Category: Colin McNickle At Large

What Mencken said…

From time to time, especially when public policy news is running sparse, we like to recount the observations of some of history’s greatest free-market  economists

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The great stadia debate: Part 2

Wayne Fontana, the chairman of the Pittsburgh-Allegheny County Sports & Exhibition Authority, tells Pittsburgh Public Source that he doesn’t know how much of a local,

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Numbers, draft & minimum

Pittsburgh’s hosting of the NFL Draft is history. By many accounts, it was a “success.” But not for all. Let’s first deal with the NFL’s

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No taxpayer bailout for Spirit

The Trump administration says it is strongly considering either bailing out Spirit Airlines with a loan of a half-a-billion dollars in taxpayer money — and

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The ATU extorts PRT

If anyone had any hopes that Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) would take a tough stand against The Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) as new contract talks

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