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Harrisburg Council Remains Undeterred

BY: Ryan Holeywell | October 13, 2011

Mark Schwartz, the attorney handling the Harrisburg, Pa., bankruptcy filing, insists that the city council made the right move when it voted Tuesday night to seek Chapter 9 protection.

He believes that a bankruptcy judge will help remove some of the politics from a debate that's become something of a turf war between state and local leaders.

Read more of Governing's interview with Schwartz in this blog post.

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Ryan Holeywell

Ryan Holeywell is a staff writer at GOVERNING.

E-mail: rholeywell@governing.com
Twitter: @ryanholeywell

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