Category: Blogs
County Controllers Race – Surprisingly Interesting (& Poll)
| May 16, 2011 | Posted by Race for PGH under 2011 Primary, Blogs, Polls |
Well for this most part this primary election has been pretty sleepy – Fitzgerald and Flaherty haven’t done much do distinguish their campaigns – the general sentiment about both is eh. The city council races have been a little more interesting. It looks like Dowd and Kraus are doing well – their opponents haven’t put up much…
Propel Pittsburgh is back again…
| February 21, 2011 | Posted by committeegrrl under Blogs, Pittsburgh |
From today’s Post-Gazette - Ravenstahl shakes up youth panel – Mayor Luke Ravenstahl continues to show his commitment to young Pittsburgh by talking about the Propel Pittsburgh commission. This time the mayor is removing himself from the commission and making it smaller 15 people instead of 35. While I would love to be excited about the…
Help BikePGH deliver 1,000 hand-written letters to the Mayor!
| February 15, 2011 | Posted by p2wp under Blogs, Transportation |
From the BikePGH blog and newsletter… In 2010, the City of Pittsburgh installed about 5 miles of bike lanes and sharrows, mostly in East End neighborhoods. These lanes were a welcome addition to the emerging city-wide bike lane network, and showed that the City was serious when, upon receiving the “Bronze Bike-friendly Community” status, Mayor Ravenstahl proclaimed that there…
“He let us down” – Steelworkers Sit-in at Jason Altmire’s Office
| March 21, 2010 | Posted by engagedcitizen under Blogs, Health Insurance |
Yesterday – Congressman Jason Altmire stated that he would vote no on health care reform bill. Today the Steelworkers responded to Representative Altmire’s decision at his office in Aliquippa.
Streetsblog.net – blogging for liveable streets
| March 19, 2010 | Posted by p2wp under Blogs |
Image by richardmasoner via Flickr We noticed this little widget on the side bar of The Digging Pitt blog (a great blog about art and transit in Pittsburgh) for Streetsblog.net – some of the articles looked like they would be of interest to the Progress Pittsburgh community. About Streetsblog.net … Bringing together the best of…
Has Dan Onorato Lost His Mind?
| March 18, 2010 | Posted by p2wp under 2010, Blogs, Elections, Pennsylvania, Politics, Polls, voting |
If you missed yesterday’s news in the governor’s race, you missed some really bizarre behavior from the Onorato campaign. Just before the close of business on the final day that petitions could be challenged, the Onorato campaign filed objections trying to block Joe Hoeffel from being on the ballot. The Hoeffel campaign fired back in a…
The Pittsburgh Hoagie: All Meat, No Filler – Is Now All Gone
| March 2, 2010 | Posted by committeegrrl under Blogs |
We were hoping that some of the usual Pittsburgh political bloggers would be following the Jeff Dzamko story. Dzamko is a good friend of Luke Ravenstahl who was just arrested on Friday for an outstanding bench warrant from 2008 on some bad checks.
Peduto’s Holiday Fete
| December 2, 2009 | Posted by p2wp under Blogs, Politics |
From Chris Potter: You’ve probably heard of the “Anybody But Luke” crowd, right? Well, I can tell you where everybody who is anybody will be on the night of Dec. 3. They’ll be hanging out with city councilor Bill Peduto. Here’s the details on that party, from billpeduto.com: Here is how you can show your…
Pigs Fly! and other unexpected news
| November 1, 2009 | Posted by emma under 2009, Blogs, Gossip, Pittsburgh, Politics |
Matt H has been called quite a few names from many around the burghosphere (including by me!) Mostly, they centered around his role as the lone apologist for the mayor on the interwebs. That’s why his endorsement slate is probably going to catch quite a few people by surprise: Mayor, City of Pittsburgh: Kevin Acklin There are…
Dok Harris and residency
| October 16, 2009 | Posted by insider under 2009, Blogs, Elections, Pittsburgh, Politics, voting, Voting Rights |
An investigation by KDKA turned up information suggesting that Dok Harris may be ineligible to be mayor. The home rule charter lays out the requirements for taking office as mayor: The mayor shall have been a resident of the City for at least three years immediately preceding election Harris held a press conference today, where…
What ever happened to the LGBT Advisory Committee and Propel Pittsburgh
| September 11, 2009 | Posted by engagedcitizen under Blogs, Discussion, Pittsburgh |
The short answer to that question is – Nothing. The PGH Lesbian Correspondent added another post about the yet to be announced Pittsburgh LGBT advisory committee. She has blogged about this occasionally over the past year so we thought it would be interesting to see just how long this LGBT Advisory Committee has be discussed. …
Netroots Nation Take Aways
| August 19, 2009 | Posted by carolyn under Allegheny-County, B-PEP, Blogs, Daily Links, Discussion, Health Insurance, Issues, Links, Location, MoveOn.org, P2PAC, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh |
My biggest take away from Netroots Nation is that it’s not enough to elect Barack Obama President. I have work to do in getting the change I want passed into legislation. Right now, that means getting the Public Option passed into national healthcare reform. Monday I heard Arlen Spector on NPR saying that Health Coops…
What did you think of Netroots Nation?
| August 17, 2009 | Posted by committeegrrl under Blogs, Discussion |
Image by BuffaloPundit via Flickr Well alot has happened in the past few days… from President Clinton to Shepard Fairey – bloggers and guest speakers visited Pittsburgh and discussed all sorts of things. Here is some of the blog andmedia coverage of the Netroots Nation: Pittsburgh Business Times 2 Political Junkies – Quoted by the…
The Significance of a Little Pizza Shop
| August 3, 2009 | Posted by Seenster under 2009, Blogs |
Image by The Eggplant via Flickr I was wondering if any of the coverage of Dok Harris’s campaign kick off would pick up on this last week. (Post-Gazette coverage – Franco Dok Harris kicks off mayoral bid, July 28, 2009.) But this post on Schloss in the burgh – Please explain this to me –…
CBA Post-Agenda, According to Twitter
| July 27, 2009 | Posted by Seenster under Blogs, Community Development, Politics, Sustainable Development |
Today’s post-agenda on Community Benefit Agreements held in Pittsburgh’s City Council Chambers had some in the audience all a-twitter. Here’s what happened:
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