{"id":2004841,"date":"2023-08-18T12:34:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/salena-zito-suggests-pittsburghs-problem-is-its-government-cant-eclipse-politics\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:36:00","slug":"salena-zito-suggests-pittsburghs-problem-is-its-government-cant-eclipse-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/salena-zito-suggests-pittsburghs-problem-is-its-government-cant-eclipse-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Salena Zito claims Pittsburgh&#8217;s issue lies in its government&#8217;s inability to transcend politics."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsalena-zito-suggests-pittsburghs-problem-is-its-government-cant-eclipse-politics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2004841&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Fall\u200b of a Great \u2062American\u2063 City: The Societal and Political Decay that has Upended Pittsburgh<\/h2>\n<p>The Washington Examiner&#8217;s Salena Zito recently provided an insightful \u2064analysis of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a proud &#8220;Yinzer&#8221; herself,\u200b meaning someone from Pittsburgh, Zito admitted that writing this story was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-biden-to-unveil-immigration-agenda-next-tuesday\/\" title=\"Psaki: Biden to unveil immigration agenda next Tuesday\">incredibly challenging<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our \u200dformer mayors have all been exceptional managers who understood that ideology should\u2062 not \u2063overshadow the importance of governing and managing the city,&#8221; Zito\u200d explained. &#8220;Unfortunately, \u200bthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/salena-zito-suggests-pittsburghs-problem-is-its-government-cant-eclipse-politics\/\" title=\"Salena Zito claims Pittsburgh's issue lies in its government's inability to transcend politics.\">current city government lacks<\/a> this understanding, and it \u200cis \u200bcausing significant \u200cproblems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In her editorial, Zito highlights the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/20-attorneys-general-push-back-on-bidens-plans-to-advance-deeply-flawed-critical-race-theory-1619-project\/\" title=\"20 Attorneys General Push Back On Biden\u2019s Plans To Advance \u2018Deeply Flawed\u2019 Critical Race Theory, 1619 Project\">alarming increase<\/a> in homelessness and\u200d crime, resulting \u2064in a staggering 22.5%\u2062 vacancy\u200b rate in Pittsburgh.\u2063 She also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/20-gop-state-ags-oppose-biden-atf-nominee\/\" title=\"20 GOP State AGs Oppose Biden ATF Nominee\">expresses concern<\/a> about the hostile\u2064 environment where any\u2064 dissenting\u2063 opinion is met \u2062with attacks \u200dand accusations\u2063 of bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Ed Gainey, a Democrat who\u200c took office \u2064in January 2022, is a central figure in Zito&#8217;s analysis. She reveals that Gainey has chosen\u2062 not to engage\u2064 with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), \u2062the\u200d city&#8217;s crown jewel,\u200b due \u200bto its refusal to \u2063unionize with \u200dthe Service Employees \u2062International Union (SEIU). \u200cUPMC happens to be the largest employer \u2063in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly,\u2063 the SEIU contributed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-please-create-an-executive-order-and-have-2020-ballots-and-images-audited-in-select-states-using-jovan-pulitzer-method\/\" title=\"President Trump PLEASE CREATE AN EXECUTIVE ORDER and Have 2020 Ballots and Images Audited in Select States Using Jovan Pulitzer Method\">significant amount<\/a> of $350,000 to Gainey&#8217;s campaign, making\u2062 it his largest contributor.<\/p>\n<p>To delve deeper into this thought-provoking \u200danalysis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">click here<\/a> to read\u200c more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Examiner&#8217;s Salena Zito discussed her analysis of Pittsburgh&#8217;s decline. In her op-ed, &#8220;The fall of a great American city,&#8221; she explored the societal and political decay affecting the city. During an interview on Fox News, Zito, a Pittsburgh native or &#8220;Yinzer,&#8221; acknowledged her personal connection to the topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2004842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}