This is a blog about Pennsylvania!
I’m not a fan of the ballot initiative process in general, but I’m especially against it when it comes to really big financial decisions. In Allentown and also in Lehigh County, some people want to change the rules so that really big important financial decisions like asset sales or borrowing have to go to a [...]
May 23, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
There is so much wrong in this post I can’t even, but how are you going to compare John Callahan’s ward wins in a Democratic primary in a muni year to his performance in a general election in a midterm year?
May 22, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
In this era of tight budgets, cities are looking for ways to grow their tax bases without asking individual households to contribute more taxes. Here’s the first place they should look. Different kinds of buildings yield different amounts of property tax revenue per acre. Many areas limit residential development to just one house per acre. [...]
May 22, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
In this era of tight budgets, cities are looking for ways to grow their tax bases without asking individual households to contribute more taxes. Here’s the first place they should look. Different kinds of buildings yield different amounts of property tax revenue per acre. Many areas limit residential development to just one house per acre. [...]
May 13, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
The point of political blogging is not that you’ll directly reach so many voters that you’ll shape opinions about elections. The point is that for every couple dozen low-information voters, there’s a *political friend* who people ask who to vote for the week before an election. The point of blogging is to shape the opinions [...]
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