Anybody for a tea party?

It's a sunny day projecting into the 60s in Pittsburgh today, which qualifies as a perfect day for a tax-day Tea Party -- the usual suspects are due at Market Square at noon, with the interesting addition of the spokesman for Marcellus shale drillers Range Resources.

As we while away the hours, please see Dan Malloy's story on the indigestion facing some Republicans over their party's lead proposal to restructure Medicare/Medicaid.

Jon Schmitz has a follow-up on criticisms of a federal recommendation against privatizing state-owned liquor stores (a story I broke in yesterday's paper).