The Angry Drunk Bureaucrat

• And Now...

  WKRP Turkey Drop - Watch more Videos at Vodpod.
  
  Happy Thanksgiving! [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:00pm EST
  

• That Which May Not Be Named

  PittGirl or Virginia or Ginny or whatever nom de blog she wants to go by now made an excellent point about lawyers and the suing off of pantalones and what not and so forth. But, still here are some points that I feel to be salient... apropos of nothing [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 11:56pm EST
  

• Whither the ACCD Meeting

  I've been busy the last several months doing end/beginning of the Federal fiscal year junk, so I only got around to realizing that I couldn't find my invitation to the Allegheny Conference on Community Development's annual meeting, which we narrated in 2005, 2006, and 2007. We didn't do it in' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:54pm EST
  

• A Bureaucrat's Aside Re: Prevailing Wages (pt. 2)

  So, if the City ponies up $600,000 to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, would they be subject to prevailing wage requirements as well?
  
  I suppose it depends on when they try to enact legislation, I suppose. [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:41pm EST
  

• 5 on 4

  So I saw this here picture in the P-G
  
  and I said to myself, "Self: which of those councilpersons have universities or large numbers of university students residing in their districts and are also going to be in office come January?"
  
  The answer didn't' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:42pm EST
  

• A Bureaucrat's Aside Re: Prevailing Wages

  I find it interesting that this story and this story broke in the same week.
  
  I wonder what impact the former is going to have on resolving the latter, or, more fundamentally, if there's even a grocery store out there willing to go into the Hill [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:16pm EST
  

• Ravenstahl Proposes City Budget Gap to be Plugged with "Magic"

  On the heals of its rejection by the Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has announced that he will fund the City's budget through a combination of tax increases, service fees, and magic.
  
  "We've tapped every source of funds that are available," said the Mayor speaking to' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:27pm EST
  

• PG+ Tour

  In case you missed it, the Post-Gazette was running a free promotional PG+ tour today. Here's a sneak peek: Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQLAh. OK, let's try that again:jtablesession::Store Failed
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  Table './plus_joom/jos_session' is marked as crashed [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:47pm EST
  

• *Clonk*

  And the can gets kicked down the road again:Allegheny County will appeal a Common Pleas Court order to complete a reassessment of all property over the next four years, County Executive Dan Onorato announced this afternoon.
  
  Mr. Onorato said the appeal would give the state Legislature time to [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:29pm EST
  

• A Bureaucrat's Aside Re: Bonusgate (Part II)

  Wouldn't it be easier for Tom Corbett to indict everyone in Harrisburg and just figure out what they did later? There's enough of them; statistically, they're all guilty of something.
  
  Alternatively, anybody want to bet that Auditor General (and potential opponent for the Governorship) Jack Wagner releases a' [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:27pm EST
  

• Lest We Forget

  
  In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved, and were loved, and now [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:00am EST
  

• Tonight's Episode: "Brain Pain" or "Taxing your Knowledge"

  So by now, you've heard about this: Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl plans to propose a 1 percent college-education privilege tax to council today, in a move that's likely to set off a fight with the city's schools of higher learning.
  
  College and university representatives met with the mayor' [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:23pm EST
  

• Please do not Read the Last Post

  OK, a bit of a confession/apology to make here:
  
  I was rushed on Friday and didn't have a chance to read the post in full. Now, apparently this post contained some very hateful, mean, and disturbing things (which I will not go into here). Most of the time' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:30pm EST
  

• Election Day

  
  
  ...dammit!
  Unless, of course, you're not voting for my candidate. In which case, our votes will offset, so neither of us should bother going to the polls. I'll hold up my end of the bargain if you will, I swear. [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:00am EST
  

• Something About Where the Choo-Choo Goes

  The city's newspaper of record finally caught up with its not-being-sued-by-Mylan rival and published a story about last week's East End Rail proposal to Council, which can be found here in all of its sic transit gloria.
  
  This proposal is appealing in that it seeks [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:47pm EST
  

• A Bureaucrat's Aside Re: Halloween

  Last night on Halloween, I swear I saw the ghost of the late Councilwoman Tonya Payne on Grant Street.
  
  It was scary. [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 11:28pm EST