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Volume 1
City of Pittsburgh finances
City of Pittsburgh
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vol7
No: 43
The Ongoing Abandonment of Pittsburgh Public Schools
vol7
No: 44
Extravagant Gubernatorial Jobs Hype
vol7
No: 45
Pennsylvania’s Assessment Laws Need Major Overhaul
vol7
No: 46
Transportation Act of 2007 is Badly Off the Tracks
vol7
No: 47
New Taxes in Allegheny County—A Terrible Idea
vol7
No: 48
Transportation Funding Plan Hits Pothole
vol7
No: 49
Let Pittsburgh Voters Decide City’s Financial Future
vol7
No: 50
Union Strength Dependent on a Non-competitive Environment
vol7
No: 51
Governor’s Spin Machine at Full Throttle on Economic Situation
vol7
No: 52
A Compelling Reason to Scuttle Plans to Toll I-80
vol7
No: 53
No Upside in City Council’s Parking Tax Freeze
vol7
No: 54
Taken for a Ride by USAirways
vol7
No: 55
Turmoil over Mass Transit and New Taxes: What to Do
vol7
No: 56
Pittsburgh’s Garbage Employees: Top of the Heap?
vol7
No: 57
Allegheny County’s Population Change by Age and its Effects
vol7
No: 58
Flag Thrown on Steelers’ Tax Payment Claims
vol7
No: 59
Transportation Funding Plan Has Major Defects
vol7
No: 60
Economic Development Spending: Misguided and Wasteful
vol7
No: 61
State Education Funding Scheme Rewards Failure
vol7
No: 62
Colossal Waste of Tax Dollars for Useless Education Study
vol7
No: 63
Conference Chairman Tells Us to Count Our Blessings
vol7
No: 64
Will the County Executive Shut Down Mass Transit?
vol7
No: 65
City’s Hotel Policy Not Very Hospitable
vol7
No: 66
Pennsylvania Among Only a Handful of States Allowing Transit Strikes
vol7
No: 67
State Comparison of Worker Freedom
vol6
No: 02
Lots of State Spending But Few Jobs
vol6
No: 03
Another Half-Baked Scheme to Solve Regional Problems
vol6
No: 04
The Extravagant Cost of PAT Operations
vol6
No: 05
A 21st Century Rail Holdup
vol6
No: 06
A Colossal Failure of Public School Policies
vol6
No: 07
The Connector’s Last Gasp?
vol6
No: 08
An Update on Pittsburgh Convention Center Attendance
vol6
No: 09
Learning from the North Hills Teachers’ Union
vol8
No: 64
More Self-Congratulatory Blather about Pennsylvania’s Job Picture
vol6
No: 26
Overly Powerful Public Sector Unions
vol8
No: 61
Failed Attempt to Toll I-80 Costly to Taxpayers
vol8
No: 62
Does the Developer Have Money for the Grand Plan?
vol8
No: 63
Uncovering the True Cost of Government Retiree Benefits
vol8
No: 65
Ending the Tax Referendum Legal Dispute
vol8
No: 66
The Great Transit Tax Grab of 2008
vol8
No: 67
Analyzing the Talk About a Transit Shutdown
vol8
No: 68
Socking it to the Airlines at Pittsburgh International
vol8
No: 69
Promises, Promises
vol8
No: 70
Adding Up the Costs of Pittsburgh School District’s Failures
vol8
No: 71
Pittsburgh’s Budget: Legacy Costs Have Large and Lasting Impact
vol8
No: 72
Tallying Recent Teacher Strikes Across the Nation
vol8
No: 73
Time to Outlaw Transit Strikes In Pennsylvania
vol8
No: 74
Little Cheer for Taxpayers in Transit Contract
vol8
No: 75
Card Check Will Worsen Pittsburgh’s Competitive Disadvantage
vol8
No: 76
PAT Bus Service Still Has the Highest Employee Costs in the Nation
vol8
No: 77
Allegheny County Headed to Court over Plan to Spend Drink Taxes
vol8
No: 78
Science Test Scores Paint a Disturbing Picture of Education
vol6
No: 10
A Dose of Reality for City Council
vol6
No: 11
Dueling Casinos
vol6
No: 12
A Much Better Plan B
vol6
No: 13
Boston and Pittsburgh: Who Knew?
vol6
No: 14
More Lessons from a Teachers’ Union
vol6
No: 15
Base Year Assessments: Bad Policy, Bad Court Decision
vol6
No: 16
Pittsburgh’s Job Picture: the Sad, the Bad, and the Ugly
vol6
No: 17
Overhyped Economic Impact of Playoff Games
vol6
No: 18
Economics 101 for Teachers
vol6
No: 19
Transit Labor Negotiations in Pittsburgh and Denver: Different Planets
vol6
No: 20
Pittsburgh’s Future: The Real Story
vol6
No: 21
They’re Still Leaving Allegheny County
vol6
No: 22
Ineptitude Has Become a Hallmark of the Port Authority
vol6
No: 23
A Minimum Wage Reality Check
vol6
No: 24
Revenues from Pittsburgh’s New Tax Structure
vol6
No: 25
Pittsburgh’s 2006 Budget
vol6
No: 27
Reducing Property Taxes
vol6
No: 28
Eating and Drinking in the Pittsburgh Region
vol6
No: 29
Union Membership Levels and Job Growth in U.S. Metro Areas
vol6
No: 30
Comparing Housing Markets
vol6
No: 31
Gubernatorial Jobs Hype Rings Hollow
vol6
No: 32
PAT’s White Elephant Deep in the Red
vol6
No: 33
Minimum Wage, Maximum Pandering
vol6
No: 34
Labor Force Slipping in the Pittsburgh Region
vol6
No: 35
PAT Chairman Repeats Bogus Arguments for Tunnel
vol6
No: 36
Lessons From Charlotte That Pittsburgh Refuses to Learn
vol6
No: 37
Transit Agencies Throw Commission Under the Bus
vol6
No: 38
Pittsburgh and Duquesne: A Match not Made in Heaven
vol6
No: 39
Take a Gander at a Company That Deserves Applause
vol6
No: 40
Pittsburgh Jobs Picture a Little Better but Not Good
vol6
No: 41
Pennsylvania Lags Other States in Voter Control of School Taxes
vol6
No: 42
Federal Transit Bureaucracy Fails Taxpayers
vol6
No: 43
Governor Brags About Lamentable Job Growth
vol6
No: 44
Assessment Ball in Court’s Court
vol6
No: 45
SAT State of Affairs
vol6
No: 46
Duquesne Schools: More Money is not the Solution
vol6
No: 47
Commiserating with the Commission
vol6
No: 48
Predictable Effects of Tax-Supported Mega Malls Come to Light
vol6
No: 49
Teachers Strike; Pennsylvania Strikes Out
vol6
No: 50
Pittsburgh Job Growth Soft: Complaints Loud and Misplaced
vol6
No: 51
Making Pennsylvania’s Business Tax Climate Competitive
vol6
No: 52
Pittsburgh’s Stalled Wage Tax Receipts
vol6
No: 53
Another Useless Ranking
vol6
No: 54
PAT Driver Pay Gouges Taxpayers
vol 1
No: 01
A Message from the President