Our political blog vicennial means seeing familiar faces in all the old, familiar places 

Dan Gilman as Chief of Staff

Ricky Burgess as Director of Community Impact

Yarone Zober as Director of Redevelopment

Corey Buckner as Manager of Community Affairs

My jaw dropped when I saw Burgess and Zober were part of the O’Connor 2.0 Administration

It is like a b-side of the greatest hits of my first decade of blogging. This is the fantasy team of Peduto-Ravenstahl fan folx. Has any out LGBTQ person been appointed beyond Jason Lando? Any progressives on the team?

I cannot believe I’ll be writing about these same folks as I enter my 21st year of blogging. I really miss the Burgosphere – Angry Drunk Bureaucrat, both the Political Junkies, Pittsburgh Comet, Froth, Infinonymous, Null Space, where are thous?

Some of the bureaucrats do not like me. That’s probably why I haven’t been appointed to anything yet. But my phone line is open. I’m here to serve.

For the record, I do not believe any religious honorific has a place in municipal government so I will always refer to Ricky Burgess as Ricky Burgess or Director Burgess or Mr. Burgess. Also, I will always refer to Yarone Zober as Yarone Zober because it is fun to type. Remember this photo circa 2014?

Parody of Yarone Zober dating to 2014