This weekend, a group of representatives from Nashville is coming to Pittsburgh to learn about, among other things, waterfront development, improving public schools, green
The product of the Commonwealth’s first voluntary school district merger-Central Valley District in Beaver County-could be headed for a work stoppage. That’s right: the
The Post-Gazette in an opinion piece this morning laments that politicians and local leaders have failed to get a referendum question on the ballot
It has been nearly five years since the Mayor of Pittsburgh stated “a year from now, when you ask the question ‘should the City
Take two Allegheny County school districts, each comprising three separate municipalities within them, one that voted to consolidate elementary schools and one that discussed
No, we’re not talking about a City-County merger: that idea has not surfaced since the 2008 Nordenberg report was unveiled and got a lukewarm
In April of 2004 the City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County announced the merger of 911 emergency operations, with co-location coming first and then
School closings, teacher contract concessions, and “difficult choices”, many of them related to the loss of students to charter schools and a failure to
The website 24/7 Wall Street took a report done by Washington, DC’s Office of Revenue Analysis that examined the property, sales, and automobile taxes
Whenever the topic of merging or consolidating City and County services comes up, there is a regular recitation of what has been done (think
