Hey, Harrisburg: Cut Spending to Match Economy
The extraordinarily drawn out wrangling over the State budget is now reduced to a fight over who and what gets new or higher taxes. And
Christopher Wendt
October 2, 2009
The extraordinarily drawn out wrangling over the State budget is now reduced to a fight over who and what gets new or higher taxes. And
Local government is perhaps the most important to its residents, yet many are unaware of how much their municipality collects in revenues and spends on
With municipalities across Allegheny County setting their budgets for the upcoming year, several are patting themselves on the back for not raising taxes. That is
This is what a once great city has been reduced to. Federal community block grant funds of $16.5 million are being fought over by
Money received by Allegheny County from gaming taxes almost certainly delayed hard budgetary choices. Would the County have raised taxes or cut spending in the
Another year, another budget crisis. The Port Authority’s (PAT) budget projection for 2010-2011 calls for yet another funding shortfall; this time about $25 million. PAT’s
Compared to our Benchmark City-an amalgamation of financial data from four U.S. regional hub cities that differ in geographic location, population, square mileage, and political
A wise economist once remarked that nothing grows exponentially forever. A corollary would be that rapid exponential growth of anything will not be sustainable
A recent opinion letter printed in the Post Gazette urges suburbanites to voluntarily send money to the City to help it with its financial
Tapping in on the Marcellus Shale bonanza is the Mon Valley community of McKeesport, which just announced a deal to allow drilling on 27