Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
It would seem I've always had a fascination for trains. As a young boy, I could not get enough of them.
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Holiday Herald: What model trains lacked in realism didn't really matter
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
The urban farm -- a novel, even whimsical, idea a few years ago in Pittsburgh -- is now a movement so fully fledged that a neighborhood without one seems almost an anomaly.
Continue here: Cities, including Pittsburgh, are turning green with urban farms
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Years after leaving the Pittsburgh area, Robert Neumann liked to keep abreast of hometown happenings in Jeannette.
More here: Obituary: Robert Neumann / Jeannette businessman loved model trains and hometown
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
NEW YORK -- The Times Square street vendors who alerted the police May 1 to a smoking Nissan Pathfinder seemed to be acting on a combination of their streetwise instincts, their sense of civic duty, their military training and the advice of Allen Kay.
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Ad agency catch phrase factored into foiling NYC plot
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Only four passenger trains daily visit Pittsburgh's Amtrak station, taking five hours or longer to trek across mountains to Harrisburg and Washington, or nine hours through the night to Chicago.
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Rail stimulus paltry for Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
( University of Pittsburgh ) A series of tours will provide journalists with behind-the-scenes information and images needed to tell the story of how Pittsburgh has rebuilt its economy.
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Transforming Pittsburgh's economy: Technology and science tours to media covering Pittsburgh summit (EurekAlert!)
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
Some people are just born "naturals" at their chosen life's work. You can count Thomas B. Henry among those people.
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Obituary: Thomas B. Henry / Founded Chevrolet dealership in Bakerstown (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
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