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Volume 10
Volume 1
City of Pittsburgh finances
City of Pittsburgh
24
vol13
No: 48
Looking Anew at School District Mergers
vol13
No: 47
Tackle Highway Funding and Mass Transit Funding Separately
vol13
No: 46
PENNDOT Has a Critical Role in PAT’s Future
vol13
No: 45
Cracks in Keystone Report
vol2
No: 64
Business Must Fight Higher Taxes
vol2
No: 63
End of the Line for Maglev?
vol2
No: 62
Pittsburgh’s Job Growth Rate Has Been Dismal
vol2
No: 61
Government Spending Absurdity
vol2
No: 60
Pittsburgh Taxes: A Clearer Picture
vol2
No: 59
Happy Thanksgiving
vol2
No: 58
Commuters and Visitors Benefit Pittsburgh Finances
vol3
No: 56
The Dark Side of Distressed Status for Pittsburgh
vol2
No: 57
Pittsburgh’s Losing Gamble
vol3
No: 55
New Study Misses the Point
vol2
No: 56
Putting the Brakes on the Car Rental Tax
vol3
No: 54
Distressed…or Just Irresponsible?
vol2
No: 55
Great Community Stands on Slippery Slope
vol2
No: 54
Alternatives to a Car Rental Tax in Allegheny County
vol3
No: 53
RAD and TIF: Not a Happy Combination
vol1
No: 47
Questioning The Economics Of ‘Jump Starting’
vol2
No: 53
Debunking School Board Puffery
vol2
No: 52
Mt. Lebanon: Let the Blighters Beware
vol1
No: 46
A Letter to Santa Claus
vol13
No: 01
Supreme Court in Reassessment Thicket Again
vol2
No: 51
Regional Money Pits
vol12
No: 02
Extraordinarily High Cost Redevelopment
vol2
No: 50
Pittsburgh Public Schools Need A ‘No Excuses’ Approach
vol1
No: 45
Pittsburgh Needs to Rethink Living Wage
vol11
No: 01
Council’s Last Minute Pension Funding Plan Raises Many Questions
vol2
No: 49
The Stadiums That Didn’t Save Pittsburgh
vol1
No: 44
Pittsburgh Public Schools: Expensive and Ineffective
vol2
No: 48
Another Case of Misguided Policy
vol2
No: 47
Good Intentions Gone Awry
vol1
No: 43
Government Mandated Wages: A Shackle on Economic Growth
vol3
No: 52
Time to Make Hard Spending Choices
vol2
No: 46
Taxpayers Thrown A Curve
vol1
No: 42
Living Wage: A Guarantee of Future Budget Crisis
vol3
No: 51
Pittsburgh Schools: $15,500 Per Student and Rising
vol2
No: 45
Undeserved Award for Pittsburgh Teachers Union
vol1
No: 41
Living Wage Bill Threatens Allegheny County
vol3
No: 50
Will Pittsburgh Be Awarded Distressed Status?
vol2
No: 44
Authorities–Those Independent Units of Government
vol1
No: 40
Thanksgiving Thoughts
vol3
No: 49
School Tax Jump Crippling Pittsburgh
vol2
No: 43
A New Foundation for Urban Redevelopment
vol1
No: 39
Pittsburgh’s Stadium Saga: More Byzantine Than Ever
vol3
No: 48
City Tax Supporters are Counterproductive
vol2
No: 42
It Takes a Lot of Gold to Park in the Golden Triangle
vol1
No: 38
For The Airline Industry The Bad News Is Far From Over
vol3
No: 47
A Pittsburgh Education Proposal
vol2
No: 41
Pittsburgh School Taxes: A Different Look
vol1
No: 37
Proposals To Raise City Taxes Not Amusing
vol3
No: 46
Act 47: Life Preserver for the City?
vol2
No: 39
Appointed School Members: A Non-Starter?
vol2
No: 40
Beltways and Right to Work: A Winning Combination
vol1
No: 36
Pittsburgh’s High Tech Surge: Hold the Hype
vol10
No: 01
Things Are Not Great in Pittsburgh Promise Land
vol3
No: 45
A Better Plan for Pittsburgh
vol2
No: 38
Penguins Arena Funding–Back to the Drawing Board
vol1
No: 35
Are Employee Residency Requirements Appropriate?
vol1
No: 34
Surveying the High-Tech Landscape
vol3
No: 44
Convention Center: Arrogant Mismanagement
vol3
No: 43
Education Task Force Gets A ‘D-‘
vol1
No: 33
Blighting of America’s Founding Principles
vol3
No: 42
Pittsburgh’s Financial Crisis: What the State Should Do
vol1
No: 33
The Federal Government Has A Role In Shaping Airline Industry Future
vol3
No: 41
What Did We Get For Our Money?
vol1
No: 32
Allegheny County’s Reapportionment: Raw Partisanship
vol3
No: 40
Loosening the Grip of Binding Arbitration
vol1
No: 31
A Look at Pittsburgh’s KOZ Properties
vol3
No: 39
A Solid Plan to Cut Government Spending
vol1
No: 30
Slow Economy Calls For Good Local Policies
vol3
No: 38
A Critical Mess
vol2
No: 37
Entrepreneur Gets Green Light for New Cab Company
vol3
No: 37
Pittsburgh’s Population Plunge Persists
vol2
No: 36
The Strange Case of Upscale Blight
vol9
No: 01
The Pathetic State of the Pittsburgh Public School District
vol3
No: 36
Will the Pirates’ Rebuilding Ever Stop?
vol2
No: 35
Liberal Think Tank All Wet on Business Taxes
vol1
No: 29
A New Approach to Infrastructure is Needed
vol3
No: 35
Public Safety Spending: Hazardous to Pittsburgh’s Fiscal Health
vol3
No: 34
Too Many School Districts Not Up to Standards
vol2
No: 34
Is Pittsburgh ‘Short-Sighted’?
vol3
No: 33
Pennsylvania Teachers: A Privileged Class
vol2
No: 32
Spending Our Way Prosperity Is A Bad Investment
vol3
No: 32
Time for a PAT Answer
vol2
No: 31
Financing a New Penguins Arena
vol3
No: 31
Pittsburgh: Time to Declare Independence from Politics as Usual
vol2
No: 30
Bad Schools are Government’s Failure to Keep Faith
vol3
No: 30
One-Armed Bandits As A Cure-All
vol2
No: 29
Tax Increment Foolishness
vol3
No: 29
Public Sector Unions and Presidential Voting
vol2
No: 28
Pittsburgh’s Being Spun So Hard It’s Starting To Unravel
vol3
No: 28
Cross-Checking the Penguins
vol3
No: 27
A No Tax Plan for Pittsburgh
vol2
No: 27
Is It Too Late For USAirways To Avoid Bankruptcy?
vol1
No: 28
These Naysayers Wish to Renew Their Offensive
vol3
No: 26
State Contemplating TIFs
vol2
No: 26
Did Pittsburgh Give The Store Away