ADB Commissions Special Study on Pittsburgh Studies

Christ, not this shit again:

Pittsburgh Councilman William Peduto, a mayoral candidate, introduced legislation today to study how to encourage development in city neighborhoods.

"The redevelopment of our neighborhoods is integral to the future vitality of our city," he said in a press release. "We must carefully study the economic impact of any new program to ensure that we are using the appropriate tool to address the problem."

Mr. Peduto wants the city to spend as much as $10,000 for a study that would be conducted by Steve Zecher, a former city development official who is now a consultant based in Israel.

For the love of GOD! WOULD EVERYONE PLEASE STOP DOING FUCKING STUDIES ON WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH!

Seriously. This is getting out of hand. Does it seem to anybody else that this region is pathologically obsessed with eternal naval gazing? Can we not undertake a policy without it being examined, re-examined, having the examination examined, and then having the examination of the examination re-examined? Have we been reduced to municipal Hamlets*, afraid of acting without deep reflection until everyone lies dead around us and the Norwegian crown prince has taken over?

At this point is it a search for real practical wisdom in the Aristotelian sense, or is it just merely pseudo-intellectual masturbation?

And if it is the latter, it better damn well come with a box of Kleenex.

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*No pun intended.

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