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The Conversation: June 2004
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Wednesday, June 30, 2004. We had to destroy the village in order to save it. It seems that we don't have a monopoly on half-baked redevelopment schemes here in western Pennsylvania. Officials in Ardmore, a Philadelphia suburb, want to create a transit-oriented development district. Posted by Jonathan Potts at 9:57 PM. Dream the impossible dream. Check out a new blog by local political gadfly Mark Rauterkus. Who ran a quixotic campaign in 2001 for the Republican nomination for Pittsburgh mayor. He los...
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The Conversation: January 2005
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Monday, January 31, 2005. He must hate freedom. Tim Cavanaugh of Reason. Magazine argues that the war in Iraq was not vindicated by Sunday's apparently successful election, but he notes that it's an argument most war opponents are ill-prepared to make. Time is always on the side of the hawks. Posted by Jonathan Potts at 9:06 PM. Saturday, January 29, 2005. Daniel Gross offers a concise and compelling defense of the New Deal. In the wake of its continued assault by the GOP:. The theory that new taxes and ...
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The Conversation: Good night and good luck
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Sunday, September 07, 2008. Good night and good luck. This is the 827th post on this blog, which I started four years ago. I've decided that it's going to go on hiatus for a while, simply because there are too many other demands on my time. That doesn't mean I'll no longer be wasting time on the Internet, and I may even post something occassionally on my other blog, Dead Tree Blog. Posted by Jonathan Potts at 8:43 PM. But if not, thanks for the insight over the past few years. I don't doubt it. I'm a Pit...
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AntiRust: If we build it they will come. Really. If we build it, they will really, really come. Seriously. Promise this time.
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In Pursuit of a New American Industrialism. Laquo; Pittsburgh Condos: Timing the Real Estate Market. The Post-Gazette Editorial Board: Kissing the Feet of Big Ayatollah? If we build it they will come. Really. If we build it, they will really, really come. Seriously. Promise this time. Is a fascinating take on the vacancy rate for office space in downtown Pittsburgh. Seems that there are more empty offices today than there were a year ago. Which is troublesome. But fear not:. Square feet for UPMC? Then th...