Soo-prise, soo-prise. Much in the same way that it sprung news of the Midfield Terminal Project on an unsuspecting public a few years ago, the Allegheny County Airport Authority is...
This is about as pervertedly precious as it gets: The board of the Pittsburgh-Allegheny County Sports & Exhibition Authority (SEA) and Allegheny County Executive (ACE) Sara Innamorato are incensed –...
The Pittsburgh Downtown Neighbors Alliance (PDNA) reported in a gushing Feb. 20 news update that the public subsidy for a newly proposed new hotel to be attached to the David...
Given how a left-wing think tank out of Harrisburg has released a “report” yet again shilling for Pittsburgh and it “big five” nonprofits to enter into PILOT (payments in lieu...
Riverhounds have no license to raid taxpayer kitty
The answer remains “No.” The Tribune-Review reports that the owner of the Pittsburgh Riverhounds soccer team “remains committed to [a] $175 million Highmark Stadium expansion” at Station Square. And the...
Westmoreland County says it has long paid Spirit Airlines a $2.5 million annual subsidy to fly out of Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Unity. Per the Tribune-Review, the “county’s financial...
STOP! The flawed public policy of red-light cameras
Never mind the preponderance of research that shows installing cameras at intersections to catch red-light runners does not promote intersection safety, the City of Pittsburgh is moving ahead with its...
PRT mocks its ‘vision’ & ‘mission’ with Kelleman bonus
The board of directors of the struggling Pittsburgh Regional Transit last week awarded CEO Katharine Kelleman a $55,049 bonus and a 5 percent salary increase, pushing her new total compensation...
True PRT ‘reform’ would embrace competitive contracting
A Post-Gazette editorial last week again lamented the lack of a dedicated funding stream for Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT). That, it says, has created a dangerous cascading effect of both...
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...
