Archive for September, 2006

The Carbolic Smoke Ball

Leave it up to the New York Times to inform me about a Pittsburgh-based blog that is really damn funny. The NYT had done an article about Pittsburghs’s new mayor Luke Ravenstahl and had interviewed the author of a blog here in the ‘Burgh. It’s called The Carbolic Smoke Ball and it has [...]


RIP Mayor O’Connor

City of Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O’Connor passed away last night after a two month battle with a rare form of brain cancer. Although I am not a city resident, I feel terrible for him, his family and the entire greater Pittsburgh area.
Mayor O’Connor finally got elected on his third try at the office and [...]