The Irish Times is reporting — anew — that Aer Lingus has its sights set on a Dublin-to-Pittsburgh direct flight. Per the unsourced story that ran this month, the Irish...
After 30 years of raising red flags over this scheme and that boondoggle, we at the Allegheny Institute feel our nostrils flare every time some private business concern – whether...
The market case against subsidizing private business
We are coming upon the silly season once again. As the summer wanes and autumn beckons, elected officials’ fancies all too regularly turn to matters of “economic development” and how...
An economic impact study of that proposed $86 million convention center/hotel in Westmoreland County says the project would, as the Tribune-Review reports it, “generate nearly $270 million in direct revenue,...
A heady challenge for Arnold Palmer Regional Airport
Is it a tale of woe that could not come at a worse time for Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Westmoreland County? Or is it a rather fortuitous development? Spirit...
Nary a month goes by in which some government organization – or supposedly “non-government organization” that is connected to government at the hip and suckles at the taxpayer teat –...
Reports the Tribune-Review: “As feasibility studies for a convention center and hotel complex in Westmoreland County near completion, leaders from communities along Route 30 say that while they haven’t been...
The Tribune-Review, citing reports by Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet and others, says the bid bantered about by Mario Lemieux and Rob Burkle to prospectively buy back the Pittsburgh Penguins won’t...
Open air drug-dealing. Drug use. Dopers passed out on the sidewalks. Beatings; a woman cold-cocked, left unconscious in a public square. Robberies, some at gunpoint. Shootings, and not on the...
It sounds like a scene, and assessment, from Philadelphia’s recently settled garbage strike: Per the P-G: “Full black and blue plastic bins. Snack bags and bottles strewn across city streets....
There’s a troubling contention in a local newspaper editorial that the City of Pittsburgh must raise taxes to extricate itself from its deep and growing financial mess. Per the editorial:...
Media accounts have it that Pittsburgh will welcome a new grocery store to Downtown, on Liberty Avenue, and perhaps as soon as the second quarter of 2026. It’s welcome news...
Today strikes us as an opportune day to recount some worthy quotes about public policy, sound and otherwise. The authors are purposely omitted so that their words might be considered...
Enough really is enough: Yet another lawsuit has been filed challenging Allegheny County’s — and now, the state’s — patently unconstitutional property tax assessment system. The latest in a long...
There is a pertinent question that has not been answered in the aftermath of this past week’s much ballyhooed Pennsylvania Energy and Information Summit at Carnegie Mellon University. Nearly two...
