(Editor’s note: A reprint of a classic Christmas Eve column by Colin McNickle, first published in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Dec. 24, 2006.) Comes a time on Christmas Eve when...
(Editor’s note: A reprint of a classic Christmas column by Colin McNickle, first published in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Dec. 21, 2013). “I asked Santa to bring me a chemistry...
Media accounts have it that the Pittsburgh Penguins are about to be sold again, this time to the Hoffmann Family of Companies based in Chicago. Apparently, current owner Fenway Sports...
Yet again, the City of Pittsburgh struggled with snow removal from its streets during this past weekend’s big snowstorm. Some would argue that “failed” is the better word. While the...
Over two years, $5.25 million. That’s the state subsidy – taxpayer dollars – that Aer Lingus will be receiving to begin direct flights four days a week this coming late...
The National Football League (NFL) needs to get its head out of its tight end. So to speak. And VisitPittsburgh needs to remember who slathers that thick layer of butter...
We are heartened to see that the editorial page editor of a local newspaper has called for the state to take over Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS). That, after a majority...
Past time to ‘pencil out’ public subsidies for private developers
This is truly an alarming public policy statement regarding economic development in downtown Pittsburgh. It comes from the Nov. 22 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Right now, there’s an imbalance between the cost...
There it goes again: The federal government has taken yet another stake in a publicly traded company. This time it’s EOS Energy Enterprises Inc. We first introduced you to EOS...
It was in 1836 that William Leggett, the outspoken editorial writer for the New York Plaindealer, wrote of finding “something exceedingly impressive in the spectacle which a whole people present,...
Sometimes, Pittsburgh City Council gets it right. The city has eased restrictions on food and retail street vendors with mobile licenses. No longer will they have to move every four...
A U.S. District Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the Builders Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh challenging the City of Pittsburgh’s “inclusionary zoning” law. Judge Robert Colville ruled that the...
Perhaps the best news to come out of this week’s agreement to finally give birth to a new and long overdue state budget is the death of the Regional Greenhouse...
Something missing in gushing ‘adaptive reuse’ report
RentCafe.com, which bills itself as “a nationwide apartment search website,” is out with a fawning report on the number of buildings – hotels, offices, industrial buildings and schools, among others...
It was with the greatest fanfare last month that Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced a nearly $353 million “investment” by EOS Energy Enterprises to not only relocate the headquarters of...
