Archive Folders Volume 1 |Volume 2 |Volume 3 |Volume 4 |Volume 5 |Volume 6 |Volume 7 |Volume 8 Volume 6 Issue # Title Available Online Vol6 No66 Assessing the Chief Assessor Yes Vol6 No65 Where Are the Predicted Transit Riders? Yes Vol6 No64 Parking Tax Ruckus in Pittsburgh Yes Vol6 No63 The Transportation Report: Road Map to PAT Solvency? Yes Vol6 No62 Dig A Hole and Fill It Up: A Metaphor for a Pittsburgh Approach to Job Creation Yes Vol6 No61 Pittsburgh Schools: Preposterously Expensive But Still Unable to Hold Students Yes Vol6 No60 PA Jobs: Up Some, But Lag Well Behind National Pace Yes Vol6 No59 Port Authority Employee Costs Gallop Higher Yes Vol6 No58 City Property Tax Revenues Not Growing Yes Vol6 No57 The Undermining of Madison’s Competing Factions Principle Yes Vol6 No56 Office Vacancy Rate Continues to Climb in Pittsburgh Yes Vol6 No55 Making Sense of The 2007 Tax Foundation State Business Tax Climate Index Yes Vol6 No54 PAT Driver Pay Gouges Taxpayers Yes Vol6 No53 Another Useless Ranking Yes Vol6 No52 Pittsburgh’s Stalled Wage Tax Receipts Yes Vol6 No51 Making Pennsylvania’s Business Tax Climate Competitive Yes Vol6 No50 Pittsburgh Job Growth Soft: Complaints Loud and Misplaced Yes Vol6 No49 Teachers Strike; Pennsylvania Strikes Out Yes Vol6 No48 Predictable Effects of Tax-Supported Mega Malls Come to Light Yes Vol6 No47 Commiserating with the Commission Yes Vol6 No46 Duquesne Schools: More Money is not the Solution Yes Vol6 No45 SAT State of Affairs Yes Vol6 No44 Assessment Ball in Court’s Court Yes Vol6 No43 Governor Brags About Lamentable Job Growth Yes Vol6 No42 Federal Transit Bureaucracy Fails Taxpayers Yes Vol6 No41 Pennsylvania Lags Other States in Voter Control of School Taxes Yes Vol6 No40 Pittsburgh Jobs Picture a Little Better but Not Good Yes Vol6 No39 Take a Gander at a Company That Deserves Applause Yes Vol6 No38 Pittsburgh and Duquesne: A Match not Made in Heaven Yes Vol6 No37 Transit Agencies Throw Commission Under the Bus Yes Vol6 No36 Lessons From Charlotte That Pittsburgh Refuses to Learn Yes Vol6 No35 PAT Chairman Repeats Bogus Arguments for Tunnel Yes Vol6 No34 Labor Force Slipping in the Pittsburgh Region Yes Vol6 No33 Minimum Wage, Maximum Pandering Yes Vol6 No32 PAT’s White Elephant Deep in the Red Yes Vol6 No31 Gubernatorial Jobs Hype Rings Hollow Yes Vol6 No30 Comparing Housing Markets Yes Vol6 No29 Union Membership Levels and Job Growth in U.S. Metro Areas Yes Vol6 No28 Eating and Drinking in the Pittsburgh Region Yes Vol6 No27 Reducing Property Taxes Yes Vol6 No26 Overly Powerful Public Sector Unions Yes Vol6 No25 Pittsburgh’s 2006 Budget Yes Vol6 No24 Revenues from Pittsburgh’s New Tax Structure Yes Vol6 No23 A Minimum Wage Reality Check Yes Vol6 No22 Ineptitude Has Become a Hallmark of the Port Authority Yes Vol6 No21 They’re Still Leaving Allegheny County Yes Vol6 No20 Pittsburgh’s Future: The Real Story Yes Vol6 No19 Transit Labor Negotiations in Pittsburgh and Denver: Different Planets Yes Vol6 No18 Economics 101 for Teachers Yes Vol6 No17 Overhyped Economic Impact of Playoff Games Yes Vol6 No16 Pittsburgh’s Job Picture: the Sad, the Bad, and the Ugly Yes Vol6 No15 Base Year Assessments: Bad Policy, Bad Court Decision Yes Vol6 No14 More Lessons from a Teachers’ Union Yes Vol6 No13 Boston and Pittsburgh: Who Knew? Yes Vol6 No12 A Much Better Plan B Yes Vol6 No11 Dueling Casinos Yes Vol6 No10 A Dose of Reality for City Council Yes Vol6 No9 Learning from the North Hills Teachers’ Union Yes Vol6 No8 An Update on Pittsburgh Convention Center Attendance Yes Vol6 No7 The Connector’s Last Gasp? Yes Vol6 No6 A Colossal Failure of Public School Policies Yes Vol6 No5 A 21st Century Rail Holdup Yes Vol6 No4 The Extravagant Cost of PAT Operations Yes Vol6 No3 Another Half-Baked Scheme to Solve Regional Problems Yes Vol6 No2 Lots of State Spending But Few Jobs Yes Vol6 No1 Tax Dollar Misuse for PNC Project Yes