Political operatives are mourning the loss of one of the city’s longest-serving and most original politicians, Jim Ferlo, who passed away on Sunday. Ferlo served as a city councilor from 1987 to 2002 and then in the state Senate until 2014.
Allegheny County’s 7% hotel room rental tax collections, ravaged by the prolonged coronavirus pandemic, began to bounce back in 2021, county data show. But a proposal to add a new fee on top of that tax is shortsighted, concludes an analysis by the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy. “Given that