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Happy 90th Birthday...Radio

Sheila Shayon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sheila Shayon

Ninety years ago last week, 100 people heard that first KDKA broadcast that Warren G. Harding defeated James M. Cox. Happy 90th birthday Radio, the original Wi-Fi, and thanks for the roots, the memories, and the lessons learned.

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What is Work? Small Town Hospital Closing Opens Health-Care Debate

Sharon Glassman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Sharon Glassman

The closing of a cornerstone institution in the small but much talked about town of Braddock, PA, raises an important question: How should a community hospital work, really?

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Yvonne Zanos Dies Of Cancer: Famed KDKA Reporter Dead At 60

post-gazette.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yvonne Zanos, KDKA-TV's consumer reporter whose joyful personality burst through TV screens during her popular product test reports, died this morning...

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Fred Honsberger Dies At 58

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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Pittsburgh radio host Fred Honsberger has died at the age of 58. Honsberger, a 30-year veteran of Pittsburgh station KDKA, died at his home. "The NE...

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