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...
At the last board meeting of the Allegheny County Airport Authority, CEO Christina Cassotis said it was a “’really big deal’ that Aer Lingus executives showed up at the St....
From the email inbox, a trio of correspondents sounds the alarm over red-light cameras that the City of Pittsburgh is installing: “I loved your [March 6 “At Large”] column slamming...
Soo-prise, soo-prise. Much in the same way that it sprung news of the Midfield Terminal Project on an unsuspecting public a few years ago, the Allegheny County Airport Authority is...
This is about as pervertedly precious as it gets: The board of the Pittsburgh-Allegheny County Sports & Exhibition Authority (SEA) and Allegheny County Executive (ACE) Sara Innamorato are incensed –...
The Pittsburgh Downtown Neighbors Alliance (PDNA) reported in a gushing Feb. 20 news update that the public subsidy for a newly proposed new hotel to be attached to the David...
