Photo of the Day: Franco Harris During 2008 St. Patrick's Day Parade in Pittsburgh

Steelers Legend Franco Harris During the 2008 St. Patrick's Day Parade. Pittsburgh, PA March 15, 2008. Photo by Matthew David Carter

Franco Harris is a Hall of Fame American football player and a famous Pittsburgh Steeler.  The signature moment of his professional football career and the stuff of Pittsburgh sports legend was catching

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March 9th, 2010 | Category: Photo of the Day, Pittsburgh, Sports | Leave a comment

Photo of the Day: 2008 St. Patrick's Day Trampled Obama Sign

Trampled Obama Campaign Sign Following St. Patrick's Day Parade March 15, 2008 in Pittsburgh, PA. Photo by Matthew David Carter.

On March 15, 2008 I photographed the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Pittsburgh.  This large annual parade in Pittsburgh is one of the largest in the country, and this year it fell in the

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March 8th, 2010 | Category: American, Photo of the Day, Pittsburgh, Politics, Urban | Leave a comment

Friends of Wilderness Battlefield Receives Historic Preservation Award

For its advocacy in protecting and restoring historic Ellwood Manor, the Friends of Wilderness Battlefield, a civil war preservation, advocacy, and education non-profit received the Chairman’s Award for achievement in historic preservation by the Civil War Preservation Trust on Thursday March 4th, 2010. This marks the first time that this award, which is designated to recognize

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March 5th, 2010 | Category: American, Architectural History, Current Events, Historic Architecture of the Day, Preservation, U.S. Civil War | Leave a comment

Review of ECONned by Yves Smith

Outsourced to James Kwak of the excellent Baseline Scenario blog who writes that Yves Smith in ECONned :

describes how trading in CDOs built out of mortgage-backed securities drove mortgage lending, and not the other way around. In the conventional account, unscrupulous lenders and investment banks were the creators of those toxic assets; in Smith’s account,

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March 5th, 2010 | Category: Business, Current Events, Economy, Politics, Public Policy, Reviews | Leave a comment

Imagine a Progressive United States

Well, some jokesters did and created a fake New York Times website complete with articles.

Headlines include such gems as:

“National Health Insurance Act Passes”

“Nation Sets Its Sites on Building a Sane Economy”

and

“Troops to Return Immediately”

November 13th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: Politics | Comments are closed
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