Category: Colin McNickle At Large

He shoots! He slays! So to speak. “He” is Bill Demchak, CEO of Pittsburgh-based banking giant PNC Financial Services Group. At the late April annual

There’s a telling paragraph in a recent Associated Press dispatch about cities, Pittsburgh included, “reviving” their downtowns by converting offices to housing: “The conversion push

At the same time that a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court judge ordered the state’s Tax Equalization Board (STEB) to recalculate, downward, the common level ratio (CLR)

Las Vegas and Nevada taxpayers should be advised to hold onto their wallets: A government molestation is about to occur, on behalf of Major League

Pittsburgh’s “leaders” might want to call on Kyle Bass before they further proceed with any kind of taxpayer-assisted conversion of older office building space to

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette headline, April 18: “City won’t halt steep increase in zoning review fee – but is open to more discussion.” Sane and rational interpretation

Two interesting correspondences worth sharing with our readers. The first comes from a most insightful wag with whom we regularly converse: “Last night, KDKA-TV ran

We’ve often written about the deleterious effects that organized labor too often has on public policy. It might as well be called organized extortion. And

The phrase “Stick a fork in it, it’s done” comes to mind. We refer not just to the latest Post-Gazette report on still quite high

Pittsburgh Public Schools has jumped on the hoped-for-easy-money bandwagon and filed a lawsuit against social media. And it opens a nefarious public policy window on