Category: Colin McNickle At Large

Shall Article III, Subsection 7(c) of Allegheny County’s Home Rule Charter be repealed in order to remove restrictions on County Council members’ ability to receive

Several media outlets, social and traditional, finally are exposing Allegheny County council members – and most certainly others — for the slicksters they are. As

Amtrak announced with much fanfare this week in Johnstown that its second daily Pennsylvanian passenger train between Pittsburgh and New York (via Harrisburg) will return

In a letter to the editor of the Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Regional Transit boss Katharine Kelleman uses the current high gasoline prices to exhort the public

“Until the mindset of the area’s population and politicians change from their collectivist, Pollyannaish, union-loving, anti-capitalistic mindset, it will get worse until it can’t.” Those

The Tribune-Review reports that “state, county and local officials gathered Tuesday in Pittsburgh’s Uptown neighborhood to commemorate the opening of a new affordable housing development

The Post-Gazette reports that construction began Monday “on a multiyear project to change stodgy-looking Smithfield Street in downtown Pittsburgh into a pedestrian-friendly corridor with wide

From the Department of Small Wonders Never Cease: As the Tribune-Review reports it: “The Allegheny County Board of Health pared its controversial paid parental leave

A regular wag with whom we converse writes that he recently was perusing the American Greatness website and “tripped across” an article that not only

Far into the body of a deep dive by Pittsburgh’s Public Source into how much money is returned to public coffers through the sale of