tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588280325775325323.post2130318622554720698..comments2023-12-24T05:26:48.861-05:00Comments on The Pittsburgh Comet: Tuesday: PERESTROIKA!!! (Hold The Glasnost...)Bram Reichbaumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620172942925293407noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588280325775325323.post-31273792150135367822009-06-25T16:37:25.577-04:002009-06-25T16:37:25.577-04:00n'at:
Love you, man...
You are no doubt a Ci...n'at:<br /><br />Love you, man...<br /><br />You are no doubt a City Guy..<br /><br />Analmouse: Post June 25, 2009 10:27 am.<br /><br />Maybe Doug needs lesson in maturity..<br /><br />Doug could piss off the Pope!Monknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588280325775325323.post-34471961536480252172009-06-25T10:27:39.596-04:002009-06-25T10:27:39.596-04:00So Shields talks too much, often doesn't make ...So Shields talks too much, often doesn't make sense and gets inappropriately dramatic. It's always been that way, but it seems like everyone's learned to work around it. When Ravenstahl matures a little more he'll learn to not get too ticked at Shields.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588280325775325323.post-68351435342053358862009-06-23T20:44:44.790-04:002009-06-23T20:44:44.790-04:00the white hairs and a few of the grays had it good...the white hairs and a few of the grays had it good under the old guard. The county provided more services than the city and state, at one point. they even provided services to other counties during emergencies. <br /><br />I say let the eds and meds take over all of these ancillary services in exchange for not taxing their beds.n'athttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15921583757748199702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588280325775325323.post-26292745204878996852009-06-23T17:48:02.468-04:002009-06-23T17:48:02.468-04:00n'at
Last time I visited South Park(County, n...n'at<br /><br />Last time I visited South Park(County, not TV)...park looked like hell.<br /><br />County ought to sub out to Citiparks...Pittsburgh.<br /><br />Current mindset... County does better in all things, is misplaced...<br /><br />It is a suburbanite white supremacy 'cop out'...Monknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588280325775325323.post-17913331109678615152009-06-23T16:48:25.254-04:002009-06-23T16:48:25.254-04:00why would the city relinquish the parks to the cou...why would the city relinquish the parks to the county? the county doesn't want the parks, either. <br /><br />at the county, operations is out of the parks and special events departments, maintenance and improvements are out of public works. neither of them have adequate staff for the parks facilities they currently have.<br /><br />... for some strange reason county parks cant be unblemished green space. apparently, we need pools, fishing ponds, action parks, ADA playgrounds, dog/horse parks, firing ranges, boy/girl scout camps, soccer/softball/football/lacrosse/field hockey facilities, etc. and they want private capital to pay for it, and private enterprises to operate it...n'athttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15921583757748199702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588280325775325323.post-74974669890395030762009-06-23T16:47:13.857-04:002009-06-23T16:47:13.857-04:00BACK-UP
County Exit Would Take Steam Out Of Downt...BACK-UP<br /><br />County Exit Would Take Steam Out Of Downtown Heat Supplier P-G<br /><br />Monday, October 31, 2005<br /><br />By Jerome L. Sherman, Pittsburgh <br /><br />Post-Gazette<br /><br />Allegheny County could save more than $1 million a year if it stops using steam from the miles of pipes and tunnels that run below Downtown to heat its buildings and instead installs furnaces, according to a recent report by county Controller Mark Patrick Flaherty.<br /><br />Pittsburgh Allegheny County Thermal Ltd., or PACT, the nonprofit organization that supplies steam to about 100 Downtown buildings, has doubled its price over the past five years, the report says.<br /><br />In 2004, county government spent $2.7 million on PACT steam.<br /><br /><br /><br />http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05304/597982-28.stm#ixzz0JHvk4lGE&DMonknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588280325775325323.post-86037122932648848232009-06-23T15:31:23.226-04:002009-06-23T15:31:23.226-04:00Needn’t be Rocket Scientists to see potential Ener...Needn’t be Rocket Scientists to see potential Energy Savings for City/County…only need wear glasses in winter:<br /><br />Egad…What ever happened to County Controller Mark Patrick Flaherty’s proposal to build small Boiler Plant in proximity to the City County Building (CCB)? Plant would feed CCB, County Court House, Family Court, Municipal Court, County Office Building, Morgue and Jail.<br /><br />When proposal first appeared in print I was Mark’s biggest supporter and maybe the only one.<br /><br />Pittsburgh Allegheny County Thermal (PACT) currently supplies steam to aforementioned buildings... cost is out of line. Both figuratively and literally…ever walk by sidewalk chimneys? Liberty and Stanwix Street…steam plumes fogging up glasses? City and County Taxpayers pay for the heat lost through unauthorized venting to atmosphere.<br /><br />The reason I suspect Mark’s plan failed was private buildings would see their loses increase proportionately to Government savings…PACT is government subsidized inefficiency…<br /><br />Stand on any City Sidewalk, next to sidewalk chimney in January and watch your tax dollars fog up you glasses…Monknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588280325775325323.post-71808066256278902092009-06-23T15:16:38.576-04:002009-06-23T15:16:38.576-04:00Maria - Yes they did. Got an e-mail from NU at 10...Maria - Yes they did. Got an e-mail from NU at 10:30 saying so, didn't update the blog; hope nobody trudged down to 200 Ross Street on my account.<br /><br />These postponement requests at the Nth hour are ANOTHER issue already.Bram Reichbaumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05620172942925293407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588280325775325323.post-44832073703051822202009-06-23T14:42:27.636-04:002009-06-23T14:42:27.636-04:00Sorry to disagree Mark...nothing is a 'snap...Sorry to disagree Mark...nothing is a 'snap' when it concerns mergers...<br /><br />The County has hired someone to study reducing energy costs and for 'Greening Up' County facilities.<br /><br />The City has embarked on a similar adventure...heading for same destination in separate craft...<br /><br />As both the City and County share the confines of the City County Building would it not make sense to perform 'studies' in microcosm rather than macrocosm?<br /><br />Not that it takes much, but it is enough to make me break out the 'Bud Light W Lime'.Monknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588280325775325323.post-56549637954005260162009-06-23T12:12:56.305-04:002009-06-23T12:12:56.305-04:00I heard they took the NS Uglitheater off the agend...I heard they took the NS Uglitheater off the agenda today.Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10439330154875628083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588280325775325323.post-1246597145713449692009-06-23T10:41:59.093-04:002009-06-23T10:41:59.093-04:00Bring on the discussion about merging parks. Parks...Bring on the discussion about merging parks. Parks, if I had been elected, would have been spun out of Citiparks and out of County and into a new 3rd entity -- with democratic controls. Not another authority. <br /><br />It is in our parks where we teacdh and learn how to play well with one another. We all need to go to the parks and work on those lessons -- NEXT. <br /><br />The parks discussions will get the gears moving and everyone on-board. Then the others will be a snap.Mark Rauterkushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17157914569686528007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588280325775325323.post-36002346439986961022009-06-23T08:11:45.016-04:002009-06-23T08:11:45.016-04:00Ed - I changed the images in the post, and some ex...Ed - I changed the images in the post, and some extremely minor grammatical corrections ... but the Dowd reference remains unmolested. Thank you for being a frequent reader!Bram Reichbaumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05620172942925293407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1588280325775325323.post-17637838784502552852009-06-23T07:41:44.006-04:002009-06-23T07:41:44.006-04:00Did you change this post, between 6:00 am and 7:30...Did you change this post, between 6:00 am and 7:30? Mention of Pat Dowd appears to have disappeared. Agent Ska made some reference to a post maybe on Matt Hogue's website about Sala Udin that disappered. MattHExposed said something about a discussion about it that I also can't find. <br /><br />I'm very confused. <br /><br />Bill Peduto had released a plan for the amended Act 47 plan, shortly before the actual amended Act 47 plan came out. Peduto's plan had marching orders for the Rendell Administration and the State legislature that seemed pretty unlikely. I hate to say it, but the new plan with mergers n'at also seems kind of ambitious. I think we have to face the fact that the Feds, the state and the city all want to raise their taxes on us. Whoopie.EdHeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09109361235271107574noreply@blogger.com