Three U.S. Cities to Have Fully Recovered from the Recession
The economy is on an upswing for three cities in America, and today marks our last visit with a city the Brookings Institution has deemed recovered from the recession. The third stop on our road to recovery is in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh has officially reached pre-2007 levels for both GDP per capita and employment, and its […]
Dallas Is One of Only Three U.S. Cities that Has Recovered Fully from the Recession
Last week the Brookings Institution named Knoxville, Dallas, and Pittsburgh the only three American cities to have officially emerged from the recession. Dallas is the largest metropolitan area of the three, with a population of just over 1.2 million. It also has one of the top performing economies of all U.S. cities. But Dallas is […]
The “Threateners” Responsible for More Than 100 Bomb Threats at the University of Pittsburgh
There have been over 100 bomb threats in the past few months at the University of Pittsburgh by a group calling themselves the “Threateners.” The threats have turned university life upside down in the weeks leading up to graduation. Andrew Shull is the News Editor at The Pitt News, the independent student newspaper at the University […]
Could the Rooney Rule Work Outside the NFL?
The NFL has in place a regulation called the Rooney Rule, which demands that every team must interview a minority candidate if a coaching or general manger’s position is open. Many would like to see that rule in place in other venues. Robert Johnson, founder of BET, proposed on The Takeaway that if corporate America […]