Gov. Josh Shapiro, fresh off a resounding re-election victory last week, appears to be setting two priorities for his second term: raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to $15 an hour (a...
By any standard, it was a thumping – 68 to 32 percent. And it is a welcome signal that Allegheny County voters continue to respect the original intent (in 1998)...
The distractions continue for Ivory Mathews, the new executive director of the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh. But the question now is if these rapidly are becoming more...
A smattering of quippy quotes in advance of polls, pols and public policy colliding on Tuesday: “The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—with governing people is...
The very same Jake Pawlak who served the prior mayoral administration as city budget director and essentially pooh-poohed any concerns that city finances were a wreck, now, as Pittsburgh director...
Bribery & extortion is no ‘affordable housing’ policy
Pittsburgh City Council has “advanced a massive zoning package that aims to spur the creation of more affordable housing,” the Tribune-Review reports. “It’s a compromise, and no one’s really happy,”...
Local media in Pittsburgh keep reporting that unionized Pittsburgh Regional Transit annual raises of 4 percent, 4 percent, 3.5 percent and 3.5 percent equal a 15 percent raise over the...
An Allegheny County Council majority (11 of 15) firmly planted its thumb to its nose, waggled its “civic” fingers arrogantly and blew one giant, sloppy raspberry of “Drop Dead!” to...
It’s worse than the public was first led to believe. It turns out that the $850,000 federal grant used to lure (bribe?) Breeze Airways to set up shop at Arnold...
And the epithet is “quokerwodger” (KWOK’-er-woe-jer) – a political puppet; a person or organization controlled by someone else and acting on their instructions. The word comes to mind as word...
Sayeth Sean Kertes, chairman of the Westmoreland County Commission: “Breeze Airways coming to Arnold Palmer Regional Airport is great news for Westmoreland County. New air service brings more travelers to our...
Shall Article III, Subsection 7(c) of Allegheny County’s Home Rule Charter be repealed in order to remove restrictions on County Council members’ ability to receive County funding for personal staff,...
Several media outlets, social and traditional, finally are exposing Allegheny County council members – and most certainly others — for the slicksters they are. As most attention had been focused...
Amtrak announced with much fanfare this week in Johnstown that its second daily Pennsylvanian passenger train between Pittsburgh and New York (via Harrisburg) will return to service on Nov. 18....
In a letter to the editor of the Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Regional Transit boss Katharine Kelleman uses the current high gasoline prices to exhort the public to use mass transit. But...
