The article spent a lot of time explaining that this project moved so fast because it was declared an emergency. Rt. 28 work is not.

Megalithic corporations? Large stones?

Who is stopping you from joining your local party committee and helping to nominate candidates? For local office, you'd have a lot of say in who gets endorsed by the party. I know it's a different story for higher office, but a lot of elected officials in those higher offices get their start at the local level.

I think it would have been nicer for Iran to advance and give the team a wider forum to make their protests against the regime.

I'm not bootlicking - just trying to understand this issue better and trying to correct misinformation about what being a "nonprofit" does and doesn't mean.

Nonprofits simply must reinvest any profits back into their organization, rather than give them out as dividends to owners or shareholders. US Steel, Alcoa, etc, do the latter, so they aren't nonprofits.

I believe there's also some kind of requirement for nonprofits to spend a certain amount of money on community benefits, which is broader than just charity care. I don't know if they adhere to that rule or not.

Should all nonprofits pay taxes? Why should these nonprofits pay taxes and not others? Does it have to do with size?

Non-profits are absolutely allowed to "make a profit" in that they can bring in more money than they spend in a given period. And of course they should be able to do that - think how hard it would be to run an organization if your expenses had to always match your income.

What nonprofits can't do is take those profits home in the form of dividends. They have to be reinvested in the organization.

Being a nonprofit also has absolutely nothing to do with the salaries of executives. I think there are good reasons those salaries shouldn't be exorbitant, but it's not related to their nonprofit status. It's not the "charity" sector where qualified professionals should be expected to take a pay cut.

>The city really needs to strip them of their non profit status.

I get why UPMC is a terrible employer and I support efforts to fix that, like unionization and better regulation. But I don't get what that has to do with their nonprofit status.

>UPMC is especially disgusting in that they claim to be a "nonprofit" and they don't pay property taxes despite being the second-largest (as of 6 years ago when I started there) employer in Pennsylvania.

I don't understand this point. Can a nonprofit not be large?

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I've always found this rather strange, considering so many people simply adopt the religion they were raised with and never really considered doing otherwise. Yet still people will vehemently defend a choice they never really made themselves.

Traffic is one of the few natural phenomena that complains about itself.

Yeah, I think this just comes with the territory when we have to rely entirely on driving for almost every trip. Cars need an incredible amount of road space and those roads need regular maintenance.

Lawns of any length aren't great for biodiversity. Our lawns can basically host pillbugs, worms, and ants and that's pretty much it.

Also, many insects require lots of leaf litter or plant debris on the ground for laying eggs or overwintering. So you can make sure you have lots of habitat for them by leaving leaves on the ground.