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"City tax on tickets unevenly applied to arts"

What a group pays depends on its purpose and, surprisingly, whether it even knows of the educational exemption. 

$4 million in RAD cash averted '94 Pittsburgh Symphony strike

In the fall of 1994, Mayor Tom Murphy and Allegheny County Commissioner Tom Foerster made an unusual promise to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra: $4 million in public money would be provided to help the orchestra avert a strike by its musicians.