Summary: Once again, on April 24 the American Lung Association (ALA) launched its annual fear-mongering assault on the Pittsburgh region with dire warnings about the health risks of the region’s air pollution. As we have noted in previous Policy Briefs, … Continue reading →

At the most recent meeting of the City of Pittsburgh’s pension board the members received the investment report for the period ending March 31, 2019. The report shows that the total fund composite stood at $758 million.  The composite is … Continue reading →

“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary,” Thomas Jefferson wrote to a correspondent in 1824; “too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” Witness the continuing mess that is Allegheny County’s continuing use of … Continue reading →