Category: Colin McNickle At Large

Shapiro keeps RGGI alive. Why?

The Shapiro administration is making budget provisions in the new governor’s first spending blueprint for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). That’s despite candidate Shapiro’s

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Notes on the state of things

It’s not good news for the EVC (Electric Vehicle Caucus) in Pittsburgh: Citing the general unreliability of EV garbage trucks, the city is doubling down

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Meanwhile, back at Amazon…

The online retailing behemoth has “paused construction on a massive corporate real-estate complex near Washington, D.C., that it calls its second headquarters, as the tech

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The Pittsburgh mayor’s SPC failings

One of the necessary ingredients to make representative government functional is robust representation. But a Post-Gazette story suggests that a key public representative on the

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A call to intellectual arms

It was nearly three decades ago that an acquaintance — one I thought was no intellectual slouch — approached me on a Pittsburgh street, stopped,

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