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Kovacevic: Mayor pledges ‘civic morality’ on Pirates

Bill Peduto, Pittsburgh's mayor, reached out to me Monday night via Twitter regarding the column I published here earlier in the day about forcing the Pirates to become accountable to an increasingly angry, distrusting public.

His initial reply focused, as did a lot of the general reaction, on my section challenging public officials, including him, to challenge Bob Nutting on the team's finances, the most consistent source of skepticism.

The full tweet:

Dejan, still haven’t read post. Spent late afternoon reading this https://t.co/BOCeItxhoL. Couldn’t find anything that binds performance.