Category: Blog

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

Last week we wrote about a pending class action lawsuit in Allegheny County over a school district appeal of a property value; south of Allegheny

Altoona (Blair County) is awaiting word from state Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) as to whether it can exit Act 47 distressed status.