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Volume 1
City of Pittsburgh finances
City of Pittsburgh
24
vol9
No: 39
The Best Laid Plans Not Good Enough
vol9
No: 40
Population Slide Continues in City and Region
vol9
No: 41
Pittsburgh Job Gains in Eds and Meds Are Not Unique
vol9
No: 42
Bluhm on the Hook: But Taxpayers May Get the Bill
vol9
No: 43
PAT Finances Suffer Despite New Contract
vol9
No: 44
Achievement Test Results and Education Spending
vol9
No: 45
Pittsburgh Schools Still Not Making the Grade
vol9
No: 46
Is The Eighth Grade PSSA Reading Exam Too Easy?
vol9
No: 47
Assessing Pittsburgh’s Casino
vol9
No: 48
What Would PA Gain By Consolidating School Districts?
vol9
No: 49
Pittsburgh Encounters Pension Reform and Doesn’t Like It
vol9
No: 50
Pittsburgh Casino Not Off to a Good Start
vol9
No: 51
Will Legacy Costs Force Pittsburgh Into Chapter 9 Bankruptcy?
vol9
No: 52
Casino Revenues Face Uphill Struggle
vol9
No: 53
What Happens in a Chapter 9 Bankruptcy?
vol9
No: 54
Here Comes the Judge…Again
vol9
No: 55
Is Pittsburgh’s Casino Being a Good Citizen?
vol9
No: 56
Another Example of Union Tone Deafness
vol9
No: 57
Wishful Jobs Thinking
vol9
No: 58
A Tax Ruling the Supreme Court Ought to Consider
vol9
No: 59
Pittsburgh’s Star-Crossed Casino not so Majestic
vol9
No: 60
G-20: Did Pittsburgh Come Out Ahead?
vol9
No: 61
Home Rule Law Needs to Be Revamped
vol9
No: 62
Lingering Problems at Pittsburgh International
vol9
No: 63
A Look at the 2010 Allegheny County Budget
vol9
No: 64
County Officials’ Assessment Confusion
vol9
No: 65
Eds and Meds Jobs: Another Look
vol9
No: 66
Clarifying Pittsburgh’s Employment Picture
vol9
No: 67
Pittsburgh Enrollment Decline Forecast to Continue
vol9
No: 68
County Council Oversteps Yet Again
vol9
No: 69
College Students: Welcome to Taxburgh
vol9
No: 70
Assessment Fiasco Gets New Life
vol9
No: 71
Summing Up the G-20 Summit
vol9
No: 72
Missing the Housing Boom
vol9
No: 73
Allegheny County Taxes: The Rest of the Story
vol9
No: 74
Labor Market Weakness Persists in the Pittsburgh Region
vol9
No: 75
Legislature Moves to Squash Tuition Tax
vol9
No: 76
Pittsburgh’s Worsening Policy Spiral
vol9
No: 77
Humbug: Coal to the Coalition for More Taxes
vol10
No: 02
Prevailing Gamesmanship
vol10
No: 03
Pittsburgh Tax Revenue: A Better Approach
vol10
No: 04
Mandated Wage Mania in Allegheny County
vol10
No: 05
More Reassessment Bluster from the Chief Executive
vol10
No: 06
Return of the Living Wage
vol10
No: 07
Penn Hills Teachers Strike: Mean-Spirited and Spiteful
vol10
No: 08
Harrisburg Contemplates Bankruptcy
vol10
No: 09
Mt. Lebanon Schools Becoming a Taxpayer Nightmare
vol10
No: 10
Can Johnstown Regain its Financial Footing?
vol10
No: 11
Pittsburgh’s Apologists Return with Bad Policy Suggestions
vol10
No: 12
Hard to Feel Sympathy for PAT
vol10
No: 13
Gaming Revenue Impact on Government Spending
vol10
No: 14
Recession Continued to Grip Region Through January
vol10
No: 15
Measuring Pittsburgh’s Financial Performance
vol10
No: 16
Has the Sun Set on Sunset Review in Allegheny County?
vol10
No: 17
Mt. Lebanon Condo Plan Falls Through—Again
vol10
No: 18
Are Public Pensions Becoming a Financial Suicide Pact?
vol10
No: 19
Strike Three: Tolling I-80 is Out!
vol10
No: 20
GreatSchools Ranking of Schools Flawed and Misleading
vol10
No: 21
The Bell Tolls for PAT: Do They Hear It?
vol10
No: 22
Pittsburgh’s Financial Watchdogs Lose Their Bark
vol10
No: 23
Candidates Spar Over Allegheny County Jobs: Who is Right?
vol10
No: 24
“Most Livable” a Dubious and Fleeting Honor
vol10
No: 25
Pittsburgh’s 0.3 Percent Solution Is a Very Bad Idea
vol10
No: 26
Pittsburgh Loses Again
vol10
No: 27
Teacher Union President Needs Some Education
vol10
No: 28
Another Year, Another Weak Start for Pirates Attendance
vol10
No: 29
Rivers Casino Revenues Up But Far Below Expectations
vol10
No: 30
Is Port Authority Headed for a Federal Bailout?
vol10
No: 31
Pennsylvania’s Anti-Growth Trifecta
vol10
No: 32
Rivers Casino Credit Rating Drops to Dismal Low
vol10
No: 33
Port Authority Irresponsibility: A Never Ending Story
vol10
No: 34
Governor Gets It Terribly Wrong on Education Spending
vol10
No: 35
What Will Council’s $250,000 Parking Study Accomplish?
vol10
No: 36
Pay for Performance: How Will it Play Out in Pittsburgh’s Schools?
vol10
No: 37
The Proposed Pittsburgh Parking Lease: A Look at the Numbers
vol10
No: 38
Pittsburgh’s Pension Solution: Between a Rock and Hard Place
vol10
No: 39
Flexible Healing of PAT is No Cure
vol10
No: 40
Pennsylvania is #1…in Teacher Strikes
vol10
No: 41
Has SPC Derailed Flex Plan?
vol1
No: 02
LAZARUS: More Bad News For Taxpayers
vol8
No: 39
State Pension Aid System is Fair to Pittsburgh
vol9
No: 02
Why the Surge in the Pittsburgh Region’s Labor Force?
vol9
No: 03
$553 Million and Counting for PAT’s Big Dig
vol9
No: 04
Proposal to Lease Parking to Fund Pensions Raises Opportunities, Questions
vol9
No: 05
Port Authority’s Convenient Memory Loss
vol9
No: 06
Recession Hits Region’s Employment
vol9
No: 07
Merger Advocates Need Better Arguments
vol9
No: 08
Proposal to Consolidate School Districts is a Distraction
vol9
No: 09
Pennsylvania’s Largest Municipal Pension Plans in Serious Trouble
vol9
No: 10
Fiscal Irresponsibility Reigns in Pittsburgh as Well as in Washington
vol9
No: 11
Regulators Dredging up Trouble for Western Pennsylvania
vol9
No: 12
Casino Led Renaissance?
vol9
No: 13
A City Ranking That Won’t Get Much Attention
vol9
No: 14
Differences in Municipal Taxes and Spending
vol9
No: 15
Stimulus Spending on Schools is Inept Public Policy
vol9
No: 16
Common Sense for Mayoral Candidates
vol9
No: 17
Recession Comes to Pittsburgh
vol9
No: 18
Common Sense for Mayoral Candidates: Taxes and Spending
vol9
No: 19
Government Wage Mandate Squeezes Low-Income Homebuyers