Municipal government is frequently a tale of failed attempts, of civic woe compounded by familiarity: The garbage doesn鈥檛 get picked up, the pothole doesn鈥檛 get filled in, the yard across the street remains an eyesore.For years, Uniontown鈥檚 Bailey Park was pretty much neglected. Once in a ...
The house always wins, as the saying goes, but gambling has generated plenty of other winners in Pennsylvania, too.The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board recently reported that gambling generated an eye-opening $515 million in revenue in March, the first time revenue crossed the ...
WASHINGTON - Before an assassin in 1935 ended his dreaming and scheming, Democrat Huey Long, Louisiana鈥檚 governor-turned-senator, articulated dissatisfaction with the two major parties. A demagogue of considerable intelligence and no scruples, he said of the nation鈥檚 binary choice:鈥淚t ...
WASHINGTON 鈥� As his reelection campaign begins, President Joe Biden is extremely vulnerable. According to NBC News polling out this week, his disapproval rating is at 54% (just two points shy of his all-time high) while a whopping 70% of Americans say they don鈥檛 want him to run again. With ...
The Allegheny County Airport Authority used a misleading comparison to make it appear that passenger and operations numbers at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) have improved more than they have, concludes a new analysis by the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy.As it happens, the PIT ...
