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,
Here is the cure for fatigue from the state’s budget impasse and all that goes with it, including a warning this week that from the
Though there is nothing official on the state’s Department of Community and Economic Development page as of this writing, a published report and an announcement
As our most recent Brief noted, a proposal coming forward this week would make a series of one time transfers from the surpluses of special/restricted
Nearly a year ago–September 28th will mark the anniversary–the Supreme Court struck down language in the 2004 law legalizing slot machine gaming as it pertains
It has been ten years since the Duquesne School District’s high school program was shuttered and students reassigned to the nearby districts of West Mifflin
At tomorrow’s City Council meeting there are two separate resolutions (here and here) instructing the City Controller to examine, through a performance audit, the City’s
The term “commuter tax” has generated discussion over the decades in Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania (here we are limiting the term to apply to a
In a blog entry from March of 2016 we noted that eight counties had taken action to authorize collection of the $5 additional fee for
