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- 2026
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- Enough is Really Enough: The Downtown TRIDRead Article
- The Red Herrings of PA’s Minimum Wage DebateRead Article
- PASSHE Still Facing Systemic ChallengesRead Article
- $15 Minimum Wage Should be a NonstarterRead Article
- Shapiro’s DOA Tax & Spend BudgetRead Article
- Another Way Pittsburgh Public Schools Can Save MoneyRead Article
- PRT, Other Transit Agencies Missed Chance to Rein in CostsRead Article
- Is Pittsburgh Trading One Vacancy Problem for Another?Read Article
- Follow This Blueprint Mayor O’ConnorRead Article
- 2025
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- Revitalizing the Pittsburgh Land BankRead Article
- Pennsylvania’s Electric Generation ChallengesRead Article
- Interntional Passenger & Cost Red Flags at Pittsburgh International AirportRead Article
- Transportation Funding’s Red HerringRead Article
- A Dubious Expansion of Pittsburgh’s Sick Leave PolicyRead Article
- AI and Job GrowthRead Article
- Pittsburgh’s Downtown Office Malaise ContinuesRead Article
- A Misguided Proposal to Redirect Liquor Tax RevenueRead Article
- Again, PRT, First Help ThyselfRead Article
- How Pennsylvania Can Best Support the AI RevolutionRead Article
- Calculating Those NFL Draft Economic BenefitsRead Article
- Five Things Pittsburgh’s Next Mayor Must DoRead Article
- Pittsburgh Regional Transit Must Help Save ItselfRead Article
- The Problem With Pittsburgh’s ‘Esplanade’ ProjectRead Article
- A Better Way to Bolster the Property Tax RollsRead Article
- Tracking Pittsburgh’s Stubborn Office Vacancy RateRead Article
- The Problem With Subsidizing AirlinesRead Article
- Pittsburgh Public School’s Chronic Absenteeism CrisisRead Article
- How to Pare Allegheny County’s Next BudgetRead Article
- 2024
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- Questioning Downtown Pittsburgh’s Redevelopment PlanRead Article
- Right Sizing Pittsburgh Public SchoolsRead Article
- Allegheny County Can, Must Pare Its BudgetRead Article
- Challenges Abound Converting Offices to ResidentialRead Article
- Pittsburgh Stadium Impacts Laid BareRead Article
- An Unflattering Portrait of PittsburghRead Article
- The Sizzle & Steak of Pittsburgh International’s June Passenger NumbersRead Article
- Pittsburgh International Passenger Count Trails National GainsRead Article
- Pittsburgh Regional Transit: Throwing Good Money After BadRead Article
- Return Money to Pennsylvania Taxpayers; Don’t Spend MoreRead Article
- Higher Office Vacancy Rates Not Confined to the City of PittsburghRead Article
- Voters Should Decide New ‘Local Option’ TaxesRead Article
- Pittsburgh Region Population Decline ContinuesRead Article
- Settle the Assessments Lawsuit, Allegheny CountyRead Article
- Behind Pennsylvania’s 2023 Gambling NumbersRead Article
- Pittsburgh Regional Transit Not Worth of Proposed Funding IncreaseRead Article
- Data Lacking on Benefit of PIT’s International Flight SubsidiesRead Article
- Westmoreland Must Conduct Property ReassessmentRead Article
- Opportunity in ‘Jock Tax’ DemiseRead Article
- Reality Behind PIT’s ‘Rebounding’ Passenger NumbersRead Article
- A Textbook Case for Regular Property ReassessmentsRead Article
- 2023
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- Pittsburgh Public Schools Must Confront Budget RealitiesRead Article
- The (Still) High Cost of Pittsburgh Regional Transit Bus ServiceRead Article
- Four Must Dos for the Next Allegheny County ExecutiveRead Article
- Weak Jobs & PIT Numbers Go Hand in HandRead Article
- PA Taxpayers Being Railroaded AgainRead Article
- The Right-to-Work Difference in Jobs RecoveryRead Article
- Pennsylvania Must Start Living Within Its MeansRead Article
- Advice for the Next Allegheny County ExecutiveRead Article
- The Trouble Behind PIT’s Passenger NumbersRead Article
- Darkness Without Dawn for Pittsburgh’s Office Vacancy Rate?Read Article
- The Lose-Lose Situation of a $15 Pennsylvania Minimum WageRead Article
- Benefits, Challenges in Corporate Net Income Tax CutRead Article
- High Costs, Poor Results: The Troubling Pittsburgh Public Schools StoryRead Article
- The Wrong Kind of ‘Growth’ for PittsburghRead Article
- Reduce Costs Before Adding New Mass Transit TaxesRead Article
- Pittsburgh International’s Misleading Stats, Rose-Colored GlassesRead Article
- The Solid Case for Allegheny County ReassessmentRead Article
- Three Proposals to Fix Pennsylvania’s School Funding MessRead Article
- Pittsburgh Downtown Office Vacancy Rate StrugglingRead Article
- Issues in the Allegheny County Executive RaceRead Article
- Points of Order on Gainey’s Tax-Exempt ReviewRead Article
- New Steps To Retiring Turnpike DebtRead Article
- Pittsburgh Public Schools Must Get On With Right-SizingRead Article
- How to Effect Real Change in Pennsylvania’s Failing High SchoolsRead Article
- 2022
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- Cheerleading Aside, Pittsburgh International’s Struggles DeepenRead Article
- Pittsburgh International’s Faltering Gas Well ProductionRead Article
- Pittsburgh Regional Transit Must Right-sizeRead Article
- Don’t Allow ‘Jock Tax’ Ruling to Strap PittsburghRead Article
- How to Grow Pittsburgh International’s British Airlines FlightsRead Article
- Pittsburgh Regional Transit Must Economize or See Funding CutRead Article
- Pittsburgh’s Government Induced Economic FunkRead Article
- Cutting Pennsylvania’s Corporate Net Income Tax: A Good StartRead Article
- The Cause of ‘The Pittsburgh Pause’Read Article
- Pittsburgh International’s Post Pandemic Passenger Recovery FaltersRead Article
- State, Counties Lack Will to Restore Assessment FairnessRead Article
- Gaming in PA is Robust, But Issues Lie in WaitRead Article
- Pennsylvania’s Private Jobs ConundrumRead Article
- School ‘Rescue’ Dollars BoomerangRead Article
- Hurdles Abound for Pittsburgh International Passenger GrowthRead Article
- The High Cost of Light Rail in PittsburghRead Article
- What Pittsburgh MSA Population Malaise PortendsRead Article
- Unionization Hinders Jobs RecoveryRead Article
- Serious Public Educations Questions for PennsylvaniaRead Article
- North Shore Connector at 10Read Article
- Keystone Exams: An Abject FailureRead Article
- Kill the ‘Presence’ Tax & Economize Pittsburgh’s FinancesRead Article
- Challenges Ahead for Pittsburgh InternationalRead Article
- Drastic Changes Key To Better Pittsburgh Job GrowthRead Article
- A Fee Too Far for Allegheny County HotelsRead Article
- Are Pittsburgh’s Pension Changes Prudent?Read Article
- Insane Inaction on PA Transportation MessRead Article
- A Deeper Dive into Pittsburgh International’s Latest Passenger NumbersRead Article
- 2021
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- Advice for Pittsburgh’s New MayorRead Article
- Allegheny County Demolition Fee ObservationsRead Article
- PASSHE Must Do More to Reform ItselfRead Article
- Attendance Matters in Academic PerformanceRead Article
- Pittsburgh’s Weakest Schools Show Little ProgressRead Article
- Questioning Pittsburgh’s American Rescue Plan SpendingRead Article
- The Pittsburgh International Airport ConundrumRead Article
- Pay Your Own Way USGARead Article
- Pittsburgh’s Static High Office Vacancy RateRead Article
- A Dichotomous Jobs Recovers – And a Looming Wild CardRead Article
- PA Tax Collections Rebound: A Cautionary TaleRead Article
- Right-to-Work and the Post-Pandemic Jobs RecoveryRead Article
- Port Authority of Allegheny County Must Reorder Its Disorderly Fiscal HouseRead Article
- Questions & Pitfalls: Emergency Public School FundingRead Article
- Gambling Revenue Rebounds – But at What Cost?Read Article
- The Right-to-Work Difference in Pandemic Jobs RecoveryRead Article
- The Trouble with Pittsburgh International AirportRead Article
- Most Aquion Money Still UnrecoveredRead Article
- Pratfalls & Pitfalls for PA Jobs RecoveryRead Article
- A Pig of a Poor Public PolicyRead Article
- Impact of Tolling Interstate BridgesRead Article
- Cold Job Comfort in Greater PittsburghRead Article
- The Evergreen Case Against Prevailing Wage LawsRead Article
- Trouble Ahead for Allegheny County Retirement System?Read Article
- The Wrong RX for Pennsylvania’s Post-Pandemic RecoveryRead Article
- Troubles at Pittsburgh International AirportRead Article
- Port Authority Challenges IncreaseRead Article
- PA Turnpike Financial Struggles ContinueRead Article
- Continuing Struggle of Pittsburgh Public SchoolsRead Article
- 2020
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- The Daunting Task of Re-Shaping PASSHERead Article
- The Continuing Case for Regular Property ReassessmentsRead Article
- Hiked Permit Fees Latest Shale Industry HurdleRead Article
- Right-to-Work States’ Jobs Fare Better in PandemicRead Article
- How Dire the Straits at Pittsburgh International?Read Article
- Allegheny County’s Sick Leave Proposal a NonstarterRead Article
- Common Sense Pension Reforms Still PrudentRead Article
- A Good Time to Scuttle ‘Prevailing Wages’Read Article
- State System School Merger Faces HurdlesRead Article
- Public Debt for Private Entities in Pandemic TimesRead Article
- Bird-Dogging Those CARES Act DollarsRead Article
- The Numbers & Unknowns: Covid-19 & PA CasinosRead Article
- Greater Pittsburgh’s Halting, Uneven Jobs RecoveryRead Article
- Law of Diminishing Economic ReturnsRead Article
- Pittsburgh Region Air Quality MisrepresentedRead Article
- Addressing PA’s ‘Lasting Economic Scars’Read Article
- In Pandemic Opportunity for Port AuthorityRead Article
- Allegheny County’s Coronavirus Revenue ChallengeRead Article
- Holding Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority to AccountRead Article
- Pittsburgh’s Road Out of the Coronavirus DownturnRead Article
- The Dandelion That is a City-County MergerRead Article
- Coronavirus Economic Damage Real, EnormousRead Article
- Pittsburgh’s Office Vacancy CanaryRead Article
- Pittsburgh Mills TIF Comes Home To RoostRead Article
- British Airway’s Passenger Traffic at Pittsburgh International Falls Short of ProjectionsRead Article
- Past Time for Pirates, Steelers, Penguins to Pay Their Own PayRead Article
- Pennsylvania’s Gambling DichotomyRead Article
- Problems Mount for State System of Higher EducationRead Article
- Allegheny County’s Real Economic PerformanceRead Article
- Past Time to Fix Property Assessment/Appeals Mess in Allegheny CountyRead Article
- Pittsburgh By the Financial NumbersRead Article
- 2019
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- Beef Up ‘Local Share’ Gambling Dollars ReportingRead Article
- Negative Job Growth Dogs Greater PittsburghRead Article
- Port Authority Transit’s Costly Bus ServiceRead Article
- New Day Ahead for Westmoreland TransitRead Article
- Pittsburgh Schools Not Ready for Prime TimeRead Article
- Wolf Spins Tangled Overtime WebRead Article
- Auction Those Pittsburgh Property HoldingsRead Article
- Just Say No to RGGIRead Article
- International Passenger Count Nosedives at Greater Pittsburgh International AirportRead Article
- The Rivers Casino at TenRead Article
- Pittsburgh’s Anemic Labor MarketRead Article
- Keeping an Eye on Police RegionalizationRead Article
- Pittsburgh Public Schools: Attendance MattersRead Article
- An Early Look at PA’s Public Pension ProblemRead Article
- Can PA’s Record Impact Fee Receipts be Sustained?Read Article
- Can PIT Afford This Terminal?Read Article
- Troubling Comparisons for PittsburghRead Article
- Budget Challenges for the Port AuthorityRead Article
- Nagging Nuggets in PA’s Revenue StatsRead Article
- Cost of Public Education: An AnalysisRead Article
- The Penn Hills PredicamentRead Article
- ‘Statistical Malpractice’: The ALA’s Attack on PittsburghRead Article
- Reversing Greater Pittsburgh’s Population DeclineRead Article
- The Wrong Way to Stimulate Demand at Pittsburgh InternationalRead Article
- Hurdles for Pittsburgh Property Tax ReliefRead Article
- Gaming Expansion in PA: Marginal Returns?Read Article
- Facts & Fallacies: British Airways Returns to PITRead Article
- No Subsidies for Replacement Hill Grocery StoreRead Article
- Disparities & Irrationalities in PA State School FundingRead Article
- Allegheny County’s ‘Charitable Purposes’ Review Fall ShortRead Article
- Dubious Prescription: Wolf’s Teacher Pay Raise PlanRead Article
- The Pennsylvania Jobs Picture: Losing GroundRead Article
- Latest Pittsburgh Jobs Report DisappointsRead Article
- Peers Could Guide Port Authority PerformanceRead Article
- Fixing Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority: Necessary & ExpensiveRead Article
- Public Pension Reform Bows in PARead Article
- Pittsburgh’s Education Dog Won’t HuntRead Article
- 2018
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- Will Allegheny County Airport Authority Continue Picking Winners and Losers?Read Article
- Time to Tighten Shale Gas Impact Fee Reporting RequirementsRead Article
- Pittsburgh Sports Teams’ Weak Economic DefenseRead Article
- Did Public Subsidies Kill Delta at PIT?Read Article
- Reject the ‘Children’s Fund’ TaxRead Article
- School District Consolidations Face HurdlesRead Article
- Questioning Those ‘Livability’ RankingsRead Article
- Overhauling PA’s Local Tax RegimenRead Article
- Tax Collections Up, But PA Economy SluggishRead Article
- Inequities Loom in School Tax Shift PlanRead Article
- No More Tax Dollars for StadiumsRead Article
- Legislature, Governor Must Act on ReassessmentsRead Article
- A Woeful Tale of Airport SubsidiesRead Article
- British Airways Subsidy is MisguidedRead Article
- The Land Bank QuestionRead Article
- A Shale Severance Tax? Think Again (Again)Read Article
- PA Must Work Hard to Overcome Economic DoldrumsRead Article
- School Funding Formula DeficienciesRead Article
- A Herring Most RedRead Article
- Eliminate PA’s Prevailing Wage LawRead Article
- Pittsburgh’s out-of-sync jobs numbersRead Article
- Pittsburgh’s Population PictureRead Article
- Lung Association Smears Pittsburgh — AgainRead Article
- How to Fix PA’s State System SchoolsRead Article
- Taxing Bodies Win, Taxpayers LoseRead Article
- ‘Inexcusably Costly’: Port Authority Bus ServiceRead Article
- Behind Pittsburgh Airport Passenger DataRead Article
- Are PA’s Gaming Dollars Well Spent?Read Article
- The Case for Regular AssessmentsRead Article
- PA Job Growth in PerspectiveRead Article
- High Cost of Port Authority Bus ServiceRead Article
- Reconciling Taxable Values, Millage Rates & Tax CollectionsRead Article
- PWSA, PUC & ‘Blame Shifting’Read Article
- Markets, Reforms & Pittsburgh’s PensionsRead Article
- ‘Progressive’ Entrepreneurism’s OxymoronRead Article
- Pittsburgh Sheds ‘Distressed City’ StatusRead Article
- Counting ‘Growth’ at Pittsburgh InternationalRead Article
- Broken Promises for Pittsburgh’s StudentsRead Article
- PA Gaming Slows, Questions AriseRead Article
- Demise of the ICARead Article
- Wintry RenewalRead Article
- Difficult Road for Homestead ExclusionRead Article
- The Problem with PA’s EconomyRead Article
- 2017
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- City Cooperation Key to Fixing PWSARead Article
- Pittsburgh’s Minimum Wage ObsessionRead Article
- What Gaming Law ‘Fix’ MeansRead Article
- A New Day at the ICARead Article
- Improving Economy Means Higher Tax CollectionsRead Article
- PA’s Embarrassing Teacher Pay GapRead Article
- Funding PA’s Public SchoolsRead Article
- ‘Anemic’ Defines Greater Pittsburgh’s EconomyRead Article
- Reforming Public School FundingRead Article
- Is $1.1 Billion Pittsburgh Airport Upgrade Justified?Read Article
- Report on PA State System Schools Falls ShortRead Article
- PA’s Destructive Budget MachinationsRead Article
- Severance Tax No Panacea for Budget WoesRead Article
- Unflattering Pattern for PA EconomyRead Article
- Behind Shale Gas Impact Fee SlideRead Article
- Stadium Authority Extension Bad Public PolicyRead Article
- Pesky Issues Dog Port AuthorityRead Article
- Hazards in School Loan Forgiveness PlanRead Article
- PA Senate’s Budget FarceRead Article
- Wolf Budget Wrong RX for PARead Article
- 2016
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