EDITORIAL: Alle-Kiski Tuesday takes [The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]

Oct. 23--Lots of paving: Look for more roads to be paved throughout the Alle-Kiski Valley in 2013 as municipalities receive money from the Marcellus shale gas impact fee. In some municipalities with lots of wells, the money amounts to as much as 16 percent of its yearly budget.

Rate-jackers: Highmark Inc. is proposing another 10 percent premium increase for tens of thousands of small-business employees. Turns out, health insurance is a lot like college tuition -- the more you subsidize something, the more expensive it becomes. Indeed, health care must be reformed. But the best place to start would be with insurance reform, returning to point-of-service payments for less-expensive care and reserving insurance coverage for more catastrophic events, as once was the case.

Lateral move: Karen Kenzevich's move from the Apollo Council into the mayor's office solves one problem, but creates another -- who's going to fill her council seat? It's not like there's a line to slap that hornet's nest.

Congrats!: The New Kensington Rotary Club celebrates its 75th anniversary this evening with a dinner at the Oakmont Country Club. What the New Ken Rotarians do -- both locally and around the world -- is nothing short of amazing.

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