Where’s the History Channel or Discover Channel show on river salvagers to take care of this mess for us?

This looks really cool! how does someone apply? is it only through Facebook?

You live in a dumpy place.

the expanding access schtick is used to justify everything and anything.

In dentistry corporate DSO's use it to justify them owning and pulling money out of the entire system and allowing them to outright own offices. To expand access to care - yet all they do is open offices in highly competitive markets and close them in rural areas.

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I don’t know. I’ll have to look into that. I’m not pretending to have the answer.

It's like a car that's rusted itself in place. The price to get it moved is probably more than its worth in scrap, which is all this is likely good for.

Was it a bad idea for Boston? Even Erie gets more from their faux non-profits than PGH.

And educating 90% of the criminals.

How dare you want to safely walk down a street. Propel is educating 90% of the criminals.

Here's a better article, which this story deserves.

https://www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-upmc-tax-exempt-properties-mayor-gainey-challenge/

At least not right now, no, mostly secondary to staffing and organization. Unless having cancer crisis because they have a cancer doctor or PA there at all times!

So a minority owner is a big game hunter is the problem or that they switched back to tipping?

Because there’s nothing there that would tell me not to support this business.

Pittsburgh's non-farm job growth was an anemic 1.8% in February 2023. One of the lowest rates in the country. Compared to other similarly sized cities, Nashville 4.5%. Austin 4.8%. Indianapolis 3.3%. Portland 2.9%. Charlotte 3.1%. Raleigh 3.9%. Seattle 3.7%. Jacksonville 5.6%...

Columbus was a surprisingly low .7%, but they also just landed the $20 billion Intel plant, so there's that.

Hilarious, downvoting actual stats from the US BLS. Pittsburgh's job growth rate is basically half the national average, and this sub thinks that's okay.

Is revoking the tax-exempt status of some properties the same as revoking an entity's non-profit status in its entirety?

I'm sure this will end up in court, nailing down the specifics of that distinction. Either way, this will likely be the most significant thing any mayor of Pittsburgh has done for a very long time. For a city with this many non-taxable entities and properties, this will have a major impact on city finances.

Not just UPMC but Pitt and CMU as well. I'm too lazy to do it but I bet if you highlight all the properties they own or at least have major stake in across the city you look at like 1/4 of the city is taken up by them.

Zarra's in North Oakland. Hidden gem for italian food really

UPMC pays taxes on their health insurance division. They have two different entities, one that is non-profit hospitals, and the other is a good old fashioned health insurance company that guts you. The latter pays taxes.

Abandoned boats are always curious to me. It would make sense they'd just say "you have x days to claim the boat if you are the owner" and then if not offer the boat to the highest bidder/salvager.

This is kinda how it works for cars without titles, you advertise for the current title holder to come claim it and make reasonable attempts for them to claim it, if they do not then you can assume ownership.

The article posted here yesterday talks about this. The short answer is yes but it's a long process. Also this boat is pretty much worthless at this point.

People here will bite off their nose to spite their face just to stick it to UPMC because UPMC sucks. But all of these decisions would affect AHN and any other health provider.

If people think health care is expensive, wait until hospitals have to shift costs they would lose from other areas.

Gainey isn’t the first to try this and it won’t go the way he plans because it’s a bad idea

Fundraiser tonight at James Cafe! 6-8!!!! Wine and charcuterie!! Come donate!!!

I don't enjoy interactions with insults, but I'll respond one last time.

If you care about the money, then saying "great, $36m" should instead be: "it sucks, we are still have $79m ($115-$36m) less than what we should to fund important stuff". It's not whataboutism: it's about the scale of the problem, and that small victories don't compensate (in my view) for much bigger screw-ups.

As for your other message (which I missed): I'm not afraid of anything? Why would I be afraid? As I said twice: it's great that they are getting this money (if they ever get it). But I would feel better if (a) they hadn't wasted three times that amount for seemingly no good reason, and (b) I was confident they would use it on something more else than more law enforcement.

In the end, I find this administration disappointing: it neither provides progressive policies (universal income was abandoned on day 1, the PD gets more money than ever, blaming local residents for lack of check on crime) nor more centrist ones (see the thread about downtown). At this stage, I find the weekly "CommUnity" tweets hard to swallow. But given the downvotes I'm receiving, I'm glad to see that others are more optimistic.

With this being said: this is one of these discussions which would be easier around a beer. I wouldn't be surprised if we agreed on more than what our exchange would suggest.

Interesting…damn these things suck even more than I realized

What about AHN?