Category: Blog

Pittsburghers for Public Transit have given the Port Authority a list of recommendations regarding the hiring of a new CEO. And what a list it

The City Controller’s office released the Popular Annual Financial Report for 2016.  It is essentially a boiled down and condensed version of the Comprehensive Annual

The proposed increase in the City’s portion of the realty transfer tax (currently 2%, with the school district and the state levying the tax at

Like the state, school districts started their fiscal year on July 1st.  In Washington County, where the first reassessment since the 1980s has gone into

The Commonwealth imposes a special levy on wholesale gasoline—which gets passed to consumers at the pump—to provide funds for building Turnpike Projects. The Commonwealth forces

The City of Pittsburgh’s Finance Department has constructed and launched a webpage that shows City owned property available for sale.  The website is here. Details

An article this week covered the recent sale of county nursing homes in Armstrong and Washington Counties.  The article notes that the number of counties

A month ago we wrote about municipal officials in Lackawanna County in northeast PA urging the Board of County Commissioners to conduct a reassessment, something

Two news items related to the Port Authority, whose fiscal year begins tomorrow: first, the implementation of the cashless system and proof of payment enforcement

The September 2015 statement by the then-superintendent of the Wilkinsburg School District should have been quite ominous: “…taxes will not decrease if Wilkinsburg High School