Wayne Fontana, the chairman of the Pittsburgh-Allegheny County Sports & Exhibition Authority, tells Pittsburgh Public Source that he doesn’t know how much of a local, regional and state political appetite...
Pittsburgh’s hosting of the NFL Draft is history. By many accounts, it was a “success.” But not for all. Let’s first deal with the NFL’s official attendance number – a...
The Trump administration says it is strongly considering either bailing out Spirit Airlines with a loan of a half-a-billion dollars in taxpayer money — and with the government taking an...
If anyone had any hopes that Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) would take a tough stand against The Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) as new contract talks begin, think again. In a...
Monday’s “At Large” about a city agency bailing out a private developer whose pricey townhomes in Pittsburgh’s Middle Hill District attracted no buyers prompted this email correspondence from a wag...
What’s wrong with this picture? The Post-Gazette reports that “more than a year after the Hill District’s most expensive townhomes hit the market at $480,000 each, not one has sold...
The coming asset sale of the Post-Gazette to a Baltimore nonprofit is a win-win with a wildcard for Greater Pittsburgh. Block Communications of Toledo, the P-G’s owner for a century,...
A much-needed round of perspective and context suddenly, refreshingly, is visiting all those wild attendance projections for next week’s NFL Draft in Pittsburgh. While the official cheerleaders have been touting...
Weak. That’s the best way to describe the Allegheny County Airport Authority’s latest defense of public subsidies for foreign flights out of Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT). The issue resurfaced in...
To paraphrase Billy Shakespeare, that great writer of some repute: All the world’s a stage and we are merely players. We get such “culture” this Friday upon reading (in the...
Bless its journalistic heart, the Tribune-Review has published the perfect point-of-order, long-form story that questions much of the supposed conventional wisdom surrounding the touted coming benefits of this month’s NFL...
Some things make us laugh at the deception. Others embarrass us for the rank rah-rah-sis-boom-bah-ism. To wit: The city-county Sports & Exhibition Authority (SEA) is paying more than $6 million...
A Wall Street Journal editorial details the folly of the states of Illinois and Indiana engaging in a bidding war to see who can throw more taxpayer money at the...
The optics have not been good for downtown Pittsburgh over the past few years. A Golden Triangle still left largely vacant by the work-from-home class even after the Covid pandemic...
A secret search, the minimum wage & a reassessment plan
We fully understand the need for law enforcement to seal search warrants in certain investigations, citing “public cause.” That is, the secrecy can prevent investigations’ targets from destroying and/or hiding...
