Pittsburgh’s renaissance holds lesson for Cleveland – Metro – cleveland.com
Published November 23, 2008 cool stuff from the interweb , hometown hell Leave a CommentWhen steel and heavy manufacturing vanished a quarter-century ago, Pittsburgh lost 200,000 jobs in three years. Hulks of deserted mills, their furnaces dead-cold, glowered from the banks of the city's three rivers like the eerie stone faces on Easter Island. Young people fled, turning the town's fabled black-and-gold color scheme to gray.
Fast-forward 25 years. As most of the nation reels in debt and despair, Pittsburgh is on the move: A new $200 million downtown office tower, upscale condos, a casino, a new hockey arena and a riverfront convention center.
Its air and water are clean, and its waterfront is lined with bike trails and entertainment complexes. Six Fortune 500 firms hang their hats here. Carnegie Mellon University serves as a magnet for some of the world's best and brainiest young people.
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Published November 20, 2008 cool stuff from the interweb Leave a Comment
Go Browns. Pittsburgh Still Sucks.
Published November 18, 2008 cool stuff from the interweb , hometown hell , sports 2 Comments“More troubling than the the guy who shaved sections of his torso for Bills paint? The Steelers fan wearing Bills horns next to him. For shame, displaced yinzer.”
Man, they sure love their Stillers here (and elsewhere), huh?
This one is for all the monkey-faced troll skanks here in Da ‘Burgh whose nasty gene pools will NEVER (and let me be perfectly clear) NEVER mix it up in my hot tub. Ya’ll keep doing what you’re doing.
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Published November 14, 2008 cool stuff from the interweb , music 1 CommentFormer Indians broadcaster Herb Score dies at age 75 Cleveland, Ohio Sports News, Scores, Teams, Results & More – cleveland.com
Published November 11, 2008 sports Leave a CommentFormer Cleveland Indians pitcher and broadcaster Herb Score died this morning at age 75 in his room at home in Rocky River, the Indians confirmed today.
He was a brilliant Indians pitcher whose baseball career was virtually ended on May 7, 1957 when the 23-year-old was hit in the right eye by a line drive off the bat of Gil McDougald of the New York Yankees.
