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“We recall not too long ago when extraordinary monetary policies were reserved for recessions or financial panics.” —Lead editorial, The Wall Street Journal Whenever I pull out the long knives for our friends at Fedecbboj (central bankers at the Fed, the ECB, and Bank of Japan), some of my gentle readers inevitably send me notes reading more or …

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Contest Ideas

Ideas for a Better Pittsburgh: Semifinalists, Part V

by PQ Staff

Pittsburgh Quarterly invited readers and neighbors to offer up their best ideas for improving the region through the Spring 2019 Pittsburgh Tomorrow Contest. The 13 finalists chosen by the Pittsburgh Today advisory board were published online and in the Fall 2019 issue of the magazine. But the ideas of another nearly three dozen thinkers made …

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History

George Washington DID Sleep Here

by Barbara Eichenlaub

Forbes. Grant. Braddock. Duquesne. Washington. While these read like a list of Pittsburgh streets, they have immense significance to both Pittsburgh and its place in American and world history. But that history began around 50 miles away in Westmoreland County, in what is now the borough of Ligonier. It’s been kept alive and can be …

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Sports

The Lost Pulitzer

by Marino Parascenzo

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has won five Pulitzer Prizes. It should have been six. Editor’s Note: A former colleague and generally wonderful guy, Marino Parascenzo, has passed away at the age of 95. He was one of the nation’s best golf writers, having won the PGA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He wrote a number of excellent stories …

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Events

Steel City Awards Dinner Raises Record $950,000 for Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation

by PQ Staff

The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation’s 6th Annual Steel City Awards Dinner, held on Thursday, September 19, brought together senior leadership of the Marine Corps, Pittsburgh community members and scholarship recipients to recognize Marines by enabling their children to pursue college education. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”337″ display=”basic_thumbnail” thumbnail_crop=”0″] The Steel City Awards Dinner Committees announced that they …

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Events

Two-Night Animal Friends Gala Welcomes Jackson Galaxy

by PQ Staff

Animal Friends’ Black Tie & Tails was held on Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21. The two-night gala hosted more than 600 guests and raised more than $760,000 for Animal Friends’ lifesaving mission and programs during a one-of-a-kind event on Animal Friends’ campus. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”338″ display=”basic_thumbnail” thumbnail_crop=”0″] The animals were on their best …

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Education

Testing the Test

by PQ Staff

We’ve asked the leaders of a group of the region’s top independent schools to answer, in 200 words or fewer, the following question: “Whether it’s the PSSA tests that public schools are required to give or the latest changes in the SAT, there is often disagreement and sometimes controversy about the concept and emphasis on testing in …

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Sports

NFL Week Three: No Fantasy for the AFC North

by Matthew John Milligan

Close football games made for some exciting headlines after the week three Sunday slate. For the second week in a row, nine games were decided by one score or less, with a handful coming down to the final minute. More important, the quarterback carnage seems to have leveled off—all starters made it through Sunday unscathed. …

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Creative Capital

The Worst of All Possible Worlds

by Greg Curtis

“Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles. [All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.]” —Voltaire, “Candide” In the novella “Candide,” the cockeyed optimist Dr. Pangloss attempts to imbue his young mentee with Pangloss’s own incurable optimism. Candide does his best to remain hopeful, but as he travels …

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Regional News

Job Growth Slows

by Julia Fraser

For the second consecutive month, job growth has slowed in southwestern Pennsylvania, and its peer regions posted job growth rates that are among the lowest of the year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The silver lining is that jobs still grew in southwestern Pennsylvania and nearly all the of Pittsburgh Today’s 16 …

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Events

Gala Kicks Off PSO’s 124th Year

by PQ Staff

Glamour met classical at Heinz Hall on Saturday, September 14 when the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Gala celebration “A Night in Black and White” kicked off the organization’s 124th year. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”336″ display=”basic_thumbnail” thumbnail_crop=”0″] The annual event paired festive black-tie parties with spectacular music, raising nearly $1 million to benefit the symphony’s extensive Learning & …

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Events

PNC Community Mutt Strut Benefits Medical Service Dogs

by PQ Staff

Hundreds of humans and dogs descended on Frick Park Saturday, September 14 for the fourth annual PNC Community Mutt Strut hosted in Pittsburgh to benefit Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs Inc., an organization that trains medical service dogs to help veterans and people who suffer from PTSD, seizures and other medical issues. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”335″ …

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Events

Over 200 Works of Glass Art Sold at Art on Fire

by PQ Staff

Over 550 guests celebrated glass at the Art on Fire Celebration and Auction on Friday, September 13 at Nova Place. It was the most successful event to date benefiting Pittsburgh Glass Center (PGC). [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”334″ display=”basic_thumbnail” thumbnail_crop=”0″] Chairs Stacey and Andrew Rhodes joined honorary artist Shelley Muzylowski Allen and PGC co-founder Kathleen Mulcahy at …

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Contest Ideas

Ideas for a Better Pittsburgh: Semifinalists, Part IV

by PQ Staff

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Nature

Our Glacial Heritage—Moraine State Park

by Thomas Saunders

One of the largest and most popular parks in Pennsylvania is Moraine State Park in Butler County, an easy drive north of Pittsburgh. The park offers 28 miles of trails, boating, swimming, fishing, ice-fishing, hunting, horseback riding, cycling and educational programs. Overnight accommodations include both campsites and lakeside cabins. The story of the park begins …

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Homes

Sewickley Idyll

by Marylynn Uricchio

In a neighborhood known for its quiet streets, this one is especially peaceful, just a few leafy blocks of lovely homes with landscaped lawns and mature trees. That it’s just minutes from Sewickley’s village center was one reason the owners chose to live there. They had originally moved to a gracious old home in Sewickley …

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American Spirit

Anne is All About Cookies

by Kate Benz

Anne is going to bake some pizzelles, but you get the house tour first. “Bedroom, bathroom, living room, kitchen,” she says, passing by framed photos on the walls: pictures of her on her wedding day to George, 59 years ago, and their son, Ray, during every year of school. Anne and George live in Ray’s …

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Birds

The Great Migration Begins

by David Liebmann

Across the sky, everything is moving. Fall migration actually begins in August when the first waves of long-distance travelers begin to push south. Warblers, hummingbirds, waterfowl, shorebirds and hawks begin southward journeys. Some have nested and fledged chicks over the summer in sight of the Point, Flagstaff Hill, the Highland Park Bridge, the furnace chimneys …

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Sports

NFL Week Two: Quarterbacks Under Siege

by Matthew John Milligan

There are a number of variables that play into the Super Bowl equation. You have to win the close games—a win’s a win whether by 30 points or by 3. You have to be lucky—moments that happen in the blink of an eye can decide the fate of entire football games. Above all, you have …

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Events

Family House Polo Match Raises More Than $220,000

by PQ Staff

The 36th Annual Family House Polo Match on Saturday, September 14 drew close to 2,000 attendees to Hartwood Acres. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”333″ display=”basic_thumbnail” thumbnail_crop=”0″] In addition to a professional polo match, guests enjoyed a silent auction, children’s tent, shop vendors, libations and food truck garden. More than $220,000 were raised to directly support the Family …

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Creative Capital

A Few Disastrous Examples of Government Overspending

by Greg Curtis

“History is the most humbling of subjects.” —Wilfred M. McClay, Woodrow Wilson International Center As I’ve noted, the central thesis of Modern Monetary Theory is that a government that borrows in its own currency can never default because it can simply keep printing money to pay its debts. Hyperinflation, says MMT, can’t happen because as …

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