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Jen Roupe
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Proud Pittsburgher (she/her/hers/yinz). Views and opinions shared are my own.
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If you only read one column of mine, let it be this one. Children built Pittsburgh too. In our steel mills, coal mines, factories & streets where they worked 12-hour days at dangerous jobs, sometimes losing limb and life. I found some of their voices. www.pittsburghmagazine.com/dahn-memory-...
The Children Who Built Pittsburgh
The stories of individuals who worked hard, dangerous jobs to build Pittsburgh — many of these individuals were children.
www.pittsburghmagazine.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Happy Birthday Mister Rogers
You were the best neighbor ❤️

We miss you more than ever 🥹
March 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Octavia E. Butler, the late-pioneering Black science fiction novelist who wrote about a wildfire from climate change starting on February 1, 2025, in her novel "Parable of the Sower," is buried in an Altadena cemetery. The cemetery caught fire, the LA Times reports.
January 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Caitlin Clark Supplements Rookie Salary By Taking Adjunct Professor Of Basketball Job
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Caitlin Clark Supplements Rookie Salary By Taking Adjunct Professor Of Basketball Job
December 31, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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Every December I take account of the best things that happened in Pittsburgh that year. Here is the list for 2024! It was indeed a good year.

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The 10 Best Things that Happened in Pittsburgh in 2024
Ketchup on all the big dills
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December 30, 2024 at 2:32 PM