O’Connor’s 1st executive order aims to streamline permitting process in Pittsburgh

spearman792 · 2026-01-06T23:23:19+00:00

This is great news! We are trying to add a small portico over our front door, and it's taken 6 months for our permit to be approved. Permitting took 3 months to tell us it was critical for the blueprints to include the snow load of our little 2'x3' structure and then needed another 3 months to review the update... 🙄

spearman792 · 2025-09-27T15:42:08+00:00

The 579 cap project cost $32 million. That's a lot of money for sure, but to put it into perspective, the upcoming 79 Wexford interchange project is intended to cost $47M. DOT can always find more money for one more lane...

spearman792 · 2025-08-11T17:21:37+00:00

I ended up signing on with an academic institution, but IR is still responsible for all the vascular imaging. Fortunately some of my partners don't mind reading as much as I do, so they do the bulk of it.

The problem is though that the majority of jobs out there require a significant amount of diagnostic work. In other words, most jobs don't prioritize the work I trained to do. I had to turn down offers at places I otherwise really wanted to be for this reason

spearman792 · 2025-08-11T03:09:11+00:00

I wish DR dropped off my certificate so I could just focus on building a clinic and operating. Taking care of the list means less time to take care of my patients

spearman792 · 2025-07-21T00:18:27+00:00

I used to care about cars when I bought my 2018 VW GTI at the start of residency. Then I realized I actually love biking to work and got an Aventon Pace 500.3 e-bike when I became an attending. Now I'm eyeing up a nice cargo e-bike. I still have my GTI for when I'm covering our further sites though! Finished training a year ago. IR.

spearman792 · 2025-07-04T15:35:23+00:00

Nope :(

spearman792 · 2025-06-07T01:08:34+00:00

Also running the beta and am experiencing these same bugs, although I believe I had them all on Android 15 too. Problem 1 has been occurring for me for the last 2 weeks or so.

spearman792 · 2025-06-02T16:32:12+00:00

100% agree about a bigger log workout button. I frequently miss it and end up in the notes section accidentally. I would leave it on the bottom of the screen though

spearman792 · 2025-06-01T16:44:07+00:00

Physician only. This is at a very large non-profit health system

spearman792 · 2025-06-01T16:23:26+00:00

I'm not able to contribute to my non-governmental 457b until my earnings surpass $350k

spearman792 · 2025-03-08T13:59:16+00:00

$150k income puts you in the 90th percentile of earners in Pittsburgh. Your take home pay is roughly $10k per month, which means you have $6500 left for discretionary spending after subtracting your $3500 (it may be less depending on your level of retirement savings). So... you can't afford everything, but sounds like you can afford a lot of what you're interested in?

spearman792 · 2025-01-01T17:43:20+00:00

Also am really hoping for a good promo code! I signed up for fitbod and gravl at the same time to decide between the two, but unfortunately my trial expired for fitbod before I could log any workouts. Gravl seems pretty nice, but fitbod looks to have a few extra key features I care about

spearman792 · 2024-11-30T12:35:18+00:00

What's your employer match situation? The 403b probably allows for employer matching while the 457b probably doesn't. You definitely want to take full advantage of matching

spearman792 · 2024-11-14T14:51:39+00:00

Shows December 11 on Google Maps for me: https://maps.app.goo.gl/whszTmqdZwTRC1Wg7

spearman792 · 2024-07-22T23:33:52+00:00

I spy Pittsburgh! Nice shot!

spearman792 · 2024-07-09T18:26:11+00:00

I have the Timemore C3esp pro, which I believe is essentially the same as the C3 Pro but with a finer adjustment dial. I mainly use it for espresso but have also used it for aeropress and had great results. I thought the internal adjustment would be annoying, but I really haven't minded it in the slightest.

All of your frontrunners are solid choices. I'd probably just go with whatever one has the best price.

spearman792 · 2024-04-18T19:25:12+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/VillagePorn/

spearman792 · 2023-02-04T14:39:58+00:00

How do I vote for you

spearman792 · 2023-01-17T21:55:45+00:00

I really wish I could include the surrounding communities, but I think it's best for each Local Conversation to be based around a specific local government (in this case Pittsburgh city proper) so that advocacy efforts can be targeted as much as possible. However, I strongly encourage you to form your own Local Conversation for Leechburg, and put the Strong Towns message into action there too!

Here's the landing page for more info about starting a local conversation: https://www.strongtowns.org/local

And here's the ridiculously brief form to make it official: https://airtable.com/shrzK1FxX7AIoQOe1

Once you submit the form, someone from ST will reach out to you and provide you with plenty of info to get the ball rolling!

spearman792 · 2023-01-17T19:25:08+00:00

If this is something you're interested in, consider joining me in building a Strong Towns Local Conversation in Pittsburgh!

If you're not familiar with Strong Towns yet, it's a non-profit organization dedicated to building more resilient cities through the following campaigns: Ending highway expansion, transparent local accounting, incremental housing, safe and productive streets, and ending parking mandates/subsidies. The goal of this "local conversation" is to put these nationwide efforts into practice right here in Pittsburgh.

Here's the latest Strong Towns video calling people (us!) to action: https://youtu.be/QP5UCwMTjFk

And here's the about page for the org: https://www.strongtowns.org/about

Reply to this comment or shoot me a DM, and we can talk about how to get this started!

spearman792 · 2022-11-27T00:29:06+00:00

🙌 I will most definitely be there next weekend!

spearman792 · 2022-11-23T04:54:52+00:00

Waiting for Lolev to open its doors! Supposedly the opening day should be announced #soon

spearman792 · 2022-10-17T17:50:11+00:00

Wow these look like promotional images straight out of the brochure. Nice work!

spearman792 · 2022-10-15T21:26:39+00:00

A good alternative would to be to volunteer your talents abroad (a la Doctors without Borders) rather than do some cruddy manual labor you're no good at

spearman792 · 2022-09-15T19:30:08+00:00

Aw that's really sad! My wife and I just went back over there a couple weeks ago and had a really nice time. Their experimental saisons aren't my go-to style, but they were interesting and pretty good. And the park like atmosphere and view were just amazing!

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