Essential Pittsburgh Archives show

Essential Pittsburgh Archives

Summary: Essential Pittsburgh was a daily news and talk show hosted by Paul Guggenheimer and produced by 90.5 WESA until July 2016. It featured community leaders and newsmakers in the arts, sciences, technology, business, health care, government and education.

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 The Hebrew Mamita Breaks Through Cultural Stereotypes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 989

Native New Yorker and slam poet Vanessa Hidary, a.k.a. the Hebrew Mamita grew up on Manhattan's culturally diverse Upper West Side, as a Sephardic Jew...

 Take a Road Trip and Tour of Presidential Homes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 658

Ohio and Virginia are both nicknamed the home of presidents. From Mount Vernon to Monticello presidential homes are great places to visit and learn...

 Breaking Down Corbett's Budget Proposal | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 721

Governor Tom Corbett delivered his fourth budget address Tuesday, calling for more than $900 million in additional state spending over the current...

 Dr. Jim Withers: Bringing Healthcare to the Streets | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 939

There is a doctor in Pittsburgh that still makes house calls, to a certain extent. For more than 20 years Dr. Jim Withers’s house calls have brought...

 Underneath The Lintel: A One-Man Show About Moving Forward & Looking Back | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 451

Pittsburgh based actor, Randy Kovitz, is the lone performer in a one-man play called Underneath the Lintel. The play is a journey of self discovery in...

 POLITICO Kicks Off Editorial Series Starting With Pittsburgh | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1070

POLITICO kicked off a yearlong, editorial series Tuesday, showcasing innovative ideas from cities across the nation and how they can be re-engineered...

 Heroin Addiction & the Social Stigma of Rehab | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1758

The recent rash of deaths from heroin laced with fentanyl, and the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman have brought attention to the need for more efficient...

 The Business of the Winter Olympics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 477

The 2014 Winter Olympics open this Friday. While they are taking place a world away, how will they impact local businesses? We posed that question to...

 Details on Local Fentanyl-Laced Heroin Overdoses | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 657

State police are still trying to track down the source of a drug that has killed as many as 23 people in Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler and Westmoreland...

 Right to Know Law Could Be Less Important with #OpenPgh | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1914

Pittsburgh plans to join 19 other American cities and counties in releasing city data for public use online. As the city works out the details of how...

 Business Lessons Learned in Gettysburg | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 462

Even though the battle of Gettysburg was fought more than 150 years ago, Point Park University business professor George Bromall says there are lessons...

 The Pitfalls of Predicting Weather a Season in Advance | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1056

From the earliest years of our nation’s history there have been two books published each year to guide gardeners, cooks, housekeepers and farmer’s on a...

 Seasonal Affective Disorder Not So Different From Non-Seasonal Depression | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1197

As soon as the clocks change each fall, do you feel like your body goes into hibernation mode? When winter mood shifts bring us to the point of...

 Weather Likely to Impact the Spectacle of Super Bowl XLVIII, But Not the Game | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 644

This Sunday, Super Bowl XLVIII pairs the AFC champion, the Denver Broncos with the NFC champion, the Seattle Seahawks. For the first time, the big game...

 Translating Trauma: The Challenge of Treating Refugees With PTSD | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 458

As a child in war-torn Somalia, Aweys Mwaliya saw friends and family killed in massacres. Fleeing the country, his family spent weeks walking to Kenya....

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