Sponsorship and Admission
Rather than putting a fence around Point State Park and charging $5 per head for admission, why not just enforce a two drink minimum?
The worry of security and the need to put up fences to keep out roving gangs is a hurtful ploy that spreads FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt). The two drink minimum could dovetail with the new, Mayor-Murphy-proposed tax on alchohol.
Rather than celebrate the historic Lewis-and-Clark adventures, let's revisit the Whiskey Rebellion and fight against the rising tide of taxes. The tax on "spirits" has been attempted. It failed then too.
You Don't Gotta Regatta
When the Regatta was on the brink of closing a couple of years ago, organizers should have put a fork in it. The event was riddled with poor management. The Regatta should have closed. Rather, Jim Roddey went to great ends to raise funds to save the sinking ship. In a free market, a floundering event should float away into nothingness. Then something much better can take its place. Kill the Regatta. Perhaps the next Regatta some years away will have something to do with boats and the river. The Regatta that serves Pittsburgh in recent years is a drinking fest filled with corporate sponsors and corporate welfare that punishes the park.
