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-Agent Ska-

Dear Readers,

In a week's time I am leaving for Italy. This blog will be going on hiatus until may.

I will still be involved with The Women's Blogger Society in some capacity. I'm hoping to put together some conferences about women and blogging.

Perhaps I will see you around this little town we know as the Burghosphere.

Thank you for reading, you've been a great audience.


Sincerely,

Secret Agent Ska

P.S. I was gonna say, is that Agent Ska?!?!

You'd have to go to The Boss for that answer.



Until May 5th, this has been Agent Ska Reporting.

CBA Events

Upcoming meetings:

Tuesday 12/11/07, 2pm
Planning Commission Hearing on Arena Master Plan
200 Ross St., 1st Floor
(The One Hill CBA Coalition and allies will be testifying and requesting that planning commission members vote NO on the master plan if a CBA is not in place.)

Thursday 12/13/07, 6pm
Martin Luther King School
50 Montgomery Place (Northside)
(The Northside United CBA Coalition will be presenting it's findings from over 25 meetings and 1000 surveys from community members regarding the positive & negative impacts of the casino)

Downtown this morning

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East of Liberty: Part II

Hyperboy Media has come out with another great youtube-style documentary about Pittsburgh.



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Brookings Institute has announced that Pittsburgh is in the top 10 "most walkable cities". The "Walking Pittsburgh" blog is a great resource for information and pictures of places to walk around in Pittsburgh.

Walking Pittsburgh's Blog

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The Domestic Violence Ordinance

Passed today by a unanimous vote of City Council.

I'd really like to congratulate Gloria who has led a really consistent campaign to make sure that this happened. Good work, Gloria.

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Luke Victory Party: Setting up a non-profit just to pay for it.

The Pist-Gazette has an interesting post today, aptly named, "Interesting".

"The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Ravenstahl will not be using campaign funds to pay for his Carnegie Music Hall inauguration soiree. Instead, a “nonprofit” organization is being formed to foot the bill.

I presume this means anyone can contribute any amount, bypassing all campaign contribution laws since they are not contributing to a campaign. Additionally, the public will never know who contributed what since “nonprofit” contributor lists do not have to be published."- Char, Pist-Gazette

Yikes. It's just an inauguration...as if it was a difficult victory. This is all so ridiculous.

-Agent Ska-

Warning: Small Business Owner about to sound really uptight

HOW CAN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE'S WEBSITE NOT BE WORKING?

MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE CORPORATION BUREAU?

...and they wonder why businesses aren't flourishing in Pittsburgh. I NEED TO DOWNLOAD FORMS! I HAVE THINGS TO DO!

GRRRRR.

This is what I call exemplary government.

Sincerely,

Agent Ska

Gender Politics: Part II

There has been a lot of discussion about voting for Hillary because you're a woman or Barack because you're black [edit: a commenter commented that he is only partially black]. Someone sent me an article about this today.

I just want Michelle Obama to run. I'm writing her in.

That's my conclusion.

-Agent Ska-

Dear Pittsburgh City Government,

I have an idea for you and I. As you might have read, Agent Ska's post about a young person coming back to Pittsburgh was in the City Paper this week. This got me to thinking.

If I can make fedoras and Obama slogans trendy...I might be able to make young people- coming-back-to-Pittsburgh fashionable, too.

Here's the catch: It's going to cost you. Did you really think I'd do this for free? Have you seen my taxes? I think not.

Here's the plan: For every young person who comes back to Pittsburgh and cites Agent Ska as their friend (and possible reason for coming back --that's a relative idea, obviously), the city gives me (and only me), a percentage of the taxes paid by that friend.

I know that you are nodding in enthusiasm and excitement, Pittsburgh City Government.

I look forward to hearing back from you.

Sincerely,

Agent Ska

Urban Outfitters: Trying to Copy Agent Ska

I was at Urban Outfitter's yesterday...I usually don't buy very much there but I like looking around.

First of all, they had many fedoras and they were selling cheaper turntables. New York Times (and Agent Ska's blog post) : Right again.

Secondly, they're still trying to be really cool and political. Some of their shirts are really, really stupid. However, I find it interesting how many shirt-makers are making Hillary shirts.

They had one that said, "Hot for Hillary"-- I can't find the picture on the website. But I did find a second one about Hillary.




I was looking through their website, when I came across their Obama one. It upset me as they stole the slogan from my blog. Yes, my fake screen name that reads, "Obama is yo mama", well, they weren't quite cool enough to get it right. But here it is.




Conclusion: Urban Outfitter's needs to give credit where credit is due: To Agent Ska dot blogspot dot com. I've had that slogan on my blog since I started my blog last year.

The End.

-Agent Ska-

Clinton Situation

Years of stuffing envelopes and nothing this exciting has ever happened to me.

Tonight's Decision: If I run a campaign, I'm going to pay POG to take it hostage. I will pay for the road flares myself.

That was an awesome story today and I'm glad he didn't actually have a bomb. It was great tv.

pace.

-Agent Ska-

Night Time Downtown

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