Category: Colin McNickle At Large

It sounds like a scene, and assessment, from Philadelphia’s recently settled garbage strike: Per the P-G: “Full black and blue plastic bins. Snack bags and

There’s a troubling contention in a local newspaper editorial that the City of Pittsburgh must raise taxes to extricate itself from its deep and growing

Media accounts have it that Pittsburgh will welcome a new grocery store to Downtown, on Liberty Avenue, and perhaps as soon as the second quarter

Today strikes us as an opportune day to recount some worthy quotes about public policy, sound and otherwise. The authors are purposely omitted so that

Enough really is enough: Yet another lawsuit has been filed challenging Allegheny County’s — and now, the state’s — patently unconstitutional property tax assessment system.

There is a pertinent question that has not been answered in the aftermath of this past week’s much ballyhooed Pennsylvania Energy and Information Summit at

From the email inbox, a reader writes: “Love your opinion piece [based on Allegheny Institute Policy Brief Vol. 25, No. 20] on Pittsburgh Regional Transit

Pittsburgh City Council has rejected an alternative, less-expansive version of an inclusionary zoning ordinance. One down, one to go. The bill, introduced as a flaccid

Spotlight Pa reports that there are “unknown costs” associated with Amazon’s $20 billion promise to build two data centers in Pennsylvania. Do tell. And here

Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Connor (also the highly presumptive Mayor-elect of the City of Pittsburgh) says county finances are “unsustainable” for the long term. He’s