Editorial: Pittsburgh voters will be unfairly blamed if parks don’t improve after tax increase
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 10, 2019
The actual plan for park improvement is vague, and if the new tax doesn’t cultivate change in parks, Pittsburgh voters could be blamed. But they shouldn’t be.
Elizabeth Warren’s “lobbyist tax” attacks First Amendment in more ways than one
By Michael Clifford, Staff Columnist
October 15, 2019
Warren’s idea is more than an ineffective proposal to curtail government corruption by limiting advocacy spending by organizations.
Senate Council takes issue with proposed federal tax bill
By David Solomon | For The Pitt News
November 16, 2017
The Senate Council started off with heartfelt “goodbyes” to Provost Patricia Beeson, whose hard work Chancellor Patrick Gallagher and other Senate Council members praised. “Her role for the University and for me has been tremendous,” Chancellor Gallagher said. “This will be a year-long ...
Editorial: PA ballot question doesn’t solve property tax problem
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 9, 2017
If you voted Tuesday in Pennsylvania’s election, you were presented with an interesting ballot question — should the state legislature allow local taxing authorities to exempt 100 percent of any family’s primary residence value when collecting taxes? Pennsylvania voted yes by a margin of 54 to 46 percent, effe...
Editorial: Paradise Papers demand transparent tax reform
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 8, 2017
What do Nike, George Soros, Facebook, Queen Elizabeth II, Apple, Bono and the Kremlin have in common? Their allegedly evasive financial maneuvers were exposed Nov. 5 in a massive project called the Paradise Papers. Ring a bell? Just like the 2015 Panama Papers, Sunday’s trove of documents was leaked by the International Consortium of Invest...
Editorial: Trump’s big, empty tax promises
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 12, 2017
President Donald Trump visited Harrisburg Wednesday, Oct. 11 to discuss his plans for tax reform in front of a crowd of roughly 1,000 people. The crowd comprised mostly of truckers and small manufacturing business owners — the types of people Trump promised to help while campaigning for the presiden...
Pitt announces finances, top employee earners
By Henry Glitz | News Editor
June 13, 2017
Pitt’s annual financial disclosure, which it released last month in compliance with the Right to Know Law, revealed a pay structure with University athletics once again at the top. The University, which legally qualifies as a non-profit organization exempt from tax, nevertheless must still file a publi...