The Governor’s transportation panel met in Harrisburg on Monday to hear presentations on mass transit, rail, and truck modes and discuss funding options for what
Since announcing the formation of a Special Committee on Public Transportation in mid-April, two meetings have been held. The first, in April, lasted 48 minutes.
In a statement about Governor Corbett, Richard Trumka (head of the AFL-CIO) proves that even union bosses have a sense of humor. Trumka accuses the
Why can’t they just get along down in DC and solve this debt ceiling problem? The mournful cry of the folks who do not understand
According to the Post- Gazette followers of Paul Krugman’s school of incoherent economics, the cause of our country’s slow economic growth is inadequate government spending
Here we go again. A retailer needs government money to stay in Downtown Pittsburgh. Saks Fifth Avenue is telling local officials it might require as
The denizens of Wall Street Occupistan obviously have never paid much attention to lectures on logic, unintended consequences or internally contradictory reasoning. Case in point;
The following paragraph is taken verbatim from a sitting member of Pittsburgh’s City Council and illustrates perfectly how the City got into financially distressed status
As we wrote in a blog earlier this year, the Neshaminy School District in southeastern Pennsylvania had a teacher strike, the first in the 2011-12
A couple of weeks ago Moody’s Investor Services assigned an A1 rating to Allegheny County bonds. Much glee was expressed by the County Executive at
