Colin McNickle At Large

And the epithet is “quokerwodger” (KWOK’-er-woe-jer) – a political puppet; a person or organization controlled by someone else and acting on their instructions. The word comes to mind as word...

Sayeth Sean Kertes, chairman of the Westmoreland County Commission: “Breeze Airways coming to Arnold Palmer Regional Airport is great news for Westmoreland County. New air service brings more travelers to our...

Shall Article III, Subsection 7(c) of Allegheny County’s Home Rule Charter be repealed in order to remove restrictions on County Council members’ ability to receive County funding for personal staff,...

Several media outlets, social and traditional, finally are exposing Allegheny County council members – and most certainly others — for the slicksters they are. As most attention had been focused...

Amtrak announced with much fanfare this week in Johnstown that its second daily Pennsylvanian passenger train between Pittsburgh and New York (via Harrisburg) will return to service on Nov. 18....

In a letter to the editor of the Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Regional Transit boss Katharine Kelleman uses the current high gasoline prices to exhort the public to use mass transit. But...

“Until the mindset of the area’s population and politicians change from their collectivist, Pollyannaish, union-loving, anti-capitalistic mindset, it will get worse until it can’t.” Those are the words of Jake...

The Tribune-Review reports that “state, county and local officials gathered Tuesday in Pittsburgh’s Uptown neighborhood to commemorate the opening of a new affordable housing development for low-income residents.” “Located at...

The Post-Gazette reports that construction began Monday “on a multiyear project to change stodgy-looking Smithfield Street in downtown Pittsburgh into a pedestrian-friendly corridor with wide sidewalks, landscaping and other amenities.”...

From the Department of Small Wonders Never Cease: As the Tribune-Review reports it: “The Allegheny County Board of Health pared its controversial paid parental leave proposal Wednesday, shaving six weeks...

A regular wag with whom we converse writes that he recently was perusing the American Greatness website and “tripped across” an article that not only “is tangentially applicable to Allegheny...

Far into the body of a deep dive by Pittsburgh’s Public Source into how much money is returned to public coffers through the sale of Steelers tickets is a too-often-forgotten...

How much money was lost to the public kitty – that is, to taxpayer coffers – over the last 16 or so years because of the sweetheart development deal that...

With governments at every level back from their summer recesses, it is only apropos to commend for their review some classic quotes about governing and those chosen to govern: Ronald...

The takeaway from a pair of recent Post-Gazette stories on the City of Pittsburgh’s budget mess is that “secret spending decisions” by the prior mayoral administration “left Pittsburgh’s finances on...