City Debt Concern for Merger, Inside Game Mayor Says

A recent article in the Tribune-Review highlights concerns that area legislators have regarding the massive debt that the City of Pittsburgh would bring to a merger with Allegheny County. Local elected leaders Ravenstahl and Onorato have made it their repsonsibility to convince the legislators to support their cause:

“We don’t see it as dead at all,” Ravenstahl said Friday. “The reality is, no matter what the county executive and I say, we are waiting for Harrisburg to give us the right to do that. It’s kind of an inside-baseball, elected official-to-elected official thing.”

Ravenstahl’s words allude to the lack of public input regarding this effort and the lack or regard for it. Public discourse on the subject has been largely unsupportive, which may be the motivation behind this.