Allegheny County Councilwoman Bethany Hallam issued a formal County Council proclamation on Tuesday recognizing Magisterial District Justice Xander Orenstein for “dedication to serving the residents of the region and putting...
The Tribune-Review reports that with the 2025 U.S. Open coming to Oakmont Country Club, the United States Golf Association (USGA) is planning a $4.8 million expansion of the fabled golf...
Dawdling no option in addressing Pittsburgh’s finances
What happens when there is a smoldering fire, the fire department is called but nobody answers the call? Pittsburghers could be about to find out. Pittsburgh Controller Rachael Heisler, the...
A dozen years ago, as director of editorial pages for Trib Total Media, I penned a column that, upon review this past week, struck me as still, and sadly, quite...
Speaking in Pittsburgh last week – on how to revitalize American industries — the president of the Brookings Institution think tank told a gathering of business leaders that the “vast...
Once again, the laughing stocks at the American Lung Association (ALA) have ranked the Pittsburgh metro area as having among the nation’s worst air. But as the Allegheny Institute long...
The public can’t know what it can’t see. Welcome to Pittsburgh City Council. As the Tribune-Review reports it: “For years, Pittsburgh City Council members have gathered behind closed doors to...
We are not envying the fine tax-paying folks of Kansas City and Tampa. For they are about to have their wallets molested to sate the appetites of the very rich...
Should taxpayers reward the failure of a private business? Of course not. The question arises – again – as an ancillary note to a Post-Gazette story that yet another business...
Last week, the Center Square news site, as did the Allegheny Institute last fall, sounded the alarm bells over the sure-to-grow cost of Amtrak’s coming, expanded, twice-a-day passenger train service...
A decade-plus of dickering, fueled by rancid political expediency — with repeated gross factual misrepresentations thrown in — came home to roost this past week when Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS)...
If you can’t be honest with yourself, how can you be honest with the people you were elected to represent? That has become the operative question for Pittsburgh Mayor Ed...
The long running joke about public policy in Pittsburgh is that it historically has been about a decade behind the times. And instead of learning from public policies that have...
As KDKA Radio’s Marty Griffin quipped the other day: “They must be high.” He was referring to news first reported by the Post-Gazette that there’s a new plan (this one...
A local newspaper editorial shills for a proposal from the budget introduced by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to boost funding for public transit. It offers all the usual, dubious and...
