McCandless Crossings

Last year, I questioned whether we really needed all these new developments and could not reuse what we have already developed.  Anyone who travels McKnight Road regularly sees the devistation of the woods around the intersection of McKnight Road and Duncan.  I never realized how big this area is going to be.

My 8-year-old son commented how sad it was that all the trees are gone.  Do we really need to make McKnight Road one giant sprawl from Pittsburgh all the way to Cranberry?

Fostering Competition

A Republican friend of mine was complaining that there should be a voucher system or some other way to fund private schools as a way to "Foster Competition" with the public schools as a way to improve them.  Should we call this the "Private Option"?

I told him that if you replace the word "school" with "health care" and change "private option" to "public option" you have the exact reason why we need a public option in his own words.