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Kendra Whitlock Ingram is the new Pittsburgh Cultural Trust CEOA native of Scranton and graduate of Duquesne University, the Cultural Trust’s new leader returns to Pittsburgh from Milwaukee where she led the Marcus Performing Arts Center. Q: What’s the most interesting thing about your job? A:A big part of my job is seeing performances of many …

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People Pittsburgh Tomorrow

100 Pittsburgh Leaders

by PQ Staff

We asked 100 top leaders across Pittsburgh to respond in 100 words or fewerto this question: According to the U.S. Census, in 2021 the Pittsburgh MSA had the inauspicious distinction of having the highest natural population loss — more deaths than births — of any metro area in the country. Pittsburgh lost 10,838 people, followed …

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People Pittsburgh Tomorrow

I was born in Louisiana, one of twin boys, in 1950, the product of my father’s second marriage. At the time, my mother was 33 years old and my dad was 61. My father’s father — my grandfather — was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1843 and, as a baby, came to this country to …

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People Pittsburgh Tomorrow

100 Pittsburgh Leaders

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People Pittsburgh Tomorrow

100 Pittsburgh Leaders

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People Pittsburgh Tomorrow

100 Pittsburgh Leaders

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100 Pittsburgh Leaders

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100 Pittsburgh Leaders

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Arrivals People

DeCardy, Cohen, Ingram, Merson, McKinney, Bondoc, Myers, Hammond

by PQ Staff

Chris DeCardy becomes president of The Heinz Endowments in April. Most recently, DeCardy was acting CEO with the San Francisco-based ClimateWorks Foundation, leading a team of researchers, strategists and collaborators working on climate science. Previously, he served as vice president and director of programs with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, which awards $340 million in annual grants in …

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Efforts So Far Haven’t Worked

by Jeffery Fraser

Another year has passed in which more southwestern Pennsylvanians moved out of the region than newcomers arrived. The decades-long trend continues to slowly drain people from the region and frustrate ambitions of boosting its population. Southwestern Pennsylvania is a chronic loser in the flow of people between states that offer consistently warmer weather. And the …

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People

Noteworthy Spring ’23

by PQ Staff

Après Ski Bar For restaurateur Rick DeShantz, a little imagination has gone a long way — and turned into a lot of fun for Pittsburgh this winter as he opened Après Ski Bar at Butcher and the Rye. It’s several tiers of Swiss-themed spaces, with fur-covered lodge furniture, antler chandeliers, assorted fondues on the menu …

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People

Get Ready for Pittsburgh Tomorrow

by Douglas Heuck

In the spring issue three years ago, I wrote a long essay about the need for a big plan to reverse Greater Pittsburgh’s downward economic and demographic trends. A Pittsburgh friend called it my Magnum Opus, the product of 35 years of journalistic efforts here, much of it aimed at moving this region ahead. In …

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People

How I Became Ensnared in the Pittsburgh Web

by David M. Feehan

How did a native of Minneapolis, a Viking fan, fall in love with Pittsburgh? It’s a long story, but a good one. In 1968, I was assigned as a newly minted VISTA Volunteer to the community action program in McKeesport’s Third Ward, a tough but lively section of town. Hanging out on Walnut Street, in …

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People Profiles

What Do I Know? Sam Hazo

by Jeff Sewald

without a doubt, the course of my life was determined largely by my upbringing. My mother died when I was 6, and while my father was still around, my brother, Robert, and I were taken into the care of our mother’s parents and they raised us, with significant help from my mother’s aunt. My mother’s …

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People Regional News

Pandemic Learning Loss

by Julia Fraser

For decades, educators fretted over how to prevent “summer slide,” the learning loss that students often experience over summer vacation. The COVID pandemic raised the stakes. Mounting evidence suggests that periodic school closings, the abrupt shift to remote learning and other disruptions profoundly set back students’ education, accelerating learning loss into a national crisis — …

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Pittsburgh’s Gentleman Scholar

by Maxwell King

I wasn’t sure when i knocked on the door that I was really at the right house. I thought I had the correct address, but it had been a long trip. I took the passenger ferry to Martha’s Vineyard and then rode my bicycle 10 miles out to West Tisbury. And then I had to hunt …

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A Sailing Odyssey, Part I

by Douglas Heuck

When I was a boy during summers in northern Michigan, there was one adventure that dwarfed all others: sailing to the North Channel. It was a distant, mythic place of pristine beauty and wrecked boats where intrepid sailors matched their skills with the forces of nature — where islands had rattlesnakes, fish were huge, and …

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A Sailing Odyssey, The Conclusion

by Douglas Heuck

Killarney was our eastern apogee, where we spent the rainy day in the Killarney Mountain Lodge, had drinks by the fire and I taught the guys to play bridge. From there we started the long trek back, exploring the North Channel’s most beautiful places by day and playing bridge in the cozy cabin each night. …

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Obituaries People

Arkus, Diana, Talotta, McCullough, DeLuca, Samet, Coraluppi, Baer, Shea, Rust, Kernick, Henne, Silvestre, Fennell, Celli

by PQ Staff

Jane Arkus, 93As an advertising executive, Arkus helped to create the iconic “chipped-chopped ham” ads for Islay’s. She joined Lando in 1951 as a copywriter and when the firm merged with Burson-Marsteller, she became its senior creative director. As a marketing consultant, Arkus worked to develop the Downtown Cultural District, WQED and the Urban League …

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