And now, a truncated collection of wonderfully important public policy quotes, as compiled by economist David L. Bahnsen for this 2021 book, “There’s No Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths,” that...
Taxpayer-funded EV chargers? Public AI subsidies? No & No.
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is readying a $100 million program to add public electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in neighborhoods in four regions statewide, the Post-Gazette reports. The...
What’s that you say? (Part 1): Various media outlets across Pennsylvania report that 102 state legislators have sent a letter to the Penn State administration “to exercise neutrality” in an...
Gus Faucher, chief economist for The PNC Financial Services Group, notes in a Post-Gazette commentary that Pittsburgh’s employment is “back to where it was before the pandemic, give or take,...
The Allegheny County Airport Authority keeps making the case why public subsidies are not needed for this coming spring’s Aer Lingus direct flights between Pittsburgh and Dublin. The latest comes...
Return of the convention center hotel ‘rat & cat farm’
Details remain sparse. But the Pittsburgh Business Times reports that the chairman of the Pittsburgh-Allegheny County Sports & Exhibition Authority (SEA), state Sen. Wayne Fontana, says a public subsidy package...
Will the advertised sizzle equal the steak delivered?
Reports the Post-Gazette: “The NCAA Division II men’s and women’s college basketball championships are coming to Pittsburgh in March, bringing some excitement — and money — to what is typically...
An oft delayed (and now $25 million) project to make Smithfield Street in downtown Pittsburgh “more pedestrian friendly” is expected to begin soon, the Post-Gazette reports. And, in the process,...
Guarantees Article I, Section 27, of the Pennsylvania Constitution: “The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic, and esthetic...
In his state budget address on Tuesday, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro chastised the state Senate for not following the state House’s two latest moves to raise the minimum wage. (Another...
Hats off to UPMC for stepping up in major-league fashion with a $10 million targeted gift that will help the City of Pittsburgh buy nine new ambulances and a rescue...
City-county merge birds are back; show them the exit
The Post-Gazette editorializes that Pittsburgh and Allegheny County should merge. It’s a worn entreaty that rears its ugly self on an all-too-regular basis. From the editorial: “With 130 municipalities, this...
Airport Authority makes case against foreign flight subsidies
In its zeal to defend taxpayer subsidies to bribe airlines to fly in and out of Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT), the Allegheny County Airport Authority has consistently, and unwittingly, made...
“Pa. betting industry brought in nearly $7 billion in 2025,” read the headline in Friday’s Post-Gazette. But it just as accurately could have read “Gamblers lost $7 billion betting in...
