Harrisburg mayoral candidates take readers’ questions: How to address concentrated poverty in the city?
Today 5:30 AM
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Editor’s note: In advance of a planned forum for Harrisburg’s mayoral candidates, PennLive asked readers what questions they would like to ask the candidates. The forum was canceled after technical issues interrupted the taping, but four of the candidates agreed to answer a few of our reader’s questions. Here’s the third question, and the candidates’ responses.
One of the common complaints about economic development in Harrisburg is that, when it happens, the rich get richer and the poor stay poor. Census Bureau data confirms that right now, household incomes in the city average about 65 cents on the dollar compared to Dauphin County as a whole.
Harrisburg mayoral candidates take readers’ questions: How can the city help the schools?
Today 5:10 AM
Editor’s note: In advance of a planned forum for Harrisburg’s mayoral candidates, PennLive asked readers what questions they would like to ask the candidates. The forum was canceled after technical issues interrupted the taping, but four of the candidates agreed to answer a few of our reader’s questions. Here’s the second of the questions, and the candidates’ responses.
One of Harrisburg’s biggest systemic problems, the quality of its schools, is one that actually has nothing to do with city government. But since the city needs a stronger public school system to start to encourage new families to move and stay, one reader wanted to know how the next mayor can help with the revival of Harrisburg schools.
Harrisburg’s mayoral candidates take readers’ questions: Privatization of public services
Posted May 13, 2021
Editor’s note: In advance of a planned forum for Harrisburg’s mayoral candidates, PennLive asked readers what questions they would like to ask the candidates. The forum was canceled after technical issues interrupted the taping, but four of the candidates agreed to answer a few of our reader’s questions. Here’s the first of the questions, and the candidates’ responses.
We start with a question that raises a lot of strong opinions in Harrisburg, where - to help the city climb out of a crushing debt load nearly a decade ago - the city’s incinerator was sold and the public parking facilities were turned over on a long-term lease to a private operator. Our reader wrote:
Spending in 2021 Harrisburg mayoral primary will set city record
Updated May 11, 2021;
Posted May 11, 2021
The race to occupy Harrisburg s mayor s office is breaking fundraising records, according to campaign finance reports filed with Dauphin County. (Photo by Christine Vendel, PennLive, File.)Christine Vendel, PennLive
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Dave Schankweiler, the retired founder and publisher of the Central Pennsylvania Business Journal, has shown he may have the best Rolodex in the Harrisburg mayor’s race, out-raising all candidates who have filed campaign finance reports so far.
The big wild card? Former Harrisburg city councilman Otto Banks, who has the single-biggest donor in the race, but whose campaign committee had not yet filed a report as of noon, Tuesday.