YinzPitt

Well, it looks to be like were still alive in Pittsburgh.  The Health Care Reform bill has passed, the Penguins lost in the last seconds of overtime, and Pitt lost to Xavier again in the NCAA tournament.  Hell, I even missed the #FF question last week.  It’s as if this whole weekend was shot due to some kind of magical tournament with NCAA basketball teams that comes around once a year.

Not only is it another typical Pittsburgh Monday weather wise(crap with a side of crap), the same happened for the news so far.  Almost absolutely nothing good has happened.  About the only thing that has happened so far today is that the Mayor’s office is ecstatic that investors are rolling in with proposals for the parking garages:

Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s administration is “thrilled” with investor interest in its parking garage and meter lease plan, but isn’t yet ready to reveal the 11 teams that have sent in their resumes and hope to submit bids. It may be several weeks before the potential bidders are named.

The qualifications of interested parties were due late Friday, and the 11 teams that responded are believed to consist of at least one investor and one parking operator each. Mayoral spokeswoman Joanna Doven said today that the administration is thrilled “not only by the number of responses, but, as you will see soon, the amount of expertise we’ve seen in the bidders.”

Well whoopidie do.  That’s just fantastic news I guess.  I mean there really is nothing, outside of the non-new situation of Ben sexual transgressions, Tiger coming back to the Majors, and this Health Care thing.  That’s about it.  OH WAIT A SECOND, here’s another news shocker!  Pennsylvania’s $300 million construction season starts today officially:

Construction season moves into high gear this morning with major changes in traffic patterns on Route 65 at the Interstate 79 interchange in Glenfield.

Restrictions and/or ramp closings also resume today on Route 28 at Etna and the Fort Duquesne Bridge, Downtown, as the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation begins nearly $300 million in road and bridge work in Allegheny County.

That’s just fantastic…I’ve always enjoyed a heavy dose of traffic on the ride home from work!  Here’s to a better news day tomorrow, because as of now, we’ve got a whole lot of nothing.