Publius Awakened

Student Government Board President Charlie Shull started the semester off right when he disclosed the location of a traditionally secret SGB retreat and promised to increase transparency in SGB through his “Behind the Glass Door” program.
Before last night’s meeting, Shull’s proposal last week to move SGB meetings from the eighth floor of the Union down [...]

Student Government Board President Charlie Shull will be unveiling a significant change in the allocations procedure at tonight’s SGB meeting. Designed to increase transparency, the allocations decision-making process will now take place during the public meetings on Tuesday nights rather than in the closed-door meetings of the allocations committee, Shull said.
Shull said that this is [...]

The Pittsburgh Department of Public Works banned sledding on a hill in Frick Park and one in Schenley Park last week erecting a number of signs that read “no sled riding permitted” in bold red letters, the Post-Gazette reported.
Described as a “public service announcement” by Director of Public Works Rob Kaczorowski, the ban can be [...]

This year’s Student Government Board is comprised of nine talented student leaders whose individual initiatives could make this university a better place.
For instance, board member Zack Bombatch wants to see every Pitt shuttle stop physically marked similar to the way that current Port Authority routes are marked. Bombatch said that his role is to talk [...]

Some of you might have noticed newly inaugurated Student Government Board President Charlie Shull’s comments in Thursday’s Pitt News where he said that he “couldn’t discuss specific goals the new board wants to accomplish” until after SGB’s two-day retreat at an “undisclosed location.”
I was mildly surprised by Shull’s lack of specifics but the two-day retreat [...]

If you spend $21,765 on a new Honda Accord, you can choose to customize at least 30 different features on the car including whether it’s a manual or automatic, what kind of mats are on the inside and if it comes with a first aid kit or not. You can customize the car to fit [...]

Freshly back from break and facing a new semester un-menaced by proposals for a tuition tax, I understand how tempting it must be to turn our collective eyes away from local issues and once again focus our advocacy on Africa’s ills but to do so would be shortsighted.
A lot has happened while we’ve been away [...]

Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is perhaps the most famous work of pro-liberty fiction. Surprising as it may seem, Rand’s juggernaut novels are outstanding examples of the genre but they are not alone in advancing liberty through fiction.
Of course, I recognize that suggesting that Rand is not in a league of her own in advancing liberty [...]

The Mayor’s New Year’s Eve veto of the prevailing wage legislation promises to dominate Pittsburgh politics for at least the next few weeks. City Council called an emergency meeting to override the veto, Council personalities clashed and nothing was accomplished amidst allegations that the meeting was illegal.
The most forceful allegations of illegality came from Councilman [...]