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Will Legacy Costs Force Pittsburgh Into Chapter 9 Bankruptcy?
“…the notion that the second largest city of this Commonwealth would record the unprecedented status of bankruptcy is simply an unacceptable alternative”- Report of the Intergovernmental Cooperation...
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What Happens in a Chapter 9 Bankruptcy?
In a previous Policy Brief (Volume 9, Number 51) we raised the question of whether Pittsburgh’s legacy costs could force the City to seek relief under Chapter 9 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Under...
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State won’t Bailout its Host City
Regarding the tangled web of debt between the City of Harrisburg, Dauphin County, and the Harrisburg Authority over obligations on a trash incinerator and whether those obligations could lead...
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A Case Study for Chapter 9 Reform?
Westfall Township, a community of just over 2,800 people in northeastern Pennsylvania’s Pike County, might be the tiny engine that could prompt some thinking about the process through which...
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