I just returned from a long business trip in Denver, Colorado. My PDA refused to work with blogger, so I wasn't able to make any updates, and I didn't really have the time anyways. Let's see if I can recap what I missed the past week and a half.
1. West End school bus stop may be moved over concerns about sex offender.
According to this Post-Gazette Article, a local parent found out through the Megan's Law Website, that a convicted sex offender was living a few feet away from a school bus stop. Kudos to that parent for being proactive in this case.
2. Residents worried about strip club plans near Station Square
According to these articles on KDKA and the Post-Gazette, local residents are opposing a strip club that will be on West Carson street. Look, I understand the arguments of these residents, but this location is in a non-residential area. There aren't going to be any children just walking by. As far as I'm concerned, this area is starting to look blighted, and anything going in there will be better than it is now.
I do find it interesting that they are placing the club next to a center for recovering alcoholics. I'm sure that is the type of temptation these people are looking to avoid.
3. Local spots serve as setting for Kevin Smith film
As long as we are on the subject of strip clubs, we may as well mention that Zack and Miri Make a Porno is opening up this weekend. Yinz guys probably remember Main Street closing down for a while when the film was shooting. Part of it was shot on Main Street and inside the West End Cafe. I think I will be going to check it out. Here is the Post Gazette Article.
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Thank goodness you are for the Strip Club. I think this club will be a benefit for the neighborhood. It will be great and provide employment for many young people.
That's funny. Benefit for the neighborhood? I think this was a joke...I hope.
I didn't necessarily say that I was FOR the strip club, I'm just not COMPLETELY against it. I just don't like how some people that were interviewed on the news were acting like this is in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Look the club is on Carson Street, in a business district, where there is virtually zero foot taffic. I stated that I would rather have a strip club in the building than have it be abandoned and an eyesore. I also am completely against it being built next to a center for recovering alcoholics. That's just wrong on so many levels.
If the owner is really going to have it be a higher end establishment, then it would probably be a a higher end clientele. I don't agree with the argument that its going to bring drugs, prostitution, etc. into the neighborhood. That stuff is ALREADY there. Walk into the Lorenz Cafe on a Friday night and you will see much worse than what will be going on at this club.
That being said, I would rather not have this club there, but if it happens, it's not the end of the world.
It's no joke. This will have benefits for the neighborhood. For example, if your family or close associate or lover needed a job.. there you go... One more employer in Pittsburgh.
"I don't agree with the argument that its going to bring drugs, prostitution, etc. into the neighborhood"
Yes that and did you see that one dumb cluck on the news with the other tales of woe? He said this would also bring elements of rape and murder into the area. What a tard. That ignorant fool was just grandstanding for the cameras, like he was the pope of Elliot or something.
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