Category: Colin McNickle At Large

The SEA needs a shrink

These people must be nuts. The Pittsburgh-Allegheny County Sports & Exhibition Authority (SEA) has, according to WTAE-TV, “approved a resolution that would look to determine

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Allegheny Co.’s CLR ‘poison’

The president of Allegheny County Council is defending the council’s half-measures in addressing the property tax assessment mess that now has become an ever-deeper crisis.

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Pittsburgh’s scupper cancer

I had never heard of the word “scupper” until my college-era, two-year summer stint as a highway bridge construction inspector for the Ohio Department of

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Another pom-pom failure

Another week, another bogus “livability” ranking for Pittsburgh. The latest exercise in “Pay no attention to the facts behind the curtain” comes from an outfit

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