Category: Colin McNickle At Large

RGGI’s ‘Operation Opaqueness’

As Inside Climate News reports it, the Shapiro administration has had secret meetings with “handpicked” representatives of “Pennsylvania’s oil and gas industries, labor unions and

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Government-sanctioned theft

Taxpayers are bailing out a Pittsburgh-based pension plan to the tune of $260 million. The announcement came last Wednesday from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.

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Stupid government tricks

The City of Pittsburgh has expanded a pilot program that monitors business loading zones and charges for their use. It’s called the “Smart Loading Zones”

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Crime & policy in Pittsburgh

Statistics don’t lie. But they can be twisted. Welcome to the City of Pittsburgh. As public pressure increased on city officials to crack down on

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Notes on the state of things

A local newspaper has editorialized for the formation of a “national Department of Urban Affairs.” “Cities are the backbones of interconnected metropolitan regions, where 80

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The Pirates are kidding, right?

The rah-rah-sis-boom-bah-ers have been out in force over the last couple days, rushing with the gushing over the supposedly “game-changing venue” that the Pittsburgh Pirates

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