From Tracie Mauriello
8 p.m.
It's the question world leaders and foreign press alike have been asking all week: How did Pittsburgh transform itself from an old steel town to a 21st-century metropolis?
City and county officials are eager to give their version of how the city picked itself by its boot straps, but Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a self-proclaimed hockey historian, said he and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev know where the credit belongs.
"Everyone has been talking about the great resurgence of Pittsburgh in the last generation, and one of the great symbols of this is the Pittsburgh Penguins," Mr. Harper said, noting the teams star players are Canadian Sidney Crosby and Russian Evgeni Malkin.
"We're trying to tell [President] Obama that really deep down, the rebirth and revitalization of Pittsburgh is really due to Canadians and Russians," he quipped.
Posted
Sep 25 2009, 08:08 PM
by
Annie Tubbs