Category: Colin McNickle At Large

Release the Shapiro security report

Hold the phone! The Associated Press reports that a taxpayer-funded $35,000-plus consultant’s report on security failings that facilitated the April 13 firebombing of Pennsylvania Gov.

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More fanciful folly from PRT

We don’t know whether to give Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) the 2025 Government Chutzpah Award or the 2025 Government Foppery Award. But it deserves at

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Greasing taxpayers & state secrets

Amid significant ballyhooing, not to mention likely inflated economic impact numbers, Nashville International Airport (BNA) this month bowed new and heavily taxpayer-subsidized direct flights to

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PIT punishes the handicapped

The optics are not good. And the reality is worse: In an apparent attempt to crack down on handicapped parking violators, Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT)

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Same old Pirates lies

The Pittsburgh Pirates stage their home-opener today at PNC Park against the mighty New York Yankees and the new home-run delivering “torpedo” bats. It’s a

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Notes on the ‘ahem’ of things

Dateline Pittsburgh, March 31, 2030: Pittsburgh Public Schools yet again tabled consideration of a bricks-and-mortar right-sizing and realignment of its school buildings, citing a need

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