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Chris Beichner is the MWCDC’s new Executive Director. This is an exciting day for the folks at the CDC office I’m sure.
Welcome Chris!
Read more about him here.

Have you ever gone to the CEO for Cities site? I don’t read it nearly often enough for having launched a community-oriented blog. There was a great piece called A Place to Be More of You  that struck me because it encapsulates the difficulty we’re having as we try to create a unifying vision for […]

Just a quick note to let everyone know that we have added a feature to each post that will make sharing 15211.org a little easier. You can now you can email a post to a friend AND/OR you can print out a post.
At the bottom of each post, under the category list and comment information […]

Our good friend Greg Hartley of NoSmokeDining.org sent out an email today breaking down the smoking ban issue. Check it out and take action!
Action Alert
Deadline: Monday, March 31
Next Tuesday (April 1) at 9:00 am, the six-member Smoke Free Pennsylvania Act (SB 246) Conference Committee is scheduled to consider (and very likely determine) legislation that could […]

Diane, left this message and I wanted to post it real quick for anyone interested.
I wanted to put this under latest news. A few of us will be cleaning around Bigbee Field this morning. Anyone that walks the area and want to join us we will be there about 11:00am.
If you have an hour this […]

Found this article that involves the South Hills High School. Things are looking good for this project!
The board also approved the transfer of the former South Hills High School on Mt. Washington to the Urban Redevelopment Authority. The district would not get any money from the transfer, but would save money in insurance and maintenance […]

It looks like Grandview Ave. is getting it’s annual clean-up this weekend. The Explorers Club of Pittsburgh will descend upon the hill to clean up all of the trash that tourists leave behind and throw over the viewing pods.
I think it’s great they come up here every year and make a big event of the […]

So this is the new and improved 15211.org
We told ourselves when we started this site that we were going to give it 6 months to see if it would catch on. Well it did. The response has been overwhelming.
To celebrate the growth of the site we decided to make some changes that we think […]

I saw a peculiar site today when I went to Foodland. Someone was cutting a small line in the concrete by the parking lot lights and digging up some electrical wiring.
Looks like they are finally going to replace the lights, or should I say fix the wiring to the current lights.
YEAH!!!!
All it took was new […]

15211.org reader, circusvue, submitted this tidbit on development way back when we asked for Mt. Washington stories. It got swept up in the comments somehow and we never posted it. Here it is!
From: circusvue
Re: Development  
Since you asked for comments, I’ll give you a few. These all have to do with public meetings and promises that were made […]