Summary: The Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) has lost a significant percentage of its public school student count since 2000.  At the same time the spending per student has risen twice as fast as the rate of inflation during the … Continue reading →

Over a decade ago we wrote a Brief on a legislative proposal to charge a $100 per resident fee for municipalities with 10,000 or more residents that relied on the state police for local service.  With 2,500 municipalities in the … Continue reading →

Mark A. Thomas has been chosen as the next president of the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance (PRA), effective July 15. He’ll come to Pittsburgh from New York, where he served as senior vice president of partnerships at the New York City … Continue reading →