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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...

Here we go again: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says that if the Philadelphia Eagles decide they want a new football stadium, “It’s going to be in the city of Philadelphia.”...

A Tarentum resident says he recently heard Allegheny Institute Research Director Eric Montarti on Colin Dunlap’s KDKA Radio talk show discussing the hundreds of millions of dollars in economic benefits...

Allegheny County’s district attorney says an investigation into Pittsburgh’s finances suggests millions of dollars in public money is missing. The money, purportedly spent on contracts by former Mayor Ed Gainey’s...

When it comes to the much-ballyhooed NFL Draft – that would be the event for which VisitPittsburgh has refused to release the real McCoy economic impact “studies” claiming grand economic...

A Common Pleas judge’s ruling ordering Allegheny County to begin a full property reassessment no later than July 1, 2027, might not be The Great Panacea some are making it...

It’s a start. But it requires one important tweak. As the Tribune-Review reported it, “Allegheny County’s Government Review Commission voted unanimously on Wednesday to release a draft that outlines a...

The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership favors using proceeds from the proposed Downtown Transit Revitalization Investment District (TRID) tax diversion to fund office conversions, the Tribune-Review reports. As the thinking has been...