oi do you have a loicense to speak your mind?

Yeah except they didn’t previous have 130 separate municipalities inside them dimwit.

> Allegheny is way too big area wise for it to work.

 
This is provably false since cities larger than Allegheny County exist.

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

And? It’s also hundreds of miles from Allegheny and had a development pattern nothing like it.

There should be an ethics investigation and then he should resign based on what the ethics committee finds

Are you sure you aren’t an idiot?

Yep, that's the entire problem, every little local mucketymuck wants to keep their fiefdoms.
 
As much as Texas annoys me, they had the right idea with their consolidated school districts and hospital districts.

The whole point is that the school in this situation does have a Christ club. If they cancelled all religious clubs, it would be equal treatment, but they didn’t.

If you're in Lancaster Co, I would highly recommend heading over to the smorgasbord in Bird in Hand. There's nothing really like PA Dutch cooking

Having had to deal with the county regarding behavioral health and various different school districts I agree. There are lots of municipalities that would benefit from this, but I simply don't think that the "merger" would go smoothly. I think a lot of the bigger, more affluent municipalities would fight it tooth and nail because they'd lose their affluence.

Wow. Talk about dense.

Great minds

>there needs to be a formal investigation to determine if allegations are credible or not

I think some folks are confusing sexual harassment with sexual abuse. One requires a criminal investigation with due process rights regardless of the accused's place in life, the other needs only credible allegations. For a solitary accusation, there may be a need to determine credibility in an accusation but when there is more than one accusation a pattern of behavior has developed and credibility runs in favor of those levying the accusations.

Hill country honky Tonkin Rita Bellew?

It's a called a "merger" instead of "annexation" for a reason.
 
The city has ~300K people, the county another 1m outside of city limits. If Pittsburgh were allowed to grow via annexation like any other city, it would have absorbed most of that million people a long time ago.
 
The second class city law of 1901 fucked Pittsburgh over bad and turned this county into a total mess. There is no reason to have 120 or so separate municipalities and 40 different school districts for 1.3m people.

No worries here.

Did someone say the Spanish Inquisition!

I think the key there is "credible" and who decides what's credible or not. It doesn't need to be a technical crime, but there needs to be a formal investigation to determine if allegations are credible or not.

No shit, sherlock.

We are not talking about a regular man on the street. Instead, Zabel is an elected official. Standard for behavior should be higher for him. I can be ok with giving him a second chance, but there is that 2nd woman. And there is the GQP controlled Ethics Commission which did absolutely nothing.

Lyndon J was a piece of shit, do not emulate or look up to the man.

It all comes down to money and manpower then. Allegheny county would basically have to absorb the city of Pittsburgh, not the other way around - along with all the outlying townships.

For example, the city has been losing police personnel to the outlying townships. They left for a reason. Even social services are all all county-based. OTOH all the major highways are maintained by the state. The city OTOH struggles to maintain the city streets.

It's ok. We are good. I misread your comment also. Peace.

Agreed.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to say you were implying it was okay.