Category Archives: Pittsburgh

After finally getting someone in the city government to listen to me enough to plan a meeting, at least over email, I posted a note on the door of my building letting people know what I was doing, and asking for support from people at the parking meeting, since we would need to show that [...]

I was a little worried about how Pittsburgh would compare to Philadelphia, where I’d been living for 4 years. But I was trying to keep an open mind, since I had committed myself to this place over a beach with surfing every day of the year (UCSD). I arrived late the night before the “Immigration [...]

When I moved into my apartment in September, I had a number of problems. One of them was finding a spot for my car. This problem was mostly the fault of my landlord, but I can’t absolve the city of some blame for ridiculously not providing permit parking for my apartment, even though the nearby [...]

In a classic Pittsburgh moment, Steph’s car was broken into overnight. This alone could happen in any city, but here we have a special kind of criminal. And by special, i mean really really stupid. This guy tried to pry her passenger side front window open with something in mind and managed to shatter it. [...]