Category: Colin McNickle At Large

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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Planning pussyfoots pummel PPU

Downtown Pittsburgh remains a growing cesspool of shootings, drug-dealing and vagrants using the streets as public toilets. Yet the city Planning Commission continues to drag

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Don’t mess with failure

For the second time in as many weeks, a supposedly promising high-tech company has foundered in Pittsburgh. As first reported by the Pittsburgh Business Times

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