Colin McNickle

The Allegheny Institute for Public Policy is reiterating its long-standing call for the state Legislature to repeal Pennsylvania’s Prevailing Wage ...

The coronavirus pandemic hammered Pennsylvania’s economy in 2020. But the key to economic recovery -- once a more predictable regimen ...

The enrollment and financial woes of the State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) are well known. And fixing the mess ...

Right-to-work (RTW) laws perennially have been tied to the whipping post erected by organized labor and flogged for everything from ...

“Disingenuous and misleading.” That’s how a researcher at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy characterizes the American Lung Association’s continual ...

Pennsylvania’s general fund coffers took a major hit because of the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. But the full scope might not ...

Wrestling with a serious coronavirus-induced revenue shortfall, the City of Pittsburgh must cut spending and cannot afford to raise taxes, ...

Whether it represents the proverbial canary in the coal mine indeed is arguable but Pittsburgh’s flagging occupancy rate for class ...

Vox’s headline on its story two weeks ago said President Trump canceled his plan to pull flavored e-cigarettes from the ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) passes neither the sniff test nor basic ...

The American Lung Association (ALA) has revived its smear campaign against the Pittsburgh region’s air quality with the release of ...

A proposal in Gov. Tom Wolf’s fiscal 2020 budget to raise the minimum wage for Pennsylvania’s public school teachers and ...

Scores for the 2018 Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) tests have been posted. But the latest results are not ...

Will the Allegheny County Airport Authority learn from its embarrassing 2018 failures to command the air-services marketplace at Pittsburgh International ...

Indeed, there can be concrete benefits to consolidating local school districts in Pennsylvania. But operational concerns – contractual, economic and, ...