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While we're on the subject of folks you should listen to, you could put in a call to that Richard Florida guy. He's the former Carnegie Mellon University academic who wrote that Rise of the Creative Class book, who made the case that the artsier a city is, the better, because that makes it cool and young people might want to hang around. He's in D.C. now, but after being shunned by many of Pittsburgh's policy-makers while being courted by those in other cities, I'm sure he'd give you some free advice.
Now about this shithole we call a city. Oh, I don't mean it's not beautiful. It is. And maybe since I live on the North Side I'm a bit jaded. But there's enough freaking litter on the streets here every day (Federal Street near the dirty movie theater comes to mind) to produce confetti for a fullfledged ticker tape parade down Broadway, where they say the neon lights are bright... brighter than the lovely dirty movie theater sign on North Avenue, which is such a source of pride among us North Siders. Murphy made a half-hearted attempt to highlight the disgusting litter problem, but since you're a nuts-and-bolts neighborhood kinda guy, maybe you could really do something. Fine the litterers. Shoot 'em. Something. Please.See the full content of this document
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Bob and Weave
GROUND CONTROL TO Mayor Bob, commencing countdown engines on...
I'm paraphrasing 30-year-old David Bowie lyrics because that's about as hip as you're allowed to get in the 'Burgh. And here in Retro City, Bob is ...See the full content of this document
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