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A majority of Pittsburgh City Council members said yesterday that they'll vote for a tuition tax, but that won't stop the universities -- and maybe the students -- from trying to derail the effort. [snip] Mayor Luke Ravenstahl gathered five council members in his conference room yesterday to deliver a message: We don't want to tax students, but unless the universities pay voluntarily, we have no choice. [snip] "If this tax is implemented, it will not be the fault of Mayor Ravenstahl," said Mr. Burgess. "It will not be the fault of council. It will solely be on backs of...

A farm in every Pittsburgh neighborhood would be one of the goals of a Franco Dok Harris administration, the independent mayoral candidate said today, as his campaign sounded its final notes before Tuesday's election. The novel proposal -- which would have the city assemble vacant lots and help gather the expertise needed to transform them into farms Read more: http://www.postgazette.com/pg/09303/1009555-100.stm#ixzz0VRy1TKRj

March 01, 2005 11:00 AM US Eastern Timezone West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles Awards Contract to Viisage for A Leading Edge, Multi-Biometric Drivers' License BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2005--   West Virginia Setting New Standard for Internal Controls and Drivers' License Security Designed to Improve Homeland Security and Protect Citizen's Identity   Viisage (Nasdaq: VISG), a leading provider of advanced technology identity solutions, today announced that after a thorough evaluation of competitive offerings, the West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles selected Viisage for the design and implementation of the State's new drivers' license. The new State license will include finger...

Pittsburgh was slammed hard yesterday by 6+ inches of rain from Hurricane Ivan. Massive flooding, towns under water, local state of emergency. Many people have lost homes and businesses, many people are hurting. KDKA Radio has live coverage in progress. Their new Liberal Program Director, Steve Hansen, is on the air right now. Heard him do this with my own ears about 30 min. ago. He took a call from a small business owner who was wiped out by the flood and had no flood insurance (did not think he needed it) Hansen went on to explain that a lot...

Thursday, Mar. 18, 1999 Jays fire Johnson for Vietnam lies By BEN WALKER Associated Press DUNEDIN, Fla. - The lies Tim Johnson told about his Marine service in Vietnam cost him the trust of his team. Now, it's cost him his job. Johnson was fired Wednesday as manager of the Toronto Blue Jays and replaced by Jim Fregosi in a rare spring training dismissal. "The unsettledness and the distractions had become the issue," general manager Gord Ash said. "It had become apparent it wasn't going to work." Johnson never saw combat, but supposedly made up stories - including one about...

1992 - CBS uses a highly-rated Super Bowl game carried on their network as a lead-in to the Bill and Hillary Clinton smiling-happy-couple interview, which allowed them to diffuse the Gennifer Flowers controversy. 2004 - CBS uses an exciting, competitive weekend of NCAA Championship Basketball to lead into the outrageous and defamatory charges of one Richard Clarke. It's time for all the Freepers out there to get wise to this. NFL, NCAA...time to insist that CBS stop using your highly-rated Championship games as a lead-in to distorted liberal Political Propaganda on 60 Minutes. Time to bombard the NFL and NCAA...

<p>Gov. Ed Rendell's appetite is legendary. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review learned why when it tallied food and catering bills from the Philadelphia Democrat's first 11 months in office.</p> <p>The total: $75,918.</p> <p>That's an average of almost $230 a day -- for a household of one when the governor's wife, Marjorie O. Rendell, is working in Philadelphia as a federal appeals judge.</p>