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Volume 1
City of Pittsburgh finances
City of Pittsburgh
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vol15
No: 32
Assessment Appeals Since Allegheny County’s Reassessment
vol15
No: 31
Golden Oldie #2: Independence Day
vol15
No: 30
Education Funding Commission is a Distraction from Real Issues: Part II-Absenteeism
vol15
No: 29
Education Funding Commission is a Distraction from Real Issues: Part I-Equity
vol15
No: 28
Pittsburgh Region Ranks Low in Business Startups
vol15
No: 27
Golden Oldie #1:School Funding
vol15
No: 26
Pittsburgh’s Population Drop in 2014: What Does It Mean?
vol15
No: 25
Golden Oldies are Still Fresh
vol15
No: 24
Evaluating the House’s Property Tax Relief Bill
vol15
No: 23
Pittsburgh Area Jobs Count Revised Downward—Again
vol15
No: 22
Wilkinsburg: Poster Child for Failures of the PA Education System
vol15
No: 21
The Lung Association’s Latest Bogus Air Quality Report on Allegheny County
vol15
No: 20
Lower Hill Development No Longer Using a TIF: So What Now?
vol15
No: 19
PENNDOT: Privatization Could Reduce PAT Costs
vol15
No: 18
PENNDOT’s Study of Transit Consolidation: Late and Incomplete
vol15
No: 17
When Political Bias Substitutes for Analysis: The Case of Tax-Exempt Properties
vol15
No: 16
Another Punitive Wrinkle to Severance Tax
vol15
No: 15
Two Questions the PAT Board Should Be Asking
vol15
No: 14
Governor’s Budget Proposal Seems to Be a Non-Starter
vol15
No: 13
Unbundling the Governor’s Proposed Tax Shift
vol15
No: 12
Property Assessment Appeals Push Taxable Value Higher
vol15
No: 11
Pennsylvania Union Membership 2014: What is it Telling Us?
vol15
No: 10
Governor Pitches Severance Tax Proposal
vol15
No: 09
Marcellus Impact Fee Benefits for Western PA Counties
vol15
No: 08
Cross Currents in the Pittsburgh Region’s Job Situation
vol15
No: 07
Education Bargains in Pennsylvania?
vol15
No: 06
Allegheny County Certified Property Values for 2015
vol15
No: 05
Gaming Revenues Still Slumping
vol15
No: 04
Time to Rewrite Law Governing SEA Auditing
vol15
No: 03
The Department of Education’s Misleading Academic Score System
vol15
No: 02
Fuel Tax Increase Greets Pennsylvania Motorists in 2015
vol15
No: 01
Any Major Changes with Local Pensions in Recent Years?
vol14
No: 60
2014: Findings on Key Issues
vol14
No: 59
Assessing the Impact of a Severance Tax for PA
vol14
No: 58
Pittsburgh Superintendent Wrongly Blames Legislature for School Problems
vol14
No: 57
Is the Passenger Count at the Pittsburgh Airport Taking Off?
vol14
No: 56
More Nonsense about School Funding and Academics
vol14
No: 55
Allegheny County Becomes a “Cab Lab”
vol14
No: 54
Where Are the Transit Studies the Legislature Asked For?
vol13
No: 53
Using County Drink Tax Revenue for the Mon Valley Shuttle
vol14
No: 53
Pennsylvania’s Higher Education System’s Woes
vol14
No: 52
Goodbye, Town Hall?
vol14
No: 51
Promises and More Promises
vol14
No: 50
The Education Funding Commission’s Search for a Problem to Solve
vol14
No: 49
A Look at the Proposed 2015 Pittsburgh Budget
vol14
No: 48
Redeveloping the Lower Hill
vol14
No: 47
State Tax Dollars for Downtown Development and Prevailing Wages
vol14
No: 46
Pittsburgh Magnet Schools: How Are They Doing?
vol14
No: 45
Do Public Meetings Need More Sunshine?
vol14
No: 44
How Are PA’s Big City Pensions Faring in 2014?
vol14
No: 43
East Allegheny Teachers on Strike
vol14
No: 42
Will Tax for Distressed Municipalities Bypass Pittsburgh?
vol14
No: 41
After Five Years Have Slots Revenues Hit the Jackpot?
vol14
No: 40
Talk of Another School Merger: Good Idea or Not?
vol14
No: 39
Overtime Déjà vu at PAT
vol14
No: 38
The New Land Banks: What Are They About?
vol14
No: 37
Pittsburgh Region Fares Poorly In Business Climate Survey
vol14
No: 36
Parking Rates Will Increase This Week
vol14
No: 35
Privatizing Garbage Deserves another Look
vol14
No: 34
Third Sunset Review of County Government Completed
vol14
No: 33
Leisure and Hospitality Job Gains: Why So Strong?
vol14
No: 32
Is the Public Being Well Served by the Public Utilities Commission?
vol14
No: 31
Potential Impact of the Parking Authority Rate Hike Plan
vol14
No: 29
Police Residency Requirements: A Survey
vol14
No: 30
Keystone State Facing More Budget Troubles
vol14
No: 28
Pittsburgh Faces a Major Budget Problem
vol14
No: 27
Has Act 1 Generated Taxpayer Relief?
vol14
No: 26
Urban Land Institute’s Flawed Recommendations for PAT
vol14
No: 25
Measuring PAT’s Light Rail Performance
vol14
No: 24
The Minimum Wage Sideshow
vol14
No: 23
Pennsylvania Businesses Not Very Optimistic
vol14
No: 22
More Disappointing News on Pittsburgh’s Labor Market Data
vol14
No: 21
Alternative Approaches to School Property Tax Reform
vol14
No: 20
What’s the Deer Lakes Park Drilling Proposal Worth?
vol14
No: 19
Dealing with Municipal and School District Assessment Appeals
vol14
No: 18
What Happened to Pittsburgh Area Jobs Strength?
vol14
No: 17
The Problem of School Absenteeism
vol14
No: 16
Lessons from Pittsburgh’s Cab-Rideshare Battle
vol14
No: 15
Mt. Lebanon Property Assessments: Here We Go Again
vol14
No: 14
Shocking Revisions to Pittsburgh Employment Numbers
vol14
No: 13
Marcellus Impact Fee Revenue: What’s Happening?
vol14
No: 12
Act 89’s Impact on the Port Authority
vol14
No: 11
Is the State Education Funding Formula Immoral and Unfair?
vol14
No: 10
A Proposal for The Mayor’s Education Reform Task Force
vol14
No: 09
Pittsburgh International Still Struggling Despite Fee Reductions
vol14
No: 08
The Large and Growing Commonwealth Financing Authority
vol14
No: 07
Changes Brought by the Transportation Bill
vol14
No: 06
PAT’s Coming Windfall
vol14
No: 05
Has the Mt. Lebanon TIF Saga Finally Ended?
vol14
No: 04
PA Gaming Revenues Slowed in 2013
vol14
No: 03
Lots of Static on TV Show’s Funding
vol14
No: 02
Another Year, Another Hike in Turnpike Tolls
vol14
No: 01
Who is Right Regarding Pittsburgh’s Distressed Status?
vol13
No: 61
Looking Back, Looking Ahead
vol13
No: 60
Some Key Details of the Transportation Bill (a clarification)
vol13
No: 59
Some Key Details of the Transportation Bill
vol13
No: 57
Pittsburgh School Spending: Where Does All The Money Go?
vol13
No: 56
911: A State of Financial Emergency?
vol13
No: 55
Will the Legislature Finally Amend the Prevailing Wage Law?