Colin McNickle
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Right-to-work States’ Jobs Fare Better in Pandemic
Right-to-work (RTW) laws perennially have been tied to the whipping post erected by organized labor and flogged for everything from allegedly reducing workers’ voices to driving down wages and reducing → Read More
‘Statistical Malpractice’: The American Lung Association's Attack on Pittsburgh
Colin McNickle: The American Lung Association (ALA) has revived its smear campaign .05/18/2019 22:00:52PM EST. → Read More
Dubious Prescription: Wolf’s Teacher Pay Raise Plan
If no offsets can be found, this proposal will face a very difficult time in the Legislature..03/07/2019 0:27:20AM EST. → Read More
‘Not Encouraging’: 2018 PSSA Results
Indeed, are there no academic requirements to play sports?.12/22/2018 2:12:47AM EST. → Read More
The School District Consolidation Question
The School District Consolidation Question - Colin McNickle: Indeed, there can be concrete benefits to consolidating local school .10/20/2018 0:30:05AM EST. → Read More
Questioning Those ‘Livability’ Rankings
Ranking methodologies are not created equal and some of the criteria employed are suspect, bordering on bogus. → Read More
Overhauling Pa.’s Local Tax Regimen
Overhauling Pa.’s Local Tax Regimen - Colin McNickle: The Tax Foundation is out with a series of proposed .10/10/2018 15:45:18PM EST. → Read More
Tax Collections Up But Pa. Economy Steamless
Tax Collections Up But Pa. Economy Steamless - Colin McNickle: Pennsylvania’s total tax collections this past fiscal year exceeded those .10/05/2018 2:24:11AM EST. → Read More
Inequities Loom in School Tax Shift Plan
Legislation has been proposed to allow local school districts in Pennsylvania to shift their primary funding source from homeowner property taxes to a pool of money generated by an increase in the state income tax. → Read More
A Woeful Tale of Airport Subsidies
A nonperformance lawsuit to recover a portion of the public subsidies given to OneJet airlines to fly into and out of Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) raises the larger question of what is the proper role of airport authorities. → Read More
$3 million British Airways Subsidy Is Misguided
The new service will bow in April 2019, beginning with one flight daily on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. .08/16/2018 3:01:26AM EST. → Read More
A Shale Gas severance tax? Think Again (Again)
Impact fee revenue from fracked natural gas wells in Pennsylvania jumped 21 percent in 2017 from 2016, reversing three years of declines, according to the state Public Utility Commission (PUC). .08/01/2018 13:52:15PM EST. → Read More
Overcoming U.S., Pa. Economic Doldrums
It was a remarkable feat considering the economic downturns of the 1970s and two recessions in the early 1980s..07/28/2018 0:28:46AM EST. → Read More
A School Funding Red Herring
Put another way, 16 percent of Allegheny Countys school districts are in the states top five percent while 40 percent of its districts are in the top 20 percent..07/15/2018 0:36:31AM EST. → Read More
Eliminate Pennsylvania's Prevailing Wage Law
The prevailing wage law is cut from the same cloth as binding arbitration, teacher and transit worker strikes and the lack of a right-to-work law..06/27/2018 9:24:33AM EST. → Read More
Lung Association Smears Pittsburgh, Again
The American Lung Association (ALA) is out with its annual State of the Air report. And, true to form, it plays fast and loose with the facts to once more smear the air quality in Greater Pittsburgh as the eighth worst in the country for particulate pollution..05/31/2018 12:16:17PM EST. → Read More
How to Fix Pennsylvania’s State System Schools
The perfect storm to leave several of the 14 schools of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education struggling for survival..05/23/2018 12:11:09PM EST. → Read More
Pittsburgh’s ‘Inexcusably Costly’ Bus Service
Of 28 major metropolitan areas, only one U.S. mass-transit agency New Yorks had higher total operating expenses per revenue hour for buses in 2016 than the Port Authority of Allegheny County, new research from the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy shows..05/10/2018 0:29:54AM EST. → Read More
Letter from Pittsburgh: School District Attempts to ‘Market’ Failure
Since when is it appropriate to spend more than $100,000 in an attempt to gin up the sizzle of an educational steak sold as a cut that it certainly is not?.04/26/2018 16:37:58PM EST. → Read More
Pennsylvania's Job Growth in Perspective
The bottom line for Pennsylvanias overall jobs growth is not flattering. .04/18/2018 19:57:00PM EST. → Read More