Post-Gazette Column Ruffles Feathers in Bridgeville
Bridgeville residents and officials are baffled over a column published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that likens the borough council to the disarray in Libya.
A column published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that likens Bridgeville Borough Council to the disarray in Libya has baffled the community’s residents and government officials. Columnist Dan Simpson wrote an opinion piece in the P-G on Dec. 5 about why the U.S. should not become engaged in more wars when he, for some reason, cited the tiny borough’s government council. While opining about potential problems should the Syrian regime fall to rebel forces, Simpson wrote this sentence: “If the opposition were to somehow take power in Syria, there is every reason to believe it would make today's disorder in post-Gadhafi Libya – no authority, no law and order – look like the Bridgeville Borough Council by comparison.” That sentence ruffled …
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Mike Jones
3:25 pm on Monday, July 25, 2011
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