Blog of Josh Hall

So I subscribed to the Pittsburgh Penguins student rush text messages and every day there is a home game, they’ll text message you with how many tickets are available and any special offers there are for the game.  Here’s an average message: "PENS STUDENT RUSH: Pens vs Lightning 2nite @ 7:30.  A limited number of […]

I walked over to the North Side yesterday to play basketball at the Allegheny Center Alliance Church and I walked through the Allegheny Center mall…That place is like walking through the set of 28 days later.  There’s no one there.  Stores are empty.  THIS IS A MALL.  I felt like I was walking through some sort […]

Remember when the residents of Pittsburgh’s Hill District burned their own homes and community to the ground in the 60s?  I wasn’t there to remember it, but the people who burned the Luke Ravenstahl’s proposed plan for redevelopment were, but it seems like forgot.  These people are going ego-tripping, power-hungry, and ostentacious.  They’re stuck on […]

What the heck is up with all the bank robberies in the pittsburgh area recently?!?!  HOLY CRAP.  I think since they filmed that FX movie with Donny Wahlberg about a bank robbery in the city, there have been nearly a dozen.  It’s ridiculous.  You’d think after the first couple that other banks would be thinking, "hmmm, […]

[where: 15219] Who knew???  Outside.in called Pittsburgh the 3rd most bloggiest city after boston and philly.  I’m a little dissapointed that Philadelphia beat us, but what ever.  Pittsburgh is such a booming place for technology, and I attribute that mostly to carnegie mellon, but also UPMC doing so much research.  CMU has brought in so much […]

A lot of development going on in Pittsburgh, and a lot of that development is being met with conflict.  You’ve got citizens of east liberty saying that the development going on there is forcing the low-income families out of the city.  You’ve got Don Bardon screaming "stop picking on me!" to all the people that […]