In an article today describing the state’s transition to a shorter time period for administering the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) there was passage
We’ve written a few times about the City’s newest department of Mobility and Infrastructure (created in 2017, here and here) and how it overlapped and
Today marks the one year anniversary of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision on the local share assessment (host fee) that casinos pay to the county
Earlier this summer we wrote about the concern municipal officials in the communities comprising the Woodland Hills School District had with the state of the
The Mayor of Pittsburgh submitted the 2018 operating and capital budgets and five year forecast to the Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority (oversight board) on Friday to
Monday’s Brief noted a proposal to take $50 million from the Public Transportation Trust Fund (PTTF) to move it, along with other special fund surpluses,
As we wrote about earlier this year, Washington County put into effect its reassessment, the first since the 1980s. Along with new values (the County
On September 20, S and P lowered PA’s bond rating to A+, a drop from AA- taking it to the third lowest rating of all
We blogged last week about Altoona (Blair County) being released from a relatively short stay in Act 47 distressed status (the official note on the
The September 15 release of August labor market data brought confirmation that the state has not been able to improve its underlying slow growth. Indeed,
