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The Points of Light Foundation was created in 1990 as a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. to promote the spirit of volunteerism described by U.S. President George H. W. Bush in his 1989 inaugural address, [3] "I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the ...
On May 19, 2015, WPMY quietly changed its call letters to WPNT for the landmark "Point" confluence of the Ohio, Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in downtown Pittsburgh, which previously appeared in the market nearly three decades earlier on FM 92.9, now WLTJ. Coincidentally, WLTJ also shares its transmitter facilities with WPGH-TV and WPNT.
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Pittsburgh is home to the first commercial radio station in the United States, KDKA 1020AM, the first community-sponsored television station in the United States, WQED 13, the first "networked" television station and the first station in the country to broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, KDKA 2, and the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Located across the building is Wood Street Station, a subway station on Pittsburgh's light rail network. In 2007, the international law firm K&L Gates entered into an agreement to become the largest tenant in the building by 2010. In 2009, extensive construction began on the building lobby, the exterior facade of the first two floors and the ...
In 2022, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh found that women of color who “frequently suppress” their anger were 70 percent more likely to experience carotid atherosclerosis, a ...
In 1983, the magazine was drawn into a battle between staff members regarding WQED's involvement with Nancy Reagan's anti-drug campaign. [5] In 1990, the magazine was the subject of a libel lawsuit brought by two police officers after publishing an article about the disappearance of a Pittsburgh man; the suit was settled for $75,000. [6]
East Pittsburgh U.S. Post Office 1916 James A. Wetmore: 701 Linden Avenue East Pittsburgh 2014 Ebenezer Baptist Church 1931 2001 Wylie Avenue Hill, the 1979 Demolished Edgar Thomson Works, United States Steel: 1875 (since) North Braddock 1989 Edgewood: 1888 (incorporated) The town as a whole. Edgewood 1998 Edgeworth Club 1930–31