Comments on: Pittsburgh G20 nervousness: find update links here

By: Jim Wessel Walker

Jim Wessel Walker — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:43:47 +0000

Good background, Randy. Thanks for filling us in on developments that we who live in quieter parts of the world had been ignoring.

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Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:32:35 +0000

[...] (not a tech topic, but on everyone’s minds nonetheless). Randy Strothman has created a a semi-permanent page on his company’s blog on which he will post relevant Summit updates as they are made available. (Love the page title, [...]

By: Bill Schlageter

Bill Schlageter — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:20:32 +0000

Nice site..thanks for sharing it.

http://pittsburghisart.org/ is
an new G-20 informational site created by members of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council that you might want to ad to your list of “official” sites.

By: Randy Strothman

Randy Strothman — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:57:31 +0000

I agree Jerry. Are there companies in Pittsburgh that can take on such a huge and unusual structure?

By: Jerry Hughes

Jerry Hughes — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:55:30 +0000

I was shocked this morning to see that a Tennessee company got the contract to power wash the convention center. The G20 should bring income to Pittsburgh for Pittsburghers.

By: Randy Strothman

Randy Strothman — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:37:35 +0000

Yes, I think that’s a big piece of the impact: protesters and the response to them. Then there’s just plain tight security that affects us too. Kind of like TSA at the airport. Not to be scary, but there will also be terrorism experts on duty. A friend who has some FBI citizen training mentioned discussion about the train tracks that wrap around the Convention Center, for example.

By: Kevin Smay

Kevin Smay — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:31:27 +0000

The key will be how law enforcement and security respond to events. There will be an element looking to generate footage of crowds with fire hoses turned on them, or individuals being dragged by police. Take a play from Ben Franklin’s book (I know that’s that other PA city) and suffer fools gladly.