G20 Summit in Pittsburgh!?

This is quite an exciting honor for the city!  There will be chaos in Pittsburgh this September for reasons other then my 25th birthday.

At the Pittsburgh Summit, President Barack Obama will meet with leaders representing 85 percent of the world’s economy to take stock of progress made since the most recent summits and discuss further actions to assure a sound and sustainable recovery from the global economic and financial crisis, officials said.

Among the selling points: “Pittsburgh has really been a model for an economic turnaround,” he said, noting the smokestacks-to-knowledge transformation of the regional economy and the development of environmentally friendly “green” job sectors.

It doesn’t hurt, he said, that “President Obama is a big Pittsburgh fan in so many ways, and we’re glad of it.”

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~ by Kevin Topolski on May 28, 2009.

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