what’s wrong with this picture?
Every day, when my daughter was growing up, I’d point at a photograph in the newspaper and say “What’s wrong with this picture?”. She’s gone now, 23 years old and in school in Japan. Yet still, when I turned to page A-10 of today’s Pittsburgh Post Gazette, I said those words out loud. ”What’s wrong with this picture?”
laksa lust
Often, when I’m traveling that horrendous thirty hours from Pittsburgh to Australia, I day dream about laksa. This Malaysian soup is worth the trip and I eat it whenever I can.
melting pot
Richard Florida ranks it as a city “where the kids are heading”. Melbourne, the second most populous city in Australia, with 4,000,000 residents, has also been ranked one of the top three most livable cities in the world by the Economist Group’s Intelligence unit, since 2002.
happy independence
Tonight I joined the throngs in downtown Pittsburgh and settled on the Clemente Bridge for the fireworks show. I’m used to a certain tone, a certain crowd and a certain reticence downtown.
the talent dividend summit
the talent dividend
My CEOs for Cities “cluster” has tackled a few big projects. This week will be a very big one.
the view from my window
The view from my window has changed over the last two years I’ve owned this view for four years now, but for the first two it was the same one the city had seen for the past twenty — a field of poorly maintained asphalt stacked with cars in the day and seedy events at night; some historic buildings, empty and too worn out to save.
