As the parent of a high-school junior, it's hard not to be concerned with the rising cost of a good college education. Now, as if higher learning doesn't already cost enough, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is proposing a 1 percent tax on college tuition, hoping to raise about $16 million a year, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, to close a shortfall in the city's pension fund and help aid the struggling Carnegie Library system. This proposed college education "privilege tax" would be paid on tuition only by students who attend post-secondary schools in the city, including colleges, universities, art, business and culinary schools.
All ten schools represented by the Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education have joined together to oppose the major's plan, Read more...
Over 100,000 people are expected to fill the streets of downtown Pittsburgh on Friday, November 20 for Pittsburgh's 49th annual Light Up Night celebration, which celebrates the city's dramatic skyline with an evening of holiday activities.Thousands more are expected to gather at Station Square for concerts, shopping, and festivities, and atop Mount Washington to enjoy the beautiful vistas of office buildings aglow with lights. Get the scoop on the evening events (including this year's new bridge party!), tree lightings, holiday window unveilings, concerts and the spectacular fireworks finale with our guide to