by Jane Richey | May 17, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Pennsylvania’s township officials are taking aim at unfunded mandates, which they say waste millions in tax dollars every year. Close to 4,000 local leaders attended the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors’ 90th Annual Educational Conference last...
by Jane Richey | Mar 12, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Harrisburg says it will miss general-obligation bond payments for the first time next week as its receiver seeks approval for a plan to sell assets. The city, carrying a debt load of more than five times its general-fund budget, will miss $5.27 million in bond...
by Jane Richey | Feb 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The city of Harrisburg is Ground Zero for America’s municipal debt crisis. Pennsylvania’s capital city has liabilities estimated at $610 million, which is nearly 10 times its annual budget. The city is so deep in the red that last year it attempted to file for...