Summary: Pittsburgh City Council is considering an ordinance that would provide property tax relief to longtime owner-occupants whose assessed values escalate when there is
Pittsburgh City Council recently enacted a prevailing wage bill and is now considering a living wage bill. Both measures will almost certainly increase City spending
A coalition of community activists, environmental groups, and labor unions are becoming increasingly vocal on how development is supposed to look in Pittsburgh-one City Council
No, not another event on the scale of the G-20; this time, it is a summit on education. Funded by a $10k grant from
Pittsburgh’s Councilman Shields will propose a prevailing wage bill that is expected to mandate that employees at businesses with a City contract or receiving
In a moment of economic lucidity, Pittsburgh’s Mayor on December 31 vetoed the so called “prevailing wage” bill Council passed in the waning days
Municipal authorities were purportedly created in part to do things regular governments cannot do and to assume certain financial and operational functions. In Pittsburgh,
As the proverbial clock moved close to midnight on December 31st Pittsburgh City Council finalized a plan it believed would be sufficient to avoid a
Modern urban politics is not at all exempt from the old axiom that “you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.
Councilman Burgess-along with his allies in the campaign for “living wage” bill-are still pushing hard for the legislation. In a comment filled with irony,
