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Every other week, we post a survey question in our news briefs. Here are a few of the questions that drew the most responses in the past half-year. 

Easttown Township supervisors recently commissioned a revenue study on the potential impact of a local earned income tax (EIT). After reviewing the data and hearing from residents, supervisors voted 3-2 to abandon plans for an EIT in 2024. But the ...

Municipal codes cover a lot of ground — from regulating how tall apartment buildings can be, down to providing instructions on how many minutes tattoo artists must boil the nail file they use to clean their hands. (It’s 15 minutes in ...

HUD's 203(k) program enables homebuyers and homeowners to finance both the purchase (or refinancing) of a house and the cost of its rehabilitation through a single mortgage, or to finance the rehabilitation of their existing home. More information ...

Ambler Borough is considering a proposed residential resale inspection ordinance. The proposed ordinance includes required inspections of certain items prior to the transfer of a property, including:sewer lateralselectrical certificationcurb, ...

Update 6/16/2023: The school board voted unanimously on June 15 to simply divide the $740,000 among all 8,431 property owners. Each property owner in the borough will receive an $88 reduction on their tax bill as a rebate. Read the Pottstown ...

School districts are crafting budgets for the 2023-2024 school year. Much of the timeline centers around Act 1, a 2006 state law that sets a maximum tax increase for each school district each year. Districts can exceed their caps by asking voters to ...

Warminster Municipal Authority requires a certification request, a property inspection and an application for service for all sales or transfers of property in its service area, including deed transfers and $1 sales. The inspection is in addition to ...

Voter turnout tends to plummet in municipal elections, unless there's an exciting special election on the ballot alongside the local offices. But municipal elections like the ones we're having in 2023 can have a big impact on people's lives — ...

Realtors and real estate brokers across southeastern Pennsylvania have begun receiving notices from the law firm Goehring, Rutter & Boehm (GRB Law) announcing they are working on behalf of the City of Philadelphia “to discover businesses ...