Ralph R. Reiland: Dismal economic indicators
The bad news about Pittsburgh is that even the good news is a reflection of what's wrong.
On what's good about our region, for instance, we're told that houses are cheap, the air's cleaner, traffic isn't bad and crime is low.
In fact, each of those allegedly positive indicators is a direct consequence of our long history of political blunders and the subsequent disintegration of the local economy.
Kill off what's left of the local economy, force the young to leave the region for jobs, and we'll have no traffic, even cleaner air, really cheap houses and near-zero crime. Geezers don't do a lot of muggings.
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