Call it “The Further Raise the Cost of Public Projects Act.” The Republican-controlled Pennsylvania Senate voted 37-13 last week to expand the state Prevailing Wage Act to cover off-site fabrication...
Costa defends minimum wage hike plan with fictions
In light of state Sen. Jay Costa going on KDKA Radio last Thursday and repeating the falsehood that Pennsylvanians are fleeing the Keystone State for neighboring states with higher minimum...
The Tribune-Review quotes this public official and that private official gushing about all the wonderful economic opportunities that could come down the proverbial runway with last month’s newly inaugurated direct...
U.S. Steel/Nippon up their Mon Valley game. But will Big Government screw it up?
It is, by any accounting, a positive development. But with a few caveats, that is: U.S. Steel owner Nippon Steel says it is more than doubling its “no less than...
It is incredibly funny and incredibly tragic, all at the same time — a meme making the rounds on Facebook featuring a photo of a broadly smiling Allegheny County Chief...
Pittsburgh’s Public Source reports that calls to the city’s 311 help line reporting city-run garbage collection “whiffs” have surged. “In some neighborhoods, complaints are 10 times higher than in others,”...
Of ‘bribes,’ rules & regs, shoveling pols & all whatnot
From the email inbox: A writer contends Monday’s “At Large” was “a little harsh” regarding “Arnold Palmer Regional Airport’s need to bribe an airline to offer flights to and from...
Palmer’s ‘best shot’ shows its operation not sustainable
“Arnold Palmer Regional Airport targets federal grant program to replace Spirit Airlines,” reads the Tribune-Review headline. “Westmoreland County officials look to a revenue-guarantee fund to lure a new low-cost carrier,”...
The Tribune-Review reports that the Pittsburgh Zoning Board has denied an affordable housing variance for an Oakland apartment complex. “Walnut Capital hoped to avoid earmarking 16 of 159 apartments as...
Pittsburgh, of course, has a letter of intent from Loews Hotels, the luxury hotelier, to build swanky lodging at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. But that’s more than a...
WASHINGTON, D.C. It was about as poignant a moment as one could imagine: The National World War II Memorial. On the National Mall. On the Saturday before Memorial Day weekend...
The Shapiro administration and “local partners” have signed a letter of intent with Loews Hotels to build a 500-room hotel at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. And taxpayers’ wallets...
The sad news is that Westmoreland County’s Arnold Palmer Regional Airport (LBE), left commercial carrier-less with the demise of Spirit Airlines, had to lay off 25 workers this month. Two...
The Allegheny County Board of Health obviously has no idea what it takes to run a business. Why else would it propose that all private businesses in the county —...
From the email inbox — and a wag with whom we regularly converse – a response to last week’s “At Large” about gardening being a road to greater food independence:...
