Ron smiley
Ron smiley
@rsmiley.bsky.social
Weather guy. Lives in Pittsburgh. Father of two amazing young women.
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US Steel joined many other businesses in appealing their property taxes. A settlement with Mon Valley governments cut the steel giant's bills and means years of tight budgets for towns and schools www.publicsource.org/us-steel-tax...
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This thread saw the future. Well reasoned and thought out.
The Russia sanctions bill that Congress finally passed last night has got a lot of attention. But although it's good to see Congress willing to put some pressure on the White House, I doubt it will actually result in sanctions on Russia (obviously, I hope I'm wrong). 🧵
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I'm at the Allegheny County Courthouse where the attorney for Patrick Vereb just told the judge they've got a plea agreement. Discussion about how to accommodate victims at sentencing in January because the Commonwealth has 10,000+ victim impact statements. KDKA'S prior coverage:
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You have to start putting people in jail for this. Start with the owner of the company that took down the trees. He gets out when he makes who hired him. Did he know about the court order? Then keep going up the rungs 🪜. Puts responsibility on the decision makers.
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Reyes is furious. She has repeatedly told the government to inform her before any major demolition work was done on the golf course. The abrupt removal of 500 trees, without notice, "has cost the government all of its credibility" in this case.
Often times people will say ‘they said the quiet part out loud’. Hegseth’s remarks are exactly that. If the Ft Hood shooter was a white Christian male, streaming their execution wouldn’t be happening. Don’t take my word for it just listen to the Secretary’s remarks. We already knew this though.
EXCLUSIVE @rephuffman.bsky.social tells me that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's remarks about Nidal Hasan's executions raise legal issues with livestreaming it. And that they merit Hegseth's impeachment.
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The First Amendment wasn’t actually “first.” The original First Amendment was meant to ensure that the House of Representatives grew in loose proportion to the country. Instead, the House’s size hasn’t changed since 1911. Today’s “One First” on that history—and the problems a capped House creates: