Pittsburgh City Council has rejected an alternative, less-expansive version of an inclusionary zoning ordinance. One down, one to go. The bill, introduced as a flaccid counter to Mayor Ed Gainey’s...
Spotlight Pa reports that there are “unknown costs” associated with Amazon’s $20 billion promise to build two data centers in Pennsylvania. Do tell. And here we go again. State officials...
Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Connor (also the highly presumptive Mayor-elect of the City of Pittsburgh) says county finances are “unsustainable” for the long term. He’s being too kind. They are...
Happy 249th birthday, America! We once again commend for your thoughtful review a classic retelling of the moment of America’s separation from England, from historian and Pittsburgh native David McCullough’s...
If you are any kind of news junkie, you’ve obviously heard of the outlandish platform of New York City Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, the self-described “Democrat Socialist” who proposals...
If Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) spent as much time trying to right-size its out-of-whack cost structure as it has been trying to drum up support for more taxpayer bailout dollars,...
The Associated Press reported — erroneously, it turns out — that Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro “remains steadfast” that there will be no state money available to the Pittsburgh Steelers and...
Pittsburgh City Council is continuing to debate which “inclusionary zoning” proposal should be adopted in its quest for “affordable housing.” Talk about a false choice in this perverted exercise in...
In a lengthy and imploring editorial, a local newspaper claims that restoring state transit funding “isn’t a bailout” but “an investment in a public good.” “Transit is a public good,...
The Post-Gazette reports that Pittsburgh City Council has approved a major change to its Paid Sick Leave Act. Under the original proposal (which went into effect in March 2020), for...
A refreshing U.S. Open economic impact point of order
All due props to the Tribune-Review for adding some much-needed perspective to the trope that this week’s U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club will have a massive economic impact for...
At just about every level of government these days, and little matter to political persuasion, the “need” for an “industrial policy” has invaded the psyche of far too many public...
As the Post-Gazette reports it, Pittsburgh Water (the old Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority) has filed for a massive rate increase to “catch up” with its ageing system. The agency...
It was six years ago that this scrivener recommended that local public policy makers, those would-be and those of some longevity, would do themselves a great practical (if not intellectual)...
Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) boss Katharine Kelleman was back at it last week in a newspaper commentary, imploring state policy makers to “invest” evermore taxpayer dollars into the failed paradigm...
