Tube City Almanac

January 28, 2009

Personal Note

Category: Pointless Digressions || By

I'm currently recovering from the dreaded lurgy, which may have been brought on by reading the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission's annual reports, or possibly from examining U.S. Census numbers for Cranberry Township from 1940 to the present. Regular updates resume shortly.

Meanwhile, Alert Reader Frank sends along this press release, which he calls a "major announcement." I'm surprised it didn't get more attention:

U. S. STEEL TO RELOCATE COKE PLANT

     PITTSBURGH, Jan. 28, 2009 --- United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) announced today that it plans to relocate the coke works of its U. S. Steel division from Clairton, Pa., to the company's corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pa. The relocation will take place gradually over the next several months.
     As part of the move the UPMC sign atop the company's headquarters building will be removed so a billowing smokestack can be installed.
     Mayor Luke Steelerstahl will permanently keep his football season name in honor of the move. The mayor says the clouds of smoke will transform downtown into an industrial icon, what he calls "the very smokestack of our great nation. The smoke which will waft over downtown will return Pittsburgh to the WWII industrial greatness we once had."
     He adds that the scattered citizens of Steeler Nation will be tempted to move back home.
     Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato says plans are underway to transform the former Clairton site into a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant.

I think Frank may be funning me, but I'm too loopy from cough medicine to argue.






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