Trib: Sibling rivalry possible on Mt. Lebanon board

Small-town government is notorious for its bickering. In Mt. Lebanon, a sibling rivalry could ratchet the drama to new highs -- or lows.

School board candidate James Cannon won his race in the primary Tuesday on a platform of change. His big sister, Josephine Posti, is the board president.

There's more:

-- He's a Republican. She's a Democrat.

-- He opposes the controversial renovation of the high school. She supports it.

Neither Posti nor Cannon would discuss their relationship, or even the last time they talked or saw each other.

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• www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_737885.html (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

Almanac Letter: Mt. Lebanon blog is entertaining

Here at Blog-Lebo, we have always striven to offer our readers the very best in entertainment value. Now, in a letter to The Almanac, we learn that our efforts have finally been recognized:

In recent weeks, Blog Lebo has reached new heights for entertainment value. The blog, originally started as a thoughtful and well written series of comments on Mt. Lebanon, eventually became so nutty that the originator walked away.

Many people, who read it now for the first time, assume it is a parody due to the hilarious comments from the handful of people who have an opinion on everything and anything.

They seem to fall into two categories, the tin hat society or the "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore" group. In recent blogs, one of them suggests that "the entire school board must be communists if they don't sell all of the school buildings, fire half of the teachers and put everyone into one building in order to save money".

The other group, led by a former school director who was forced to resign, advocates that anything other than English and science classes should not be the responsibility of the school district and should be paid for separately with money raised by volunteers.

If anyone dares to disagree with their comments, the rebuttals are similar to taunts from fourth-graders on the play ground, ("Apparently you can't read English!"). The fact that five people make up 90 percent of the comments should make this thing so tedious and silly that most people put it in the same context as the nut cases who walk around with signs proclaiming the end of the world.

Since less than .01% of the people who read this paper actually read the blog, I am afraid this is the case. However, I would encourage people to read the blog as an alternative to the astrology section or the comics. It is certainly more entertaining than either.

James Cannon

I would like to correct one error in Mr. Cannon’s letter. It says that Blog-Lebo’s founder walked away from our beloved blog after it became too “nutty.” I have been in touch with our founder, Mr. Mike Madision, and he assures me that Mr. Cannon is mistaken. The reason he left, he told me, is because Blog-Lebo was not nutty enough.

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• Mt. Lebanon blog is entertaining (The Almanac)