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All Aboard – 2 Weeks to Get Some Pittsburghers on the Millennials Train

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The route of the inaugural Millennial Trains Project trip

If you follow IheartPGH on Facebook and Twitter you may have noticed that I've been linking to the Millennial Trains Project. The Millennial Trains Project is a cross country train trip this August that will start in San Francisco and end in Washington, DC.  The train will stop in 10 cities over 10 days.  The Millennial Trains project was founded by Patrick Dowd (not the Pittsburgh city councilman Patrick Down) who helped to organize a similar project, Jagriti Yatra, when he was a Fulbright … [Read more...]

Following the G-20 Online

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Image by Getty Images via Daylife I have been at the August Wilson Center yesterday and today.  Oxfam and USCAN (US Climate Action Network) have set up a media center set up here - they are doing press briefings hourly on different topics. They have done a great job of providing info and photos and wireless to bloggers - we are a block from the convention center. Check out the coverage at http://g20voice.org/ and photos here - … [Read more...]