Category: Colin McNickle At Large

‘One more time, class…’

The Post-Gazette’s Mark Belko wryly notes that “it’s a great time to be a building owner or landlord in Pittsburgh’s Golden Triangle.” The reference comes

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Pay your own way, NFL draft

How much public money will the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County and the Pittsburgh Steelers attempt to extract from taxpayers’ pockets for this deal? That’s

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And now, a few words from…

Wrote one dedicated correspondent after reading Monday’s At Large column regarding a Pittsburgh City Council proposal to find/fund a dedicated location or locations to create

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Notes on the state of things

Pittsburgh developers are struggling with high interest rates and construction costs, the Post-Gazette reports. And that has led to a slowdown in local building projects,

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The public policy of Thanksgiving

It was in 1836 that William Leggett, the outspoken editorial writer for the New York Plaindealer, wrote of finding “something exceedingly impressive in the spectacle

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The folly of the nose-less ecocrats

Consider it the “progressives’” latest move to cut off one’s nose to spite one’s face: Envirocrats are cheering the sobering news that another proposed Pennsylvania

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Cleanup in aisle taxpayer

The Wall Street Journal reports that Chicago is studying “whether to become the first big city to open a municipally owned grocery store.” And while

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