{"id":312232,"date":"2026-10-22T22:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312232\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T22:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:02:06","slug":"this-weeks-biggest-winners-losers-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312232\/","title":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s biggest Winners &#038; Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a burgeoning nexus of novelty, Pittsburgh may be having its Paris in the Twenties \u2013 or Florence in the 1400s \u2013 moment. The Steel City was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/local\/city\/2026\/10\/21\/aspen-institute-pittsburgh-2027-ideas-festival\/stories\/202610210051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tapped as the 2027 inaugural host<\/a> for the international expansion of the Aspen Ideas Festival, dubbed &#8220;Aspen Ideas Encore: Pittsburgh.\u201d Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/see-which-pittsburgh-companies-made-time-magazines-best-inventions-list\/D5PRNXAIQNC7BMOXU74JZN6OPM\/?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Facebook&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawVHK2JleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAWJyaWQRMWZPbU00dEh1ekFFMU1tVFZzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe0hl19k-YlZo9j0MHoIeU7Uc9nYaFiYld0wHWMkxT6Gof_zagrbNgAnMrTm4_aem_cN-pFtP_ugfVX0VwEnLFiQ#Echobox=1792420134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">several local innovations landed<\/a> on Time Magazine\u2019s 2026 \u201cBest Inventions\u201d list, including a sustainable pill bottle from startup Parcel Health and Aurora Innovation\u2019s driverless trucks. Pittsburgh is also on the vanguard of both commonwealth parental leave and global transit, as one of just five Alstom rail innovation hubs.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading for more winners and losers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a burgeoning nexus of novelty, Pittsburgh may be having its Paris in the Twenties \u2013 or Florence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,4219],"class_list":["post-312232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-winners-losers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}