{"id":249484,"date":"2026-07-22T16:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249484\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:22:07","slug":"slippery-rock-pennsylvania-wipes-out-100-of-public-debt-without-raising-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249484\/","title":{"rendered":"Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania wipes out 100% of public debt without raising taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">\n              Slippery Rock, Pa., Mayor Jondavid \u2018JD\u2019 Longo explains how he eliminated 100% of its public debt without raising taxes and whether other communities can replicate the strategy on \u2018Varney &amp; Co.\u2019\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">Jondavid &#8216;JD&#8217; Longo, Mayor of Slippery Rock, PA, details his borough&#8217;s success in eliminating nearly $1 million in public debt since 2018. Mayor Longo highlights achieving this milestone without raising property taxes and by expanding constituent services while reducing business fees. He attributes the success to fiscal responsibility and keeping government out of the way of economic development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slippery Rock, Pa., Mayor Jondavid \u2018JD\u2019 Longo explains how he eliminated 100% of its public debt without raising&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-249484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}