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Policy Briefs: Vol 5
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vol5
No: 50
No Sale on City-County Purchasing Agreement
vol5
No: 49
Taxpayers Need to Hold On to Their Wallets
vol5
No: 48
Overhyped Pennsylvania Jobs Numbers
vol5
No: 47
Bargain Basement Price for Slot Machine Licenses
vol5
No: 46
Time to End Transit Unions’ Right to Strike
vol5
No: 45
Fumbling Transit Cost Containment
vol5
No: 44
School Boards Lack Respect for Taxpayers
vol5
No: 43
Pennsylvania Should Adopt Tax and Spend Limits
vol5
No: 42
Talk is Cheap-Good Policy is Hard
vol5
No: 41
Pittsburgh Should Learn from Act 47 Graduates
vol5
No: 40
Assessment Angst: The Never Ending Story
vol5
No: 39
Act 47 Must Curb Pittsburgh’s Workers Comp Costs
vol5
No: 38
Subsidizing Retail Fails As A Job Producer
vol5
No: 37
Casino Fantasy
vol5
No: 36
Clueless in Pittsburgh
vol5
No: 35
Public Sector Unions Are Hobbling Pittsburgh
vol5
No: 34
A More Sensible Direction for Pittsburgh
vol5
No: 33
Pull the Connector’s Plug
vol5
No: 32
Victory Center: Triumph of Misuse of Power
vol5
No: 31
Terminate the Stadium Authority
vol5
No: 30
South Side Works: A Progress Report
vol5
No: 29
Are City Tax Revenues Falling Short?
vol5
No: 28
Latest Education Funding Plan Fleeces Taxpayers
vol5
No: 27
Spurious Pleading For Mass Transit Spending
vol5
No: 26
Chains Around the Cradle of Liberty
vol5
No: 25
Pittsburgh School Audit a Waste of Tax Dollars
vol5
No: 24
City-County Merger Unnecessary and Undesirable
vol5
No: 23
Property Assessments: Lessons From Butler County
vol5
No: 22
Deep-Six Pittsburgh’s ‘Big Dig’
vol5
No: 21
Three (Big) Cheers for the Port Authority
vol5
No: 20
Caps Are Out: Now What?
vol5
No: 19
Pittsburgh’s Taxing Situation
vol5
No: 18
Decision Time in Allegheny County
vol5
No: 17
Five Steps to Reliable Assessments
vol5
No: 16
Denver’s Solution for Mile High Transit Costs
vol5
No: 15
Cold Water for Overheated Merger Rhetoric
vol5
No: 14
Impact of Assessment Cap Scheme on Downtown Tax Base
vol5
No: 13
Rethinking Industry Recruitment
vol5
No: 12
Assessment Cap: Good Politics, Poor Policy
vol5
No: 11
2006 Assessments: Much Better Than Existing Assessments
vol5
No: 10
Bus Transit Costs–What’s to be Done?
vol5
No: 09
Addressing the Imbalance in Act 111
vol5
No: 08
Reassessment Controversy: Doing the Right Thing
vol5
No: 07
The Hollowing Out of Downtown Pittsburgh
vol5
No: 06
Funding Crisis? No, It’s a Spending Crisis
vol5
No: 05
Rethinking Port Authority Subsidies
vol5
No: 04
Getting Soaked in Deer Creek
vol5
No: 03
Cooling Down Fire Bureau Spending
vol5
No: 02
Note to Pittsburgh Tax Collectors
vol5
No: 01
Port Authority Costs–Round Two