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From the number of global groups that have turned up on our region’s doorstep in the past couple of weeks you might think the G-20 was here last fall instead of more than three years ago. Since the Pittsburgh Summit in 2009 we’ve hosted more than 30 civic leadership delegations from across the country, most [...]
Pennsylvania’s Pension Time Bomb
Of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties, 66 have at least one local government in financial distress. Some of this can be attributed to municipal pension fragmentation throughout the Commonwealth. Nearly one quarter of all municipal pension plans in the country are located in Pennsylvania – a recipe for high costs and anemic returns. [...]
Egyptian Ambassador Visits Pittsburgh
He has only been the Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. for a short time, but Mohamed Tawfik has decided to make Pittsburgh his second U.S. city to visit (the first being New York). While Egyptian politics are still in a state of flux since the Arab Spring, Tawfik discusses the growing [...]
In honor of what would have been the 85th birthday of Fred Rogers — that quintessential Pittsburgher, educator, songwriter, author and creator and host of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood – we revisit a previously published post by Jim Futrell, the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance’s vice president of market research. A sometimes-gruff repository [...]
Ness Technologies – a global provider of IT solutions and services and end-to-end, commercial-grade software development solutions opened its first U.S. development center in Southpointe, Washington County. The Pittsburgh Development Center (PDC) is part of Ness’ plan to build a strong onshore presence, in addition to multiple offshore and nearshore development centers [...]
The Latino population in the Pittsburgh region may be small, but it is growing steadily and many of its professionals are making a positive mark here.
A few of them are highlighted in a series of videos as part of the new Latino outreach initiative by
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