G-20 Leaders Descend on Pittsburgh
The G20 summit kicks off in Pittsburgh today. Leaders from the world's biggest economies are gathering in the Steel City to develop plans for repairing the wounded global economy, reforming bank-bonus...
View ArticleWhat Pittsburgh Has to Offer (Beyond the G-20 Events)
Today, global leaders descend on a small American town known as Pittsburgh, as the G-20 world summit gets underway. Local Pittsburgh residents are happy to have the attention (even if downtown security...
View ArticleG-20 Protestors Clash With Police
The long-awaited G-20 Summit gets under way this week as Pittsburgh opens its doors to leaders from 20 of the world's largest economic powers, along with the legions of protesters who come with them....
View ArticleAs 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...
View ArticleTN Moving Stories: NY Tour Bus Checkpoint Finds 100% of Buses in Violation,...
Senator Charles Schumer in Chinatown (photo by Arun Venugopal/WNYC)A vehicle checkpoint in NY found that 14 out of 14 tour buses stopped had safety problems, leading NY Senator Charles Schumer to call...
View ArticleSafety Keeps Pittsburgh Cyclists from Becoming Bike Commuters
(Larkin Page-Jacobs/Essential Public Radio) (Larkin Page-Jacobs, Pittsburgh, Penn. -- Essential Public Radio) Bob Knoll and two of his friends decided to go on a bike ride back on Memorial Day. It...
View ArticleTN MOVING STORIES: American Airlines Files for Bankruptcy, Pittsburgh's...
Top stories on TN:Building the Second Avenue Subway: the sandhog tradition stays in the family. (Link)Choose your own rail adventure -- via computer games. (Link)Audio tour: the worst road in...
View ArticleThe History, and (Questionable) Future of Pittsburgh's Public Transit
(Photo (cc) by Flickr user: Amphis d'@illeurs)Like many cities, Pittsburgh is fending off steep transit cuts.To catch you up on the stakes in Pittsburgh, the Port Authority, the agency in charge of...
View ArticleThe "Threateners" Responsible for More Than 100 Bomb Threats at the...
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...
View ArticlePittsburgh's "Paper Streets:" Hard To Maintain, Harder to Take Responsibility...
Some cyclists use this shortcut after work, when it is dark and difficult to see the path. An adult bike is positioned next to the sinkhole to show scale. (Photo by Emily DeMarco/PublicSource)Listen to...
View ArticleData Dive: Pittsburgh Struggling to Fill Potholes
(Emily DeMarco, PublicSource) Jessica Ferrell knows the danger of potholes. She fell twice because of the same one: Once when she was pregnant, then again when she was carrying her newborn baby in a...
View ArticlePittsburgh One of Only Three U.S. Cities to Have Fully Recovered from the...
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...
View ArticleShale Drillers Eager to Move Wastewater on Barges
The "Vulcan" towboat and its load pass the Point on the Ohio River, highlighted by the sunrise. The Vulcan beongs to the Consol Energy fleet. (Photo by Darrell Sapp / Post-Gazette)(Emily DeMarco -...
View ArticlePittsburgh Not Enforcing Tow Truck Licensing Rules
Illustration by Anita DuFalla(Halle Stockton -- PublicSource) In April 2010, the Pittsburgh City Council unanimously passed an ordinance to protect motorists from aggressive tow-truck drivers.Council...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Water Main Break
A water main break rages under the South Millvale Bridge in Bloomfield in January. (Photo courtesy of PWSA)(Larkin Page-Jacobs, Pittsburgh, WESA) You know it's winter in Pittsburgh when your car is...
View ArticleOld Diesel Equipment Still Spewing Soot Into Pittsburgh's Air
(photo by Emily DeMarco/Public Source)(Emily DeMarco, PublicSource) Morry Feldman downs two horse pills with breakfast. Then, he uses four different sprays. Two puffs into the mouth. Two into the nose....
View ArticleThe Pittsburgh Area Has Light Rail — But Can You Find It?
By Emily DeMarco | PublicSource | May 1, 2013The Hillcrest light-rail stop is not easy to find.There is no sign at either entrance. Tucked between two hills in Bethel Park, it’s barely visible from...
View ArticleWho Paid for a Pittsburgh Political Attack Ad?
Shortly before last month’s mayoral primary in Pittsburgh an attack ad began airing criticizing one of the mayoral candidates. The ad was paid for by an anonymous third party and ordinarily the search...
View ArticleA Group Effort To Crack The Brain's Code
The brain is mind-bogglingly complex – so complex that no one area of science can encompass it. That’s why researchers from different disciplines at Carnegie Mellon are teaming up to unravel the...
View ArticleThe Innovation Culture of Pittsburgh
Long gone are the steel town days. We head to the city of Pittsburgh to take a look at the burgeoning innovation economy. Long gone are the steel town days. We head to the city of Pittsburgh to take a...
View ArticleThe Legacy of the Robber Barons
The Pittsburgh of the 1800s was a dirty, depressing, and dispiriting place. Professor Edward Muller explains how the smog-choked factories actually helped make the city a more livable place today. The...
View ArticleWhat Cities Need To Succeed
Pittsburgh was built on steel, but now it’s building robots. We talk with author Richard Florida about how cities like Pittsburgh can attract the “creative class” leading the tech revolution....
View Article9.19.15 From Robber Barons to Robots
This week on Innovation Hub, we take a field trip to Pittsburgh, and explore what the city says about the future of urban life. Richard Florida tells us about its transformation from a steel town to an...
View ArticleCan an innovative Pittsburgh program help repair the broken lives of foster...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioBY APRIL BROWN AND MIKE FRITZPITTSBURGH — At 13, Lafayette Goode had to face a situation that, for most children, is unimaginable. He had no place to call home.“I got...
View ArticleUber to launch fleet of self-driving Volvos. Will Pittsburgh residents hop in?
An illustration picture shows the logo of car-sharing service app Uber on a smartphone next to the picture of a taxi sign. Photo illustration by Kai Pfaffenbach/ReutersRide-sharing service Uber...
View ArticleHow Uber is helping steer the future of self-driving cars
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Now: The Jetsons future may be arriving sooner than you think, for better or for worse.Uber is experimenting with self-driving cars. In Pittsburgh today,...
View ArticleTrump tries to expand reach while Clinton focuses on strongholds
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: It is all about numbers tonight, economic and electoral, as the presidential contest comes down to the wire.Lisa Desjardins begins our coverage, with...
View ArticleAugust Wilson House
The Pulitzer and Tony Award winning writer August Wilson based many of his plays in the Hill District, the predominantly black neighborhood in Pittsburgh where he grew up. Recently, one of the plays,...
View ArticleGentrification In Pittsburgh: A Tale of Two Cities
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. Ask a resident of Pittsburgh what it's like to live there these days, and you might get a tale of two cities.Like many American cities...
View ArticleWhy the lessons of Mister Rogers never go away
Anthony Breznican, a novelist and writer for Entertainment Weekly, recently took to Twitter this week to share his story of meeting Fred Rogers — known to most as Mister Rogers from the iconic...
View ArticleWhen helpful refugee resettlement programs end, these mentors step in
The Pittsburgh organization Hello Neighbor arranges events where resettled refugees can meet members of the community. Photo courtesy of Hello NeighborIn order to make the refugees who were moving into...
View ArticlePittsburgh's Harlem
Mark Whitaker, former managing editor at CNN Worldwide and author of Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance (Simon & Schuster, 2018) looks at the history and influence of...
View ArticleConsciousness In 'Westworld,' Heart Cells On Graphene, Bike Safety App. May...
In HBO’s series Westworld, human-like robots populate a theme park where human guests can have violent, gory adventures in the Wild West without the repercussions. The robots are so lifelike that they...
View ArticleOfficer Who Killed Antwon Rose II in East Pittsburgh Charged With Homicide
Over the weekend, residents in and around East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania protested the police shooting and killing of the unarmed teenager Antwon Rose II. But on Wednesday, Allegheny County District...
View ArticleDirector of Refugee Organization Hated by Pittsburgh Shooter Speaks Out
The man suspected of killing 11 people in Pittsburgh Saturday was fixated on a New York City organization that was founded in 1881. Now known as HIAS, it was originally founded as the Hebrew Immigrant...
View ArticleHIAS Responds to Deadly Attack on Pittsburgh Synagogue
Melanie Nezer, senior vice president of public affairs at HIAS, a nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees, talks about the weekend's deadly attack at a...
View ArticleGab is Back in the Headlines and Off the Web
The social media website Gab has faced sanction and scorn in the days since one of its active users killed 11 members of Pittsburgh's Jewish community. Gab had, for the past few years, made itself out...
View ArticleAfter Synagogue Massacre, How Should Parents Talk to Their Children?
When horrific acts of violence occur, like the massacre seen on Saturday when a gunman murdered 11 Jewish congregants at The Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA, there is no rule book for parents...
View ArticleShabbat Hashtag Invites Healing, Solidarity After Pittsburgh Shooting
People from Natalie Katzourin-Buchsbaum's synagogue in Elizabeth, N.J., have been shaken and nervous, she said, ever since a gunman killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh last Saturday....
View ArticleTree of Life: A Concert for Peace and Unity
On Thursday evening at 9 pm, WQXR will broadcast Tree of Life: A Concert for Peace and Unity, a special event honoring the victims of the October 2018 mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life...
View ArticleDamon Young & Kiese Laymon: The "Good Dude" Closet
Writers Damon Young and Kiese Laymon both are on book tour, promoting their acclaimed memoirs. And while they've been friends via social media for years, they'd never met face to face before recording...
View Article405- Freedom House Ambulance Service
One night halfway through a graveyard shift at the hospital, orderly John Moon watched as two young men burst through the doors. They were working desperately to save a dying patient. Maybe today he...
View ArticleThe Invisible Future of American Jobs
Over the last several decades, manufacturing jobs in the U.S. have withered. Meanwhile, health care has become the fastest growing job sector in the country, and it’s been on top for years. According...
View ArticleHow the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Doubled Down on a Stark Double-Standard for...
By May 31 of last year, after several days of protest over the police killing of George Floyd, and after some destruction of private and public property in cities like Pittsburgh and elsewhere, a...
View ArticleAn Invisible Future for American Jobs
Over the last several decades, manufacturing jobs in the U.S. have withered. Meanwhile, health care has become the fastest growing job sector in the country, and it’s been on top for years. According...
View ArticleLooking Back On Steel City
In Pittsburgh, PA stands a tall tower: a black monolith and symbol of old industrial power. It once headquartered United States Steel; now, it's home to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. And...
View ArticleThe Ghosts of the Rust Belt
The old US Steel building in Pittsburgh, PA is a black monolith, symbol and fortress of industrial power, soaring above the confluence of three mighty rivers. But its vista has changed. Gone is the...
View ArticleWhen Black Journalists Are Barred From Covering Black Lives Matter Protests
By May 31 of last year, after several days of protest over the police killing of George Floyd, and after some destruction of private and public property in cities like Pittsburgh and elsewhere, a...
View Article405- Freedom House Ambulance Service: American Sirens
When people ask me what my favorite episode of 99% Invisible is, I have a hard time answering. Not because they’re all my precious little babies or some such nonsense, but mostly it’s because I just...
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