Category: Colin McNickle At Large

Grocery fiasco, Part 2

It’s being reported that theft played no small role in the decision to “pause” year-old operations at the heavily taxpayer-subsidized Salem’s Market in the Hill

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Notes on the state of things

The Post-Gazette reports that more and more Pittsburgh-area school districts are eliminating individual students’ class rankings. Says the P-G: “The move is one that school

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The Mainspring ‘deal’

Why? Why are taxpayers subsidizing this? And why do they have more skin in the game than the subsidies’ recipient? Why? Reports Blue Sky News

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More stupid pol tricks

Talk about chutzpah. The same Josh Shapiro who blamed the nation’s top electricity grid operator for the economic failings of Gang Green — then browbeat

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Public policy vapidity

A study by real estate listing and data-provider “CommercialCafe” suggests there’s nearly 5.2 million square feet of downtown Pittsburgh office space that easily could be

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