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EVENTS
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·
Free
Information Session on Western Pennsylvania Nonprofit Health Alliance Program
·
Christmas
Tree Recycling Collection
·
Johnson
Institute Lecture: Government Secrecy in the Information Age
·
Celebrate
The Works Of Walter C. Kidney With Selected Readings
·
"Economic
Agenda for the Great Lakes Region" Featuring John Austin, Brookings
Institution Sr. Fellow
·
Save
the Date: Ready to Be Heard: Advocacy Training for Women
·
Save
the Date: 6th Annual Southwestern
Pennsylvania Smart Growth Conference
LAND
USE NEWS AROUND THE REGION
·
Plum raises development
impact fee
·
Traffic impact fees
introduced
·
Planning for future begins
now
·
Burgettstown group
focused on future
·
Wal-Mart traffic study
snubs Irwin officials
RESOURCES
·
City gets first payment
from nonprofit coalition
·
Public comment period
underway regarding convention center line deferment
·
Long list of bad bridges
doesn't alarm PennDOT PA is ranked
third worst in the nation
·
Cars don't always spell
mobility.
·
A Conversation [about
biodiesel] with Nathaniel Doyno
·
Design judges named for
West End pedestrian bridge
·
Clean Communities On The
Move: A Partnership-Driven Approach to Clean Air and Smart Transportation
·
Database a new tool for
city CIS can show trouble spots, as well as neighborhood pluses
·
The role of local
government in smart growth
·
India, China, US,
Australia talk on C02
·
Ford issues climate change
report
·
The year of unnatural
disasters
·
Workforce development
and smart growth
·
City adds 3 green
buildings in 2005
·
Say 2006 will be 'year
of integrity' for state Legislature
·
Poverty widespread in
Pennsylvania, new report finds
·
Engaging the private
sector in the Clean Development Mechanism
·
Stronger farmers
markets will make us healthier while preserving landscapes and family farms
Wednesday,
January 11
1:00
pm – 3:00 pm
Radisson
Hotel Showroom
RSVP:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=429501541111.
Information:
www.pano.org/benefits_health.php.
Enrollment in the health insurance program has already begun. To receive a
rate quote, please contact Heather Parker at HRH at (412) 456-7257, or call
Jennifer Ross at PANO at (717) 236-8584 or email at jenn@pano.org.
Saturday,
January 14
10:00
am – 2:00 pm
Construction
Junction
Point
Breeze,
$1.
No trees in plastic bags accepted
More
information:
The National Christmas Tree Association estimates 25-30 million trees are
sold in the
Thursday
January 19
4:30
pm to 6:00 pm
Register at www.johnsoninstitute-gspia.org/events.asp
Free
Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served.
Are governments increasingly ‘hiding’ information or are
communications’ revolutions ending government secrecy?
Tuesday,
January 24
4:00
pm. - 5:30 pm
Soldiers
and
4141
R.S.V.P.
412-471-5808, ext. 527 or marylu@phlf.org
Walter C. Kidney (January 24, 1932 - December 1, 2005) was the author and
editor of more than 20 significant publications on regional history and
architecture. As the architectural historian of the
Thursday,
January 26
9:30
am
425
31st
Floor
Downtown
Information:
717-783-8025
The Transportation Funding and Reform Commission will be taking your
testimony (estimated-two minutes) at the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission on
Thursday, January 26, for
To Comment:
Request a form from Allen D. Biehler, P.E., Secretary of Transportation,
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05354/625079.stm
Wednesday, February 22
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
$25 members, $35 non-member $15 students (Please pay at the door, by cash
or by check made payable to "The Economic Club of Pittsburgh.")
Pre-registration soon via http://www.econclubpgh.org/index.html
Presented by The Economic Club of Pittsburgh in collaboration with:
Allegheny Conference on Community Development;
John Austin, Brookings Sr. Fellow share insights to this initiative to
improve the economic vitality of the
To this end, Brookings is assessing the economic and social challenges
faced by the region, and working with a wide range of leaders in the political,
corporate, civic, and academic sectors, to develop a pan-regional strategic
vision and action plan for how the meta-region can leverage its assets to
successfully pursue a high-road economic strategy. The analysis will be widely
disseminated to inform the region's business, political and opinion leadership,
and public policies among the states within the region.
In addition this analysis and recommendations will inform the debate
leading up to the 2008 Presidential campaign, which will hinge on the swing
states within the region, as well as the thinking and agendas of our current and
future federal officials.
Please join the Pittsburgh Economics Club in learning more about this
important effort, considering how this complements existing planning efforts,
and what's at stake in broadening our definition of 'region'.
Friday,
January 27
Saturday,
January 28
Contact
Kristin: kdeluca@chatham.edu
412-365-2986 for an early application
The Ready to Be Heard advocacy training program is designed to educate and
empower women to influence government through the development of advocacy skills
and the acquisition of knowledge about policy-making and political engagement.
This program is for women who want to learn how to affect policies at the
local and state levels, interact with public officials, and participate in
public affairs. The event will
include: professional lobbyists as trainers and panelists, tracks for for-profit
and non-profit professionals; networking; applied case studies and exercises;
and take-home resource guides. Whether
you are looking to lobby for social change or on behalf of your own small
business, this workshop is for you.
The Ralph Bangs Report: http://www.ucsur.pitt.edu/Benchmarks%20Women%27s%202004.htm
Coming Together to Revitalize Our Communities:
RenewSWPA Cross-Community and
Friday, May 19, 2006
Omni William Penn Hotel,
Keynote: David
Soule, Associate Director
Center for
Urban & Regional Policy, Northeastern University
Cost: Early
Registration: $30. Registration
after May 12: $40 (free to elected officials)
Call (412)
258-6642 for early registration
The 2006 SWPA Smart Growth Conference will address
strategies to revitalize the region's core communities and seek to identify a
set of policy opportunities around which there is consensus for collaboration.
Leading up to the conference, a series of
community forums will be orchestrated around the region to identify common barriers
and opportunities to redevelopment. Common needs and policy options identified
through the forums will be presented at the annual conference toward
developing consensus on policies to renew
Please mark your calendars for May 19 and
register early.
The annual Smart Growth conference and regional
forums are hosted by the Regional Coalition of Community Builders, Southwestern
Pennsylvania Commission,
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_407724.html
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_408018.html
Plum Borough is developing and one of the biggest
goals for 2006 is to make sure the borough is ready for all the residential and
commercial growth.
Council plans to do a needs analysis to determine
how much room the local government will need for the next 20 years. The
information will be use to decide how to develop some borough-owned property in
http://www.gatewaynewspapers.com/plumadvanceleader/56724/
A Burgettstown group that repeatedly has
tried to begin revitalizing the borough's
http://www.observer-reporter.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=8133&SectionID=6&SubSectionID=&S=1
As the reality of a new Wal-Mart begins to
materialize in
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_410190.html
The chairman of a coalition of nonprofit
organizations said yesterday that it had wired $4.57 million to the city of
"A lot of these organizations have tight
budgets," he said. "They saw a city that was in crisis and in great
need and wanted to help."
The fund released a list of 102 donating
organizations, but not the amounts each was donating.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06005/632763.stm
As a result of this review, Port Authority has
announced a plan to construct the 1.2-mile extension of the T under the
http://www.portauthority.org/grow/capital/NorthShore/new.asp
Under court order to adopt new rules to control
fine dust and soot in the air, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed
Tuesday to make no change in annual average limits on that type of pollution.
The EPA did propose reduction, though, of the allowed levels during any 24-hour
period.
http://www.reflector.com/news/content/shared/news/nation/stories/12/NATSOOT1221a_5STR.html
If the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
closed every one of its bridges classified as "structurally
deficient," there would be "chaos," according to PennDOT
Secretary Allen Biehler.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06001/630929.stm
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06002/631156.stm
http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1135678807324020.xml&coll=1
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05363/629443.stm
"
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/30057/
We need to focus on more effective ways to move
freight in our state or else we will pay a heavy price in terms of more
gridlocked highways, more highway damage and higher costs for businesses and
taxpayers.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05363/629261.stm
One month ago in the days leading up to a
possible transit strike here, Gov. Ed Rendell came to
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05362/628626.stm
If you’re stuck in traffic on
nathaniel@steelcitybiofuels.org.
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/archive.cfm?type=Local%20Vocal&action=getComplete&ref=5425
A seven-member panel of
judges has been selected to review design proposals for a pedestrian bridge to
be installed adjacent to the
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05362/628845.stm