Nothing to celebrate with new Airport Authority board
BlueSky News, the public relations (i.e. propaganda) arm of the Allegheny County Airport Authority, had nothing but plaudits for the retiring chairman and two other members of the board that...
All is not well in Downtown TRIDland. And that’s good news. As the Post-Gazette reports it: “A plan to borrow tens of millions of dollars to spur redevelopment projects Downtown...
‘The Great Alleg. Co. Pension Fail’ & minimum wage illiterati
Allegheny County is in a world of financial hurt. And it’s going to cost taxpayers dearly. The Post-Gazette reports that a consultant’s study had concluded that the county will have...
It was 23 years ago, in 2003, that the late Pittsburgh-born and –bred historian David McCullough gave a most insightful lecture at a gathering of the National Endowment for the...
Details remain sparse, but Pittsburgh and Allegheny County taxpayers should be on alert for what appears to be the latest in a long line of attempts to tax our way...
A wag with whom we regularly converse has some follow-up thoughts on last week’s “At Large” advocating for the privatization of the underused I-279/I-576 High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes with...
It is now up to the voters of Allegheny County to reject the self-dealing, power-grabbing profligates of County Council. A year after raising property taxes by 36 percent, the council,...
As “modern” government continues its never-sated desire to expand, command and otherwise lord over the populace at all levels, we commend for your summer reading attention a few classic Garet...
The Post-Gazette reports that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) will use a $1.25 million federal grant to study whether the HOV lanes – those “high occupancy vehicle” lanes –...
‘Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore’
(Editor’s note: This column was originally published in June 2019. It remains as apropos as ever.) The summer season, which officially bows Sunday, is a great time to relax and...
Call it “The Further Raise the Cost of Public Projects Act.” The Republican-controlled Pennsylvania Senate voted 37-13 last week to expand the state Prevailing Wage Act to cover off-site fabrication...
Costa defends minimum wage hike plan with fictions
In light of state Sen. Jay Costa going on KDKA Radio last Thursday and repeating the falsehood that Pennsylvanians are fleeing the Keystone State for neighboring states with higher minimum...
The Tribune-Review quotes this public official and that private official gushing about all the wonderful economic opportunities that could come down the proverbial runway with last month’s newly inaugurated direct...
U.S. Steel/Nippon up their Mon Valley game. But will Big Government screw it up?
It is, by any accounting, a positive development. But with a few caveats, that is: U.S. Steel owner Nippon Steel says it is more than doubling its “no less than...
It is incredibly funny and incredibly tragic, all at the same time — a meme making the rounds on Facebook featuring a photo of a broadly smiling Allegheny County Chief...
