While waxing ecstatic last month about the Pittsburgh school district’s improving achievement scores in the 2008-2009 school year, the Superintendent studiously avoided a thorough discussion
Does this sound familiar? A city with “year end structural deficits that were addressed by one-time solutions; debt burden in excess of 10% of
Our recent report on municipal financial statistics (Report # 2010-04) shed light on the spending and revenues of a cross section sample of twenty municipalities
A recently introduced bill in Harrisburg would mandate that all municipal functions be merged into their host county. The rationale is an old one-too many
Though separated by a distance of over 200 miles and a population difference of more than 200k people, Pittsburgh and Reading now share the
