Pittsburgh Parents Perplexed by Planned Public School Closures During NFL Draft
The event is expected to draw as many as 700,000 visitors to Steel City.
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SALENA ZITO
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Salena Zito is a Columnist of the Creators Syndicate.
Ms. Zito is a CNN political analyst, and a staff reporter and columnist for the Washington Examiner. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through shoe-leather journalism, traveling from Main Street to the beltway and all places in between.
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