New Pittsburgh Courier April 15, 2011 A new audit of the city’s real estate acquisitions and holdings shows that although the bulk of the properties taken for tax delinquency are in predominantly Black neighborhoods, most saw more properties resold.
Read More →Pittsburgh Post-Gazette February 13, 2011 Pittsburgh City Council President Darlene Harris delivered two of the best lines when she and a half dozen of her colleagues assembled Saturday night to offer “Love Quotes.”
Read More →Wednesday, October 06, 2010 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette So maybe the squeaky wheel doesn’t get the grease. That’s one finding from the Pittsburgh controller’s performance audit of the city’s Redd-Up crew, a work unit of the public works department charged with addressing blight conditions like messy empty lots, troublesome vacant structures, accumulated debris and various code enforcement …
Read More →Tuesday, October 05, 2010 By Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Some of the communities making the most blight complaints to Pittsburgh’s 311 line in 2008 and 2009 received the least attention from the city’s Redd-Up crew during that period, city Controller Michael Lamb said Monday in an audit recommending that the high-profile cleanup crew better apportion …
Read More →Tuesday, April 13, 2010 By Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh City Controller Michael Lamb said he can’t do a performance audit of the city’s anti-gang violence initiative because there’s no performance so far to audit.
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