Pittsburgh
Conflict Kitchen's Palestinian programming under siege (Hyperallergic)
The BBC's mobile news bureau experiment stops in Pittsburgh (Essential Pittsburgh)
Blame this Pittsburgh official for daylight savings time (Government Executive)
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra plays it by ear when hiring musicians (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
Cleveland
Cleveland voters pass law that eliminates all city traffic cameras (USA Today)
Cleveland suburb, Maple Heights, Ohio also votes to remove traffic cameras (Cleveland.com)
Study projects Cleveland's downtown may have 23,000 residents in 5 years (ABC 5)
Walkable townhome development planned in Lakewood, Ohio (Cleveland.com)
Cuyahoga County expected to borrow $168 million to repair and spruce up government buildings (Cleveland Scene)
West Virginia and Appalachia
18 year old freshman elected to house of delegates becomes youngest state lawmaker in U.S.
(CBS DC)
As coal jobs vanish, miners search or new careers (Associated Press)
Other Urbanism and Architecture news
NYC's hugely expensive Fulton Center transit hub opens to riders (NY1)
Americans aren't as car dependent as you might think (Streetsblog USA)
New Urbanism Film Festival kicks of in Los Angeles (Streetsblog LA)
Feeding the homeless: Act of charity or a crime? (My Fox Houston)
Airbnb finally adds a "don't secretly film guests" policy (BetaBeat)
How wearable tech will transform walkability of our cities (Tech Cocktail)
Does Pheonix have a soul? (AZ Central)
An Etsy co-founder and his wife have big plans for Albuquerque (CityLab)
Is America's civic-architecture inherently racist? (Intercultural Urbanism)
In symbolic vote, 80% of Catalans support independence from Spain (Yahoo News)
Why some places still have plenty of pay phones (CityLab)
The rise of invisible unemployment (CityLab)
Germany celebrates 25th anniversary of fall of the Berlin Wall (Wall Street Journal)
Other arts and archeology news
A treasure hunt for undiscovered American artists (CBS Sunday Morning)
Brooklyn art center uses Airbnb to fund its programming (Hyperallergic)
Former director of NY's Frick Museum speaks out against expansion plan (Artnet)
Sotheby's Q3 revenue drops 12.7 percent (ArtNews)
Qatari sheikh, once one of the world's top art collectors dies suddenly
(The Art Newspaper)
Norwegian architects fight to save historic National Gallery (The Art Newspaper)
U.K. copyright laws prevent display of hundred year old soldier's letters and other historic documents (Reason)
Islamists blow up church dedicated to victims of the Armenian genocide (Public Radio of Armenia)
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