County Executive, Judge In Assessment Standoff
Call it a standoff between senior Judge Stanton Wettick and Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald over property assessments.
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Call it a standoff between senior Judge Stanton Wettick and Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald over property assessments.
KDKA Radio's Mike Pintek talks to political analyst Bill Green the day after the New Hampshire primary.
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KDKA Radio's Mike Pintek is joined in studio with Pittsburgh City District 5 Councilman Corey O'Connor.
The judge who ordered the 2012 property assessments is now ordering county administrators in charge of assessments to listen to him and not Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald.
KDKA Radio's Mike Pintek discusses Allegheny County reassessments with Jake Haulk, president of the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy.
Judge R. Stanton Wettick issued a ruling early this afternoon that Allegheny County must use the 2012 property assessment values.
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald's cancellation of informal assessment hearings caught some by surprise at the county assessment office. "I don't like it and it's not fair," said one taxpayer who showed for a cancelled hearing.
Don Driscoll, the attorney representing the homeowners who sued to have the reassessments, asked Judge R. Stanton Wettick to hold Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald in contempt of court.
Throw out those assessments. At least that is what Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald says.
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald says he's throwing out the reassessed property values and suggests homeowners do the same.
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An Allegheny County judge is considering postponing the implementation of the recent property reassessments, which have caused so much controversy. A hearing on the issue was held this morning in court.
Robert Mangino was joined in the studio by Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald.
