Today’s life lesson: never use email where a phone call will do. It’s a tough life lesson to learn. Email has become SO easy these days (and yes, I’m including facebook and linkedin messages as email). More specifically then the general rule, decide whether you want your message to be...

I’m an opinionated guy, VERY opinionated, and I have to say, when it comes to whether nationalized health care is a good idea, I don’t have the foggiest idea. Yes, the current system is terribly inefficient and horribly unjust. Yes, it is hard to imagine a government run system doing...

The New England Patriots recently traded away one of their more talented players, Richard Seymor to the struggling Oakland Raiders for a first round pick in 2011. Jason Lisk provides an interesting review of the trade at Pro Football Reference. The summary though, is this. If we assume that the...

Why did Mike Madison write in his Revitalization of Pittsburgh Part III that, “Major railroad rights of way still impede public access, especially across much of the South Side.” I live on the South Side, and the only reason they bother me is that they keep people who stay at...

I won’t be in Pittsburgh on Thursday, and that’s probably a good thing. While I enjoy the start of the NFL season as much as the next guy, it will also be the first (and far from last day) where the Pirates game summary won’t show up until page C-3...

That picture really sums it up, the face of an organization is now a face in another. I think it will be exciting to watch McCutchen play, and for that reason I am excited about today’s game. The problem is that I wanted to be excited about McCutchen’s promotion and...

The G20 meeting here is a big deal. Not because you should believe all the nice things that will be said about our city in the next 6 months, but because others will. http://www.postgazette.com/pg/09148/973412-82.stm

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this morning lashed out against two campaigns for indirectly claiming that they received the paper’s endorsement when they did not. Luke Ravenstahl prominently displayed the headline “City Weathering Financial Storm” from the post-gazette. Choosing that headline over “Dowd for Mayor: The Councilman has the Drive to Make...

Been a while since I did a Sour Kraut post, but I had two things to comment on and neither comment required a full post. So, it seemed like a good time to drag back out the German delicacy. Mike Woycheck closed down his blog. He may end up best...

This is the 300th post to the Blog of Burgher Jon. A couple accompanying statistics: This is one of the slowest trecks to 300 ever (due to several periods of blog neglect, including my current one). The blog originally began 7/29/2007, it suffered a period of dormancy almost immediately and...