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Jeremy Boren

Jeremy Boren

Senior Brand Manager at industrial tech firm GrayMatter and former Pittsburgh Tribune-Review political reporter and editor, husband of City Cast Pittsburgh host Megan Harris.

Aug 5, 2026

4:47
I remember the
4:48
3Bs.
4:49
I know all those players.
4:51
I was the kid, the 12-year-old kid, filling out the box score at Three Rivers Stadium, you know, going to games with my dad, some of my best memories.
5:00
So I, like, still hold on to that.
5:02
And as somebody who, like, has... sort of lived through all of that.
5:08
And, you know, I'm not anywhere close old enough to remember World Series days.
9:46
We did get a couple of votes for Ron Hextall and Brian Burke.
6:43
So for, actually for each of these, how about we do it this way? Y'all say yes villain, no villain, and why or why not.
6:50
I would say on the UPMC part, I don't know what specifically, you know, made people upset, but I know there's been this long ru- running discussion as to whether or not UPMC and other nonprofit agencies, right, should be paying, you know, more towards city services because they own huge tracts of untaxed land as a nonprofit.
7:10
And, you know, I guess as a CEO, you just get a lot of the flack for that discussion.
7:15
And, you know, even in my reporting days in the early aughts, they were talking about how much that sh- contribution should be, how, you know, regular it should be.
7:25
You know, should it be paying for like the operations of the city or should it be paying for, you know, specific projects or capital goods? And I think the, the positive part is that, you know, now there is an agreement, right, under this most recent administration.

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13:37
[laughs]
13:38
They've had a lot of bumps in the road as an agency.
13:42
And, uh, I do like to focus on the positive and what they're doing to replace the, you know, the piping system in, in, in the city of Pittsburgh and remove lead and, and things like that.

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