Category: Colin McNickle At Large

When Sara Innamorato claimed victory in last week’s balloting for Allegheny County Chief Executive (ACE), she made an almost indecipherable remark about what would be

As pols from Pittsburgh’s Grant Street, to Harrisburg’s North Third Street, to Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue keep pledging direct and indirect public subsidies to convert failing

In a rather curious spate of timing, the Allegheny County Airport Authority announced last Friday that it was immediately eliminating eight jobs at the public

As we are wont to say when it comes to the Allegheny County Airport Authority, the truth is the first casualty of public relations. In

Consider it another slap (an elementary one but very necessary hard whack) against the growing “administrative state,” the worst contemporary enemy of sound republican governance.

Speakers at last week’s Pittsburgh Biotechnology Summit blamed the failure to adequately “brand” the region’s emerging biotech industry for the lack of investment in the

There was a curious quote from Allegheny County Airport Authority CEO Christina Cassotis in the Post-Gazette’s Oct. 20 story on increased passenger counts for those

The telling quote in a Tribune-Review story detailing how the City of Pittsburgh’s new plastic ban bag has left businesses and customers alike confused comes

The Post-Gazette reports that the Builders Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh (BAMP) has filed an amended complaint in U.S. District Court as it continues its challenge

Writes a new correspondent: “[Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT)] is the only transit authority in the state that requires the purchase of bonds by businesses doing