About 5-10 minutes ago, I saw some blue/green bright lights while looking across the Allegheny river towards Highland Park. I vaguely remember hearing that transformers give off those types of colors when they explode. Not sure if that was the cause, but it seems around the same time.

Yep, went out for a minute here in Penn Hills.

Yeah here in Edgewood it flickered on an off for a good minute. We saw a large blue power flash in the sky.

Thought it was a d@mn explosion lol.

Yep. Our lights kept dimming, internet went out. Didn't hear any noises though.

Same here in Regent Square/Wilkinsburg. Duq Light shows 700 people affected in Wilkinsburg and over 200 in Edgewood

heard that too. wtf.

Your assessment wasn’t fair because the county used a biased inflation adjustment and that’s why they lost the lawsuit over assessments recently. The high millage rate is not really relevant to this issue and the lawsuit. There are plenty of other conversations about the high millage rates and the state lost a recent lawsuit about school funding so that might change in the future. What do you think is a fair way to fund schools?

This is an interesting question. You may get better information from a linguist, though. Perhaps r/linguistics can help?

Aurora gunna make us proud - all yinz will see!

Both should be reassessed at the same time otherwise the system is unequal unless adjusted for inflation properly

But what if you sell it to them for $150k but it’s “really” worth $180k?

Gifts of equity and seller concessions happen all over the place.

Penny more, penny less becomes less of a good standard real quick.

Right, like I said reassessments do need to happen and that is a tricky issue. But houses that have just sold should be easy to assess.

live love pittsburgh

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Any open market sale should be close enough. I mean obviously if you sell it to your friend or family member for $1 that shouldn't count.

Ah opinionated journalists, nice.

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Sorry, what’s your point? I absolutely got a huge but fair reassessment. But if fair tax rates were combined with regular reassessments of all property owners we wouldn’t have this atrociously unfair system.

In California you can lock in your property taxes in perpetuity or even transfer them to another property. It’s ridiculous.

Irresponsible framing- these decisions were made back in September, so the headline is a bit click-baity. Bad WESA.

It’s not equal taxation though based on how they screw with the common level ratio

Another cool trick is real estate developers use ground leases and creative corporate structures to avoid transfer taxes

I’ll second Carmella’s as well solid place excellent cocktail and spirits list the food was good but not fantastic. Hail Boognish!

I love that all the brightest minds of our generation have been wasted trying to:

A. Sell ads on the internet and

B. re-invent trains but worse