When Dennis Yablonsky took over Pittsburgh's main development group last year, everyone was telling him it was time to brag. "You know, we should be doing some kind of marketing campaign to let people know about Pittsburgh," people told him, "because you keep seeing those old images all the time." The city had moved on from its smoggy steel mill days. How could he tell the world? Then, two months into his post at the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, anyone watching C-SPAN would have seen White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs entering the briefing room to announce this: "The United States will host the next G-20 summit September 24th and 25th in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania," Gibbs told the press corps. There's a pause and then the press corps laughs. "Did I get a little murmur there?" Gibbs asked. To Yablonsky, though, this was the jackpot. "It was a once in a lifetime opportunity to get the message out," he said. Finally, Pittsburgh was being held up as the post
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