Just for Fun

• June 26, 2024

The Eagles barely edge out the Steelers as the more favorable team. (2023 Q3) While the Philadelphia Phillies are significantly more popular than the Pittsburgh Pirates. (2024 Q1)…

Education

Students Lose in the “City of Champions”

• Colleen Hroncich
• July 29, 2019

Pittsburgh Pirates fans recently gathered at PNC Park to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1979 World Series Championship. When it comes to sports, people in the “City of Champions”…

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Education

Cyber Report Strikes Out

• Colleen Hroncich
• February 26, 2019

Although my grandfather, Danny Murtaugh, managed the Pittsburgh Pirates, I don’t pretend to be a baseball expert. But you don’t grow up in a baseball family without knowing you…

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Public Union Democracy

Union: We’ll Get ‘Em Next Year?

• February 16, 2011

Spring has almost sprung – seriously, it’s true.  Want to see the signs?  Pitchers and catchers have reported to the Grapefruit and Cactus Leagues, it’s looking like 60 degrees in…

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Pillaging and Plundering of PA Public not a Plus for Pittsburgh

• Elizabeth Stelle
• August 27, 2010

The Allegheny Institute highlights another failure of corporate welfare to stimulate economic growth. Back in 1998, the politically-appointed RAD board voted to force taxpayers to contribute $809 million towards…

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